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Manhattan Bagel

4.3 (208 reviews)
Closed • 6:00 am - 3:00 pm
Updated 2 months ago

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Moderate noise
Casual
Dogs allowed
Good for groups

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Neal E.

First time visiting Manhattan Bagel... Visited on a Tuesday morning. Ordered the Nova Lox (Lox & Bagel) on a Garlic Bagel - and a bottle of water. Food came up quickly. They delivered it to my table. The whole thing was damn tasty - although I did not detect any capers. The one thing I will ding them on - there was no fresh dill on the Nova Lox - fresh dill really elevates a Lox & Bagel offering. Service was good. Paid with Apple Pay. #ManhattanBagel

French toast sausage with egg and cheese
Jennifer H.

Their bagels are amazing. Food is great, service is prompt, ambiance is a mom and pop shop / hole in the wall. They have beverage options and coffee.

Smokehouse brisket egg sandwich on a jalapeno cheddar bagel
Pree C.

Ambiance was empty, cold, but did not look too uncomfortable. First time ordering and ordered the smokehouse brisket egg sandwich. It was a decent amount of meat and the egg was cooked nicely. It was a little greasy where it dropped a little, but everything was tasty to include the bagel. Better than Panera. Is was almost $11 for the sandwich. I would go back to try something else. It was not busy when I went on a Monday around 1pm, so the service was fast.

Janelle E.

We have been coming here for years. I love that their bagels and cream cheese are fresh and service is quick. They have ample seating inside and outside. It does get pretty busy on the weekends, but the wait is never too long. My favorite is things to order are the cheddar bagel with chives cream cheese, and the chocolate chip bagel with strawberry cream cheese. I like their breakfast sandwiches as well. I often get a bacon, egg and cheese on a plain bagel.

Maitrayee D.

We love their bagels . At school we get it all the time .After toasting and adding their variety of cream cheese it's yummy .Bagels are soft and always fresh .

Steak egg and cheese on jalepeno cheddar

Long overdue review! I've been coming to Manhattan Bagel for over 10 years and the quality has never changed, always consistent and delicious. My go-to is the steak, egg & cheese on a jalapeño cheddar bagel... chef's kiss. I've tried other sandwiches too and they're solid, but nothing tops grabbing my usual before a hike and taking a chicken salad croissant to go. After coming back from a 5 month trip, my first stop was here. The owner's warm smile, the kind staff, and how clean the place always is keeps me coming back. Manhattan Bagel will forever be a favorite. Highly recommend!

Bacon, Egg, Cheese, Plain Bagel
Kaelyn K.

I can see how orders get mistaken here as their system for ordering during busy times seems like a mom and pop shop. You have one person take your order, the same person cooks and delivers you the meal when finished. They do not communicate with the cash register, so it is an honor system when you tell them your order. It was extremely busy but there was ample seating. Many people were grabbing their orders and taking them to go. They have plenty of bagels to select and a large menu. It was dark inside, which made it a little difficulty to read the menu. Overall our bagel sandwiches came out correct and were delicious. I knocked a star because the hash browns tasted like they sat under a light ready for a while. They certainly didn't taste very fresh... they were hard on the edges and squishy on the inside. I would definitely stick to the bagels/sandwiches they have to make fresh.

Already blew through the first half!
Martha V.

Such good bagels here. I always get the same: veggie cream cheese with lettuce and tomato on an everything bagel. So yummy!

Spinach bacon croissant
Patrick M.

After seeing its high ratings, I visited this bagel shop, but my overall experience didn't quite meet my expectations. The atmosphere was clean, though some areas showed signs of aging. The service was decent. I tried a spinach bacon croissant, which was satisfactory but not particularly remarkable, and the marble pound cake tasted as expected. The machine-brewed coffee was standard and mediocre; I believe it could benefit from a wider selection. Overall, I felt the prices were a bit high considering the quality I received.

Side of over processed tasting cheez wiz like vegetable cream cheese.
Tanya B.

Ordered for the first time because I saw the reviews online and I am highly disappointed. Growing up in FL and having perfect bagels every time is what I am used to so I didn't have high hopes for this place but wanted to believe the reviews were accurate. I ordered a toasted everything bagel with turkey bacon,egg, and Jack cheese. They write orders on paper and don't communicate to each other what the orders are, so there are mistakes and my husband had to correct them three times. The bagel is soggy and not toasted at all like I had ordered (this is not a special request and is part of their normal menu item; in fact the first word of this item is "toasted"). The seasoning on the bagel is little to none in some places and overly seasoned with horrible salt to sesame to onion ratio. I felt like I was biting into pure salt on one end and nothing on the other. They were supposed to put cream cheese on the sandwich as well as a side of cream cheese. The vegetable cream cheese that I ordered tasted like it had been squeezed from a pre made tube that I can only describe as tasting like the quality of cheez wiz, no fresh vegetables inside what so ever. They also entirely forgot the side of hash browns that I ordered and charged us anyway. The food isn't worth it, maybe I just have high standards when it comes to bagels because people here seem perfectly ok with soggy, non fresh bagels and messed up orders. They are fairly busy all the time, but that shouldn't stop them from getting orders right or putting out quality food. My local FL bagel shop is twice as busy every day and they never mess anything up, and their bagels and cream cheese are always incredibly fresh and delicious. They should hire more people for the surprising increase in customers, and update their technology to the 21st century with printable receipts which can at least get passed to the right person (I feel like I would be asking too much to say they should have computers that send the order straight to the kitchen, so at least they should have printable receipts). Only thing that I can say is that they were very kind and friendly, however that alone doesn't make me want to come back to a restaurant with terrible food and poor communication/loads of mistakes.

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Great products and friendly,efficient staff. The bagels are perfectly cooked and the spreads are great! Definitely will not disappoint!

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Prices are steep for a basic bagel shop. I'll occasionally visit but not often given that prices have risen significantly in recent years.

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It was... okay. The bagels were fresh and warm but... tough? Not terribly so but enough I can this them a 5.... 3.5+?

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13.00$ for a pork roll egg and cheese.. Manhattan begal has become absolutely ridiculous with thier prices.

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