Decided to take a different route to work today, walked past this place and figured its time for a carb fix Decor Its cute and clean, ample seating space ~ room for 15-20 around Food I had a whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and lox The bagel was soft on the inside, lightly toasted outside, and the serving of cream cheese and lox were ample. Not amazing but pretty good and definitely hit the spot Coffee was good, not watery nor sour Service Quick and friendly, no complaints read more

Pio Bagel - Fresh lox - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

This is the convenient spot that I always drop by before class to grab a bagel. They have a good variety of cream cheeses: jalapeño, avocado, strawberry, lox spread, sun dried tomato, etc. The staff is pretty friendly as well. My go-to is the everything bagel toasted with extra sun dried tomato cream cheese. So good. Minor complaint is that the price runs a little high for just a bagel and cream cheese, so I don't suggest coming here if you're expecting comparable prices to a breakfast stand. read more

Pio Bagel - Everything bagel with extra sun dried tomato cream cheese. My fave. - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Forgive me, I'm a Western New Yorker (we don't do bagels). On a recent trip to Brooklyn I decided that I just needed a Bagel. I looked at the usual spots hyped up on SM but when I saw one of those rainbow bagels through the Pio window (and the fact it was right by my hotel) I decided to give them a try. I was highly impressed. All the bagels and cream cheeses are fresh, I went with the rainbow color (total tourist move) and chive cream cheese and my partner went with the multi grain and garlic onion cream cheese. However, there were probably a dozen different types of bagels and two dozen types of cream cheese available. Both Bagels were fresh and tasty. I think we only spent $12 for two, so pretty affordable as well. When I'm in Brooklyn next I will definitely make a stop here. read more

Stopped in to get me a everything bagel with scallion cream cheese and a small vanilla cappuccino $7 damn dollars FREAKING ridiculous and what makes it even worse is that my small cup of vanilla cappuccino is a half cup when I opened it. Bad enough the price is way to high for breakfast, I could have gotten a whole breakfast meal with a orange juice, tea or coffee that comes with the meal for $7. I'm pissed off and today 10/14/16 was my last day spending my hard earned cash at this establishment. Also I work across the street and will be informing my fellow coworkers to not spend money at Pio Bagel anymore. Disappointed Customer read more

Pio Bagel - $3 for this small (half) cup of vanilla cappuccino last time these fools get any of my money! Pissed Customer - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Cute little bagel shop in downtown Brooklyn. I got a multigrain bagel with pb&j for $2.50 which i thought was a good deal. The bagel was appropriately chewy and soft inside and hard and crunchy outside. Its a little bit sensory overload when I walked in between the salads, yogurts, cupcakes, greek goodies and many other things I'm probably forgetting. I had trouble sort of figuring out the ordering- paying process but was directed in the right direction by the staff. You order to the far right side of the counter and once prepared, take your food then to the cashier to pay. They have an extensive menu up overhead but unfortunately, one of the cream cheese flavors (avocado cream cheese!) was not on the over head menu and only noted in big tubs behind glass after I had ordered. Pretty good overall, I'd return read more

I'm a regular. The staff is great and bagels are very consistent, you know what you're getting. Prices are reasonable.

Mind Blown. This was hands down the best gluten free bagel I've had. In fact this the best bagel I've had in seven years! They make them in house and are only $2. Happiest lunch in weeks. read more

Pio Bagel - Gluten free bagel heaven - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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Ordered a plain bagel toasted with NOTHING on it and it was 3 dollars. I see the employee ringing up the bagel and I see a 50 cent charge separately. I asked what is the 50 cents for and they explain it was because I got my bagel toasted. Wasn't even annoyed at the fact that I paid 3 dollars for a bagel with nothing on it but it's principle that this store is charging people 50 cents on top of their unreasonable prices to toast things. I spoke with the manager cause I just wanted to understand the reasoning as to WHY they are charging customers extra to toast something, manager tells me that the extra charge is because the toaster uses electricity, that if they use the microwave it's no extra charge. (Which makes no sense cause a microwave uses more electricity) their prices are already insane, and it's so sad seeing businesses taking advantage of their customers and this business is definitely one of them. Choosing to go down the block to another bagel shop who doesn't take advantage of their customers and not charge extra money to toast a bagel. read more

