What A Bagel

We walked from our hotel but unfortunately they were closed for business:(. Looks like they packed up and are gone!

I’ve been here every weekends as I live close by. Food was okay, but service wasn’t pleasant each time I was here. Long line up at the front to order and to pay, but no cashier… The cashier came out from the kitchen after a while, so I ended up waiting for over 10 minutes to order and another 20 minutes to get my food. Sometimes they forgot my food in the kitchen so I had to ask them to check, and when I got my food, it’s already cooled down. I tried to order by phone, but they couldn’t hear me on the phone for some reason (I’m sure my phone was working properly as there’s no problem calling anyone else). So I gave 2 stars for the food, no star for their service. Hope it gets the owner’s attention.

become a bit of a ritual for me to come here every morning. i like the breakfast bagel and brilliant bagel. bagels are fairly fresh. quick to come to the table. table service is prompt and efficient — not overly friendly though. reasonably priced. coffee is decent.

I love What A Bagel and the service is fantastic! My favourite us the avocado grilled cheese. Its just delicious. I can have it everyday for the rest of my life and still want more.

Thought this place was just so so. But for sure a lot of stuff are overpriced. The people are friendly but I honestly feel like the place is a scam. Won’t return.

Came here for brunch on a Friday during spring break so restaurant was relatively empty but business was picking up as we were wrapping up. We had bagels (served with tons of cream cheese on the side so you can put as much or as little as you want), waffles (very delish and lots of fruit/​whipped cream), pastries, coffee, and hot cocoa. All food was good and service was lovely. Cool décor and whatever problems they may have been having with pricing being displayed is history (see pictures of menu boards).

OK, what’s not to like about What A Bagel, but they need to work on their customer service — they are friendly and polite, but not flowing and