I felt like a Sunday drive-thru breakfast. (Jun 2026). Einstein Brothers Bagels is easy to get to on westbound US-40 Baltimore National Pike just a little west of US-29. There's plenty of parking, and even a small umbrella-ed outdoor dining patio. They have an $8 breakfast bagel with coffee special. You can choose a among a few variations and a few add-ons. I got a sesame bagel with mild sausage, lightly-seasoned egg, and light cheese. The bagel was fresh. The flavor of the sandwich was good. The large coffee, I chose dark roast, was very, very hot and had a good rich flavor. I ordered in their app. The drive-through wait was pretty long for having only two card ahead of me, but not really too long. However, the bagel sandwich was just warm, not piping hot. Next time i'd order in-person so the sandwich would be hot. And i'd get a double or even triple sleeve for that hot hot coffee! read more

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Amazing bagels with unfortunately terrible service. My husband and I are new to the area and have ordered delivery 3 separate times in the past week because we normally love this bagel chain. There has not been a single time we have ordered from this location and the staff gave us everything we PAID for and was on the receipt. First time they didn't give us any of our sides with our meals. Second time they didn't send coffee we ordered. Then there is today. We only received one bagel and the other one is nowhere to be seen. Won't be ordering from Einstein bro bagels anymore.. read more

Refreshing! The restaurant is neat and welcoming. I noticed the drink case and love that blueberry lemonade was waiting, covered with a dated sticker. My selection, the Maple house was as sticky as displayed and quite tasty . Mmmhm! My husband enjoyed his sandwich too! The staff were efficient at the register and attentive in the dining room. My husband's choice of coffee was empty and they simply slid a full one forward! Nice! read more

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Ordered the farmhouse egg sandwich for breakfast and within a couple hours had to make a run to the bathroom. Food poisoning. It's now been 9 hours and I'm still getting sick. They must've left the food out or something. Regret eating bacon. read more

We haven't been to Einstein's in forever and I was very hesitant based on the negative reviews. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. We ordered on the App and our food was hot and ready when we arrived. Hubby and I both enjoyed our breakfast sandwiches. The cashiers seemed polite and efficient and there was an employee making sure the coffee and creamers were full. We will be back. read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

Representing the letter for 2023 is E is for Einstein Bros. I've been to this Einstein a few times. This location is large with plenty of seating. Bagels were pretty good, usually getting a bagel sandwich. I went a couple of times in 2010's. I went in April 2023, and they still had never brought the dining inside back at any of the stores, which was annoying. I ended up eating outside, it was sunny but windy and a bit chilly with the wind, but I managed. My girlfriend & I went in April 2025, and thankfully the inside dining area was back open. It was a madhouse in there. While we weren't in a big hurry, we didn't have that much time. Line was long, and I said maybe it'll be faster if I order from my phone, which is annoying. It was faster in the end as we got the order done before getting to the front of the line, but we waited 15-20 minutes. They were trying, but it was just they were slammed. Bagel sandwich was pretty good, but not as good as I remembered. read more

We visit this location every weekend when we're visiting the area from DC. The wait can be a little long due to the drink orders. My issue how the person made our drinks that last two times. She may be a new employee because she's not very efficient. My spouse and I order the same drink with the exception he may request a shot of espresso in his "caramel cold brew shake". The first weekend we had her, our drinks were exactly the same and still she blended them one at a time instead of making the drinks together. She has blended them separately two weeks in a row. In fact when we came in this past Saturday, we were hoping she wasn't tasked with drinks. We stood their wondering why can't she mix two shakes in the blender, pour one in the cup and then add the espresso to blender for quick blend for the 2nd drink. This last visit, once she made the second drink, she ended up pouring out at least 8ozs. Lastly, the consistency of the drinks haven't been very shake like since this person has been making the drinks. **On another note, I'd like give kudos to one of the cashiers. I don't know her name but she is an older light skinned African American woman that ALWAYS puts a smile on our face or give us a belly laugh 9:00 in the morning.** read more

This location has ample parking and indoor seating. The line moved quickly and the staff were pleasant enough. The bagels were fresh and soft inside with a perfect 'crisp' exterior. I loved the Florentine bagel with turkey sausage, egg and cheddar cheese. Just like an omelet. It was not drippy or messy so perfect for the commute. The butter bagels and coffee are also good if you not looking for the larger breakfast. It can be hard to find excellent bagels at most coffee shops, but here you can get both! read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Turkey sausage, egg and cheddar on a spinach bagel - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

