Bagels & Beyond

Was in need of bagels for my pregnant wife. Was told they are pretty good.
I didn’t read their reviews till after I got home with my order. First things first, it’s not that the place is dirty. It’s run very old school like. Meaning, you can tell they don’t wear gloves when they grab certain foods, or wipe off the knife before cutting into another person’s sandwich. They don’t have bins or containers for their croissants or muffins, but little baskets with a sheet of saran-​wrap. Does that make this place bad, by all means no. Some of us out there are actually spoiled when it comes to others making our food now. If our mom or wife wanted to make us a sandwich, would we tell them to wear gloves?
Anyways, back to the review. What I disliked about my experience, was the fact that the bagels didn’t seem fresh. They were a bit hard to bite into and had a sorta bland taste. The croissant I got had a hole in it, from maybe someone’s finger. The shell was so brittle and flakey, that when I bit into it, let’s just say that I had to vacuum the rug when I was done.
Look, the place is alright for a quick bite, but after reading the reviews and experiencing a somewhat similar experience to some, I’m taking my business elsewhere.

The grill/​stove at this place wasn’t working so the guy behind the counter tried cooking the eggs for my bagel in the toaster oven. After wasting about 10 mins of my time he tried pulling the eggs out of the toaster oven, looks over realizes I’m watching this whole thing go down and then tells me he can make eggs right now. I gave it a second star because my friend and I got a pretty good laugh out of the situation.

If you like plastic in your sandwich, this is the place to go. When I told them their was plastic in my sandwich from the woman slicing the sandwich, all she could say was sorry. She didn’t even offer to replace it. Horrible costumer service and the place looks filthy.

Noooo… just not good. Bland, kind of soggy flavors, just no.
The people were nice enough, although there was an odd dynamic between the husband/​wife owner team and their employee.

I stopped in one morning about 6am. to find the proprietor sitting behind the counter half asleep and digging in his nose with his pointer finger, as I approach he pulls his finger out of his nose and asks can I help you? I’m like hum, can I have a plain bagel with nothing on it. This guy picks up a bagel with the same hand and puts it in a bag and says sixty cents. Handed him a dollar and said keep the change walked outside and threw the bagel in the garbage.
I’m Out!

Sorry, this place didn’t impress me either. I don’t know what it is, but this place looked slightly grimy, and I didn’t feel the love in the food.
I ordered a taylor ham egg n cheese on a roll. looking forward to creating the ultimate breakfast with it — TEC on a roll w/​a french vanilla coffee from Dunkin Donuts. The sandwich was bland city. Completely bland. I normally don’t eat these w/​ketchup salt n pepper but I felt the need to drown this sandwich in condiments. when I did it just tasted like ketchup salt and pepper … and that’s pretty much it. I know it doesn’t take much to mess one of these up so I’m really perplexed how this happened. maybe the quality in the ham? the bread was bland too. Sorry, in a state that prides itself in these sandwiches, why waste another tasty encounter on a place that can’t match up to the state’s rep.

I’ve only tried this place twice, once my fiancé got me a bagel with cream cheese and it was tough to chew and i definitely wasn’t thrilled even after a long night of drinking. I then tried it once more a few months later and I got a taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a bagel. I’ve never really had a TEC on a bagel that i didnt like because you really cant screw it up. well i dont know what they did but it was gross. I ate half and I couldnt even try to stomach the other half and i threw it out. with so many other great bagel spots around here, I would definitely never go back here again unless it was the last bagel place on earth. they do have sandwiches (that i will never go back and try due to mine being sandwich being gross) and slow service as well.1 star. epic fail.