Pio Bagel is what I would consider to be an average bagel shop, compared to the several other bagel shops in NYC. They have a wide variety of bagel and cream cheese options (like the avocado cream cheese or tofu cream cheese); paired with specials/combos that are not too flexible. For example: a plain bagel with cream cheese & small coffee is $5 something. God forbid you'd like a small iced coffee instead-- there is no upcharge and they have to now charge you separately. There is a bit of line jumping involved that can make you feel a tad uncomfortable, especially when be rushed by the staff to keep the lines moving, Maybe I am just being annoying. But this place is also cash only. If I really needed a bagel, I would run inside for a rainbow bagel with cinnamon walnut cream-cheese. They have a wide variety, and worth the try. I am just saying that this is not my favorite place. read more

I would avoid this place for several reasons, but I am going to provide an unbiased review of someone who has eaten here for years despite the service deteriorating to a point of no return. The lines - the lines here are always excessive. They seem to have one or two people working the registers max while also making coffee and servicing customers. Completely inefficient. I raised this issue with an employee and she told me to speak to the manager who was eating at one of the tables. The bagels - these are cooked on premises it seems, but their consistency and chewiness is not what it used to be or compared to other bagel stores in Manhattan. Lox - again, this has deteriorated significantly as well. Overall there may not be a better bagel store in the area, so you might as well not eat the bagel, avoid the calories, and go across the street for something healthier. read more

This is my local bagel spot - very solid bagels by New York standards. It can get busy on Saturday / Sunday mornings, but they move quick, so you're generally not waiting more than 4-5 minutes for your order. And it's been a few months since they got rid of their cash-only / minimum credit card spend nonsense, and they now accept credit cards for all orders - nice upgrade, Pio. read more

A little slice of "Bagel Heaven" in an area dominated by fast food and chain eateries. It's takeout but the bagels are top notch and baked on the premises. A fine selection of schmears and toppings as well as other baked dessert goodies are here. Try the whitefish salad... nice! read more

I don't know what's going on with this place now. Used to be really good. Of course they were new. Now it's going down the hill for me. Made my order at 8:45am, it is 10:25am and nothing. I called the restaurant all I get is a busy signal. I walked to the restaurant and was told the their Internet is out. Their phone is also out. Now I have to deal with Yelp to get my money back. Not a good way to start my morning. Very irritated. read more

Quick, courteous and delicious! I'm used to a couple slices of bacon on a sandwich and this far surpassed!! Coffee was spot on. read more

I LOVE A GOOD BAGEL!! You can get not only Bagels here..,but they have a HUGE assortment of other foods and juices..,and coffee in a can. Ambiance = 8 It's a great spot for a date..,or even a group of say 4- 6 people for a lunch. The table floor plan can be adjusted easily. Food = 9 They have eveything fresh..,not packaged with mostly all their foods. I give the Bagels a 10 and the cream cheese was phenomenal! The Bagels are a good price and Sandwich SIZE is perfet. Size portions matter when you pay New York prices. Staff = 8.5 They were nice..,any questions I asked....,however it is Brooklyn. read more

I like this place, the bagels are fresh. Nice selection, great location. A bit over priced. Its mini Manhattan; aka downtown Brooklyn. My favorite sandwich is the BLT, with Turkey bacon. Apparently the Turkey bacon is an addition. Not a substitution (don't ask). Overall, I like going here, gets crowded on a Sunday. Try it. read more

I came here one morning, being around Jay St and wanting a bagel with sweet cream cheese options. I got a blueberry bagel (electric blue!) with strawberry cream cheese and took it back to my apartment. Meh. The blueberry didn't have any distinctive taste, nor did the cream cheese. With a blindfold it could have been a plain bagel with plain cream cheese quite easily. There are other, better bagel shops around- or take the subway to another. read more

Pio Bagel - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Walked in this morning. They are doing a hustling business. Service was quick and options are great. Fresh lox has just the right flavor and texture. Plus, on a toasted freshly baked bagel..... not much could be better. Hot coffee is just what it should be---good drinkable and without pretentiousness. read more

I'm so upset this morning. I've never had a problem with the food until today. I found a fly in my breakfast sandwich, which is unacceptable. I doubt if I'll be getting food from here again because this experience just turned me off. read more

I always order the same thing every time I am working in Brooklyn. The salad, with grilled chicken, corn, cranberries, almonds and avocado and the homemade granola and berries parfait. The chicken is very flavorful. They pack the salad which is awesome. Avocado is scarce which sucks! The homemade granola and berries parfait is delicious. The granola I believe they add honey to and it's awesome!!!! Delivery is super quick!! read more

