Kettleman’s Bagel

Best Montréal style bagel in Ottawa! Watching the bagel production line is fascinating experience, I would greatly recommend them to any true bread lover.

My parents have been coming sine the mid 1990’s, and I have fond memories from my childhood.
Everytime I come to Ottawa we make a trip to Kettleman’s.
Hand down best bagels in town!
Furthermore, the owners work there most days, so it’s nice to know your supporting a locally run place.
The staff are very friendly, and the food is reasonably priced.
A must visit for any sandwich or bagel enthusiast!

CBC melt. Messy and delicious. The food prep can be a bit slow with one person on the counter but many distractions to gaze upon as you wait. This location has debit & credit, parking in the front and back. Liquor license. WiFi. Huge windows to sit and people watch or view traffic. Newspapers. TV. As a former resident of Montréal these are the next best woodfire bagels to be had in the NCR.

I have fallen in love with Kettlemans bagels– the breakfast bagel is outrageously good, the coffee is hot and tasty. I love getting the bagels still warm out of the wood burning oven!

I have been visiting Kettleman’s for over ten years for their warm and fresh Montréal bagels.
They are immaculately clean, consistent in service and carry the expected Montréal Style Jewish foods. Nice Challah too!

I went to Kettlemans on Carling for lunch today, waited 15 for my breakfast bagel. I was watching the girl start to make it, she dropped my laktes in a pile of dirt, bacon grease and whatever else was on the bottom of the microwave, slid it across this mess and put it back with my sandwich to serve me. Needless to say I got my money back, also I spoke with the manager and she said the reason the girl did that was because she was new. It was one of grossest things I’ve seen a server do. The shop on Bank st is amazing, they are like two totally different places. I will never go back to the one on Carling Ave and I will be forever grateful I saw it happen because I may have eaten it if I didn’t. The horror.

Awesome wood fired bagels very unique and very good! Fresh orange juice best ever– grind right in front of you. Will be back when I’m in town

Love their bagels and awesome spreads! Tastiest in the city! Don’t buy too many if you don’t plan on finishing them within two days. They become hard after about two days. Tasty though!

I walked in for lunch and had their special which is smoked salmon cream cheese capers and red onions on your choice of bagel. An older man served me and he was very nice the other employees seemed spacey. I think it’s just lack of experience with customers. It wasn’t bad but a little over priced, with a water it was $ 10 and change. I will go back and try something else but not my fav place to lunch.

The bagels here are great! I wish I could say the same for the service. I give any establishment my three and three treatment; you get three strikes and then after three strikes I won’t go back for three months but only if there is something redeeming about the place. In the case of Kettlemans they have great tasty bagels and they are in my neighbourhood so I keep trying. For the past year they have had nine strikes because of the very bad service. They used to have good staff but recently they can’t seem to get an order correct and have at times been outright rude to me.
If this continues, this place will be on the Never Return list.

One of the best Bagels I have ever had I will be going here Tommorow for some more

Love this place for a good and inexpensive place to take my boys for breakfast on the weekends. Three chocolate bagels toasted with butter and a half Litre of chocolate milk is about $ 7. That feeds us well enough and is way better than taking them to the golden arches. As mentioned the bagels are not like Tim hortons which is more like bread with a hole in it. These are what I consider real bagels.

Since moving to the Carlingwood area Kettleman’s has become a regular spot for lunch — and I’m digging it!
While other mentioned the atmosphere isn’t great, I actually really enjoy it. The view of Carling might be rather dull, but there’s lots of seating space and windows which makes it one of my favourite places to people watch :)
I’m a sandwich girl and Kettleman’s does not disappoint. My favourite lunch order is the chicken salad on an onion bagel. In straight up bagelness, my favourites are all dressed, cranberry lemon and chocolate. (Obviously. It’s a CHOCOLATE BAGEL!)
It should be noted that they also have a delicious pizza bagel and tasty baked treats.
Kettleman’s also caters (would anyone judge me if I had a wedding buffet of strickly Kettleman’s bagels?) and has won the «Best Bagel Award» from the Ottawa Sun for EIGHT years in a row. They’re doing something right!
Note: If you’re into massive, fluffy bagels like the kind at Timmy’s or the grocery store, readjust your expectations. You’ll be getting a thinner, denser Montréal-​style bagel at this joint.

Great bagels! The parking lot is tough to navigate, dinning area is not inviting, and they don’t heat the building above 15 degrees but still worth the trip. Highly recommend grabbing a dozen or a bagel sandwich at lunch.

I believe this is one of two locations in Ottawa, the other being on Bank St. but both places offer the same delicious oven fired bagels!
They tout themselves as having ‘Montréal style bagels’ and while they are very good and probably the closest you’re going to get to a Montréal style bagel in Ottawa, in my opinion, they are still a little breadier than say a Fairmont bagel.
In addition to a great variety of standard bagels they also have a couple of interesting combinations on offer like the blueberry cheese or chocolate cheese bagels!
Though the atmosphere is lacking somewhat in the sense that it faces on Carling and doesn’t have a cosy feel about it, during the busy lunch hour it is a great place to come for a good and inexpensive salad and/​or sandwich combo.
It also offers plenty of indoor and outdoor seating, parking on site and a computer terminal with free internet for customers.