Customer service is horrible. I get things can get overwhelming but if a fire starts learn to put it out and not take it out on the customers. Half of them aren't paying attention and the energy is filled with attitude. Bathrooms has been broken for months read more

Lied to. So my wife ordered a drink and sandwich to go on Mother's Day. I get there and see her drink but no sandwich. I get in line to order some bagels to go and they are running out of bagels. I asked how long to for new bagels and was lied to as she says 1 hour. Then I asked about my wife's sandwich not being ready and specifically is the problem because you ran out of sesame bagels and was told no it was coming. Asked another person and was told it was coming. The head person then yells out that uber and DoorDash drivers have to wait cause it will be 5 minutes for new bagels. She then says loudly that if you have a order ahead order let her know and so I tell her my order was to be ready a while ago and she says she doesn't care what time it was suppose to be ready and that they indeed did not have a sesame bagel. After being very dismissive and insincere as she said she didn't know who I spoke to earlier I pointed the person out to her and said loudly I want you to know that I was LIED to and that I didn't appreciate that. 2 lies. Unnecessary. It's just bagels. read more

excellent staff and service, I go there nearly every single day and the interaction is one of the highlights of my day not to mention the delicious bagels they have, my personal favorite is the cinnamon sugar bagel with a cold vanilla shake that I recommend trying if one wants to visit. read more

The absolute worst customer service I've ever experienced. All the employees are so rude even if they messed up an order

We skipped the drive through line because it was super long and parked to go inside. I waited for 15 minutes to order. I interrupted the staff to say...hello, is anyone working this register to take orders. I was told they are trying to get the drive through line down. Note to all...wait in the drive through line and don't waste time and energy going inside. My husband was in the car waiting for me and said the line cleared twice in the drive through while you were inside. We should have just gone to the drive through because we were in a hurry. I will moving forward. Note to owner- maybe put a note on the door saying we serve drive through customers first. read more

We went there last Sunday for a quick breakfast and the place was a mess. They were shutting kitchen down an hour before close. They were out of half of the menu items. Bagels and sausage were being microwaved. The bathrooms were dirty and we had to wipe off a table so we could sit down. The staff asks you to add a tip and then they forget our drink for 20 minutes?!? Terrible and not reflective of the brand! read more

definitely not the best bagel place i've been to, however it was not too bad. contrary to everyone else here, the service wasn't too bad. overall it was not the best, but not the worst. read more

Had a large takeout order for a party. When I arrived Sunday morning at the agreed time everything was packaged and ready to go. Since I use a walker Antonio carried everything to the car. Coffee was hot, bagels were fresh and sliced perfectly and every one enjoyed the party. read more

It's pretty run down. There are no lox on the menu. Can't understand how it's a bagel place without lox or lox spread. Other food just so so and just seems like the company gave up. read more

So much more satisfying then Panera.... moist bagels, perfect cream cheese!!! Soooooo many flavors, combos, yummy coffee, even flavors like cinnamon and vanilla hazel nut - free refills !!! Short waiting, because service is so fast!!! I'm so full, happy, and at peace when I leave here!!! The best!!! Forget Starbucks and Dunkin!!! Fan for life!! God bless these Bros P.S. sodas and teas also like passion mango read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - baklava & apple fritter had a baby- Yummy oozy buttery sweet syrup- the cinnamon walnut strudel, pizza bagel, ancient grain w/honey almond - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

The service in this location wasn't acceptable. One of the coffee flavors was out, so I told one employee it's empty and asked him how long it would take. He didn't even turn to look at me. I had to ask him twice, and his answer was, 'it will take what it takes'. Now I understand why they offered free bagels for just submitting the review. read more

The drive thru is soooooooooooooo slow. You have to have at least 30 minutes if you want to get anything

The bagel sandwiches here are adequate but the individual bagels with cream cheese often do not come with enough cream cheese. This amount seems to have been cut back over the last few years. They also have not restored a dine-in environment since Covid. Absurd. read more

I ordered on the Einstein app and got a plain bagel with 1 egg ,bacon, and cheese but they gave me a raisin bagel with 2 eggs so all of it tasted like cinnamon . Also the food was cold read more