Pio Bagel - Delicious homemade granola & berries parfait and a salad with grilled chicken, cranberries, corn, almonds and avocado - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Gluten free bagels are AMAZING.! My go tos are : Belly lox & cream cheese Bacon, eggs & cheese. (Toast the bagel!!) They have fresh pressed fruit/veggie justices which are so good. read more

The food is decent but no matter how busy they are there is always at least one staff member making the cream cheeses look pretty rather than helping customers. I'm always in a rush when I come here so I find this incredibly irritating. So much so that I chose to write a Yelp review for the first time in years. Their clientele are almost exclusively people headed into work or on their lunch break. None of those people value the aesthetic of the cream cheeses over their time. In the interest of full disclosure I will say the person working on the cream cheese does an excellent job. They are beautiful. I bet this person would be dope at helping customers and actually improving the business. read more

I came in and mentioned I was a first timer and didn't know how to order. Rude cash register girl redirects me to actual bagel maker. Actual bagel maker is much nicer however the bagel she made was very lukewarm like it wasn't toasted very well. I did get a lot of meat (salmon) though. For the food would have been 3.5 stars but with the rude cash register lady, I think my total experience was more like 2 stars. read more

Several of my co-workers and myself just had a very off-putting (and somewhat unexpected) experience with this establishment. Typically when we order delivery from here there is not a problem, aside from small parts of the order being messed up but that's the norm for Pio Bagel. What's so strange is that we had ordered breakfast from them earlier in the week and received everything within 20 minutes. However, this morning was a different story altogether as we waited an hour and 45 minutes for our food. You read that right; one hour and forty-five minutes. The order was placed at 9am and after an hour of not receiving the food we decided to give them a call. At this point they told us that the food was on its way and should be there in about 10 minutes. 15 minutes go by and we call again and are once again told that the food should be there in 10 minutes and this time, they were going to call the delivery person to see where he was. After another 10 minutes everyone was starting to get annoyed so we called back. This time it was a different person who answered and was giving me the run-around. We kept asking to speak to the other person who was handling the phones earlier and they just put me on hold. After about 5 minutes my patience ran out so I hung up. This was clearly a case of the restaurant forgetting to put in an order and wouldn't even have known if the customer wasn't the one to contact them about it first. We then went to start filing a complaint in GrubHub when the phone rings (it's now 10:45) and the delivery person is downstairs. Not only is it bad enough that it took nearly two hours for the food to arrive but here's the kicker; most of the order was incorrect, cold or missing. One of my colleague's entire order had been omitted from the delivery and they have the nerve to still charge us for this!! At that point we weren't even going to bother sending the incorrect items back as we didn't feel like waiting another 2 hours for our food to maybe arrive the way it was supposed to. So now we're on GrubHub finishing up the complaint and after all of that we're told that only 50% of the order is going to be refunded...."No" says I. The credit card company will be contacted and the transaction cancelled. This lateness and negligence is inexcusable for a simple order which was delivered correctly and in a timely manner mere days before. While we may not be charged for the transaction, it still doesn't put any food in the stomach of my colleague who is now behind me, hangrily tending to paperwork because he didn't have anything for breakfast and decided to just wait until lunchtime to get food. You really dropped the ball on this one, Pio Bagel. Looks like we need to find a new, competent, breakfast spot. read more

for sure a four-star bagel place in New York City. The breakfast wraps, as well, are also quite good. Service is always quick, and staff are friendly. Very reasonably priced read more

Surprisingly good! Went at noon and bagels still fresh. Highly recommend if you're looking for a quick bite. Doesn't look enticing from the outside but food quality was great read more

Received a delivery for an event 30 minutes late. When I called to ask what was happening the person on the other end of the line snapped at me and hung up on me without giving an estimate regarding how long it would take for the delivery to arrive. Not to be relied upon. read more

I am so glad they opened a bagel/sandwich shop across the street from my office. It's super convenient, cheap, and quick! The staff in here are very friendly and quick at what they do. I come here a lot for a bagel breakfast and I love the array of cream cheese options available. There's not much seating area, so the best option would be to just grab and go. read more