They make great bagels! My family's go-to bagels (2-3 times a week) are the Garden Avocado on a plain bagel and the plain toasted bagel with butter. Download the app to get rewards. The team is very professional and patient with customers. read more

You people taking pictures of the bathroom are freaking jackasses. You're probably the only piece of crap in the extremely busy bagel shop....Piss off read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Crispy Chicken & Tater #1 Breakfast Sandwich in the world. - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

This restaurant is filthy! They never wash off the tables, the floor hasn't been adequately cleaned in who knows how long - and the bathroom is even worse. [Can only imagine how gross the kitchen area must be]. Staff could care less....I saw a young girl wiping off the trays for their next use...with a disgustingly dirty rag. I commented on it - and she just shrugged. I asked to speak to a manager, who was unfortunately too busy to come over and talk to a customer. An older lady jumped in and said: "it's just old coffee on the rag". So I guess once you wipe-up several spills of coffee, that rag is perfect for also wiping other things without it being rinsed or sanitized. Pretty sure there are numerous health code violations going on here! (Here's a suggestion - how about using individual sanitized wipes like Chic fill A) - even if you leave them out for the "guest" to do it themselves!!!!! The one-star rating is for the quality of the bagels - you just have to go order through drive-thru if you have any health standards. read more

Food: 0/10 Service: 0/10 Coffee: 0/10 Bagels and Cream Cheese: 5/10 Nothing about this restaurant is good, except what they're known for, bagels. The cream cheese is good as well. Other menus items are bad, coffee is bad, and the customer service is horrible. read more

If I could give this place zero stars, I would. The drive thru took about 30-40 minutes on a Sunday morning. The food we got were all overcooked. Customer service was bad because the employee that was taking our order kept asking us "is that it?" after every item we order including a drink. None of the employees seem to care much about customer service. It's just not worth the wait for below average food. I've been to other locations but this location is by far, the worst. read more

The cleanliness of this location is lacking. I've been here before but have never spent too much time other than ordering food on a busy Saturday morning or going through the drive thru before work in the morning early mornings. Food (Bagels) are typically okay not anything super special. Although the smears are really good. Coffee is typically fresh in the morning. This particular visit I went to use the restroom before ordering and it was a terrible decision. This bathroom needs the health department. No restaurant or store should have a bathroom that looks like this. And this can't be blamed on a morning/weekend rush I went at 3pm on a Monday afternoon. From the looks of things this bathroom had not been cleaned in a very long while. No bathroom can accumulate this amount of dirt in a few days. I couldn't even order after seeing this. I can't imagine their food practices if they aren't cleaning the restroom. I hope the employees do something about this to provide a cleaner environment for customers and prevent further loss of business . I can't be the only person who has seen this and decided not to order due to this. read more

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I stopped here because it was close to my destination and I needed to grab a quick breakfast. Ordered a spinach and bacon bagel. On toasted wheat bread w butter. Lady in front of me had an error in her order. They didn't toast her bagel and something else. I'm not really sure what else was wrong, because I overheard the conversation. Well. That should have been indication to check my own order. I didn't because I was in a hurry. I received a bacon egg and cheese on a wheat bagel. No butter,not toasted. There aren't a lot of menu items here. I wish they could get this right. The staff kind of rushed us through and it wasn't even that busy. read more

Stopped in on a random Friday morning, what I thought was after the morning rush. Unfortunately this was not so. You wait in line and order at one location, your order is completed in between as you wait to pay or pick up additional items at another location. The line did not move quickly, as the poor cashier at the end had to collect orders, make drinks and take money. While on the line, other workers are offering to help someone who is clearly behind on completing orders, she profusely declines the help; of course, despite a line of customers waiting for food. This system made no sense to me. My food came out before I could pay. I had to wait in line having to wait with the food which you hope would be warm....once it is actually time to eat it. I chose the everything bagel with salmon, cream cheese, and all the fixins. The bagel was fair to middling at best. I definitely had better bagels and a better salmon sandwich. There was an abundance of cream cheese and IMO an minimal amount of salmon. It just didn't match. The busyness of the location, and the inability of the staff to keep up, in addition to fair to middling bagel...nah I don't think I'll be back. read more

At this point, it's best to give your employees severance and close. This review comes not from one bad experience. Yesterday's attempt to be serviced was the THIRD time this location proved to me that they should be closed. It's best to free the good workers and let them find positions with a business that will take customer service seriously. Allow them to go and grow somewhere else. One can understand inventory being slight during this pandemic, but you were failing before the pandemic. Long lines, uptight workers, and slim pickings = closing. Maybe next year, you can hire an Operations Manager who can help you plan and perform well, or at least decently. Perhaps next year or in your next venture, you can take some training courses from Chick-Fil-A and learn how to process your lines. We all can grow if we listen. Close. read more

Ordered a plain bagel with cream cheese + an iced latte. The drink came out way before my bagel did; the wait was too long in my opinion. Yes, it was pretty busy Sunday around 11am, so everyone's waiting long for their food. This is actually my first time trying out Einstein Bagels; the food and latte tasted good. Besides the long wait, they said they ran out of the milk (skim) I wanted; that was a bummer. I think next time I come, I'll try other sandwiches on their menu at a non-peak hour... read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Iced latte, toasted bagel - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

I got moldy fruit cup. Their QC could be improved for sure. When I pointed it out to the cashier, he basically took it back without saying anything, hang around and talked to another coworker. Then he probably realized that I still stand there and wait for a response. He looked around and got me another fruit cup, saying "here you go", like it is part of regular business. I will probably not come back any time soon. The sandwich is just OK. read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Moldy strawberry - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

This location is far to have a good breakfast. When I get to this location, there is always a line and a long wait to get my order. Severna Park is a better location. Even with the line, the service is more organized and faster. read more

I would give zero stars if I could. This place just gets increasingly worse. Seems as though they never have enough staff and half the staff is either rude or incompetent. They were messing up my regular order on average once a week and one day the girl MAKING my coffee handed me a COLD coffee-meaning I don't think she added In the hot coffee. She must have been under the influence of something because you could feel the cup was stone cold when she handed it to me. Wait lines are atrocious for such abysmal customer service and overpriced food which leaves a lot to be desired. Don't waste your money or time. read more

I came to this bagel shop this morning in a rush. The drive-thru girl was cavalier, disinterested and arrogant. The line was taking so long. I asked the manager, Antonio, what the problem was with the super slow service. He sprung into action, told me the girl was new (and promised to get her up to speed). That is the way you keep a customer! He listened and solved my problem graciously. What a magnificent manager! read more

On route to my brother's SAT prep, I stopped at Einstein's because we were in a bagel kind of mood. Einstein's seems pretty popular on weekend mornings, and rightly so. I had myself a turkey BAT (bacon-avocado-tomato) sandwich on an everything bagel and it was pretty dang delicious, even though I couldn't eat it until I arrived at my destination because I was driving. I can't remember what my brother got, he but seemed to like it. Good breakfast place, for sure. It's convenient and the food is good. I was able to get in and out relatively fast, too. Always a plus. :) read more

Stopped by for a quick snack and ended up getting the farmhouse bagel with two eggs! It was delicious. Perfect pick-me up snack or lunch place. Service was pretty good too - friendly Staff! read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Bagels Near Me - Ellicott City, Maryland

Nice concept; flawed in execution. Service line could not keep pace with even a modest sized crowd (see many other Yelp reviews). Indoor air temp 62 degrees. Must be 90+ decibels of a background din that hurts the eardrums. Sitting on the dining area, I could not hear myself type this review. Breakfast fare is tasty enough, but the atmosphere detracted significantly. Bottom line is this is a fine carryout venue; pricing is fair and you do get what you pay for. On-premises eating simply is too much of a negative experience in terms of creature comforts. I'll take my hard-earned rubles, yen and dinars elsewhere. I'm done here, forever. read more

Fast service, friendly and efficient. Good location that's always busy. I've never had their coffee; only their bagel sandwiches, which are good enough to keep me coming back. One comment for Management: when specifically requesting a DOUBLE TOASTED bagel, please please do that. I ask every time for double toasted because I hate the soggy, barely warm, stick it in the oven for 10 seconds bagel. I like a little flavorful char and toast on the bagel. That's why I ask for it that way! However, even when specifically requested and emphasized, they just can't seem to get it right. The sandwich is still good, but I've asked you specifically, so why can't you get it right? It would taken additional 45 seconds to make this request happen. Why is this such an elusive commodity in bagel land? It's not a deal breaker, but now I just accept that it will be the typical, barely warm, largely untoasted bagel that I don't prefer. Sigh........ read more