This place used to be great. Cream cheese was always fresh and they put lots of them in bagles. However recently it got worse. They put very little cheese and bagles are often half burn. Today I and my friend got different stuff and we could see both of them have pickle like flavor which could mean it's not fresh. Also they seemed use same spoon to put stuff into bagles that can potentially cause some serious allergic issue. Hopefully they read this and get better. read more

Bagel and cream cheese was great, but the long line during weekend morning moving slowly and getting charged just to have bagels toasted was a turn off. Staff wasn't that friendly, although they had plenty of bagel options. read more

Best value for your BEC and other breakfast foods in the neighborhood. The bagels are fresh, the sandwiches are well made and everything including the coffee is a $1-2 cheaper than nearby bagel places. The people complaining about their orders must have recently moved in to the city. If you're at the store, talk to the deli men like people and articulate what you want, and online use the notes to add your instructions and be specific. I've never gotten a wrong order from them. read more

Came here with my friend at 1048 am on a Saturday morning, july 20th. I asked for the bagel special, it's my first time here, the one with the coffee. I didn't realize it was only plain cream cheese..the guy yelled at me when i asked for walnut raisen cream cheese. I was going to continue waiting in line..but i am learning the healthy art boundaries and recognize i dont want to be somewhere where i am treated like crap and yelled at for not knowing the bagel special, only offered cream cheese. read more

Gluten free bagels that seem unbelievable! Warning: if you have celiacs you may have to be concerned about cross contamination. This bagel place has regular bagels...and house made gluten-free bagels that seem to good to be true. They also have regular cream cheese, tofu cream cheese and all the regular bagel store stuff. I do not have celiacs, I am just intolerant to wheat and dairy, so this place is an inexpensive dream come true. They usually just have plain gluten-free bagels, but I have called and ordered a dozen, half plain gf and half sesame gf, the sesame ones were just as good if not better. :) read more

Got the jalapeno bagel with two eggs for $3.27 with tax. I think that was an awesome price for this. Bagels are tasty and fresh. Also have good specials. I would recommend going here instead of starbucks/DD read more

My review is only for the two different kinds of bagels I had from here (I mean their name is Pio BAGELS!). My experience with the bagels can be described as a o-k. But sadly, I was disappointed. Not many places around here that have a variety of cream cheese to choose from. But the cream cheese lacked flavor! The scallion cream cheese and cinnamon raisin walnut cream cheese were very creamy and smooth...but where's the filling? I would expect to be able to have good bites of scallion/raisin and walnuts. The cream cheese are just slightly flavored is all. Also, the bagels....are a bit stiff shall I say? Not the doughy soft bagels I love to take a bite into. Overall, not bad; but for the price maybe go somewhere else. read more

Are the kidding me. I came in to buy a regular bagel for $1.50 and then the guy asked if i wanted it toasted. When I walked to the register and paid for my bagel. The lady got mad at me cause my bagel was warm. AND THEN CHARGED ME AN EXTRA $1.25 FOR TOASTING. I AINT NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE, AND THE AMOUNT OF ATTITUDE ALSO? Pio has really gone down hill, never coming back read more

I came across this bagel store as I was walking down Downtown Brooklyn. I always like to get bagels from places where they are baked on premise. They offer a great selection of bagels along with a variety of cream cheeses. My favorite by far is the whole wheat bagel with Avocado cream cheese. They also offer many other food selections besides bagels such as salads, smoothies, sandwiches, and shakes. Its definitely worth stopping in and trying one of their fresh bagels. read more

Pio Bagel - Different selections of cream cheese and tuna - Bagels Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

How does this stupid place charge $8 for a burnt bagel with BLT? Burnt food is a serious danger to health as body can't digest and absorb it. Waiting in line and the preparation of the food takes forever. The worst part is there is no wifi. The employees are loud and inattentive. The TV service is terrible. This place reeks. They have can sodas which contradict the healthy vibe that they give with their gluten free bagels and salad bars. Everything stinks in this store because no one cleans after themselves. The food quality and pricing is terrible. I WILL NEVER COME BACK HERE AGAIN! read more

Hands down the best gluten-free bagel I've ever had. Plus they are efficient & get your order right. Love Pio!

There's a HAIR in my breakfast sandwich. I'm so done with Pio Bagel besides the fact that they charge you 5.00 for a sandwich and for you to find a hair in you're food is mind blowing. Like I don't understand how does ur work aren't they supposed to wear nets. This is highly disgusting. Now I gotta throw away my money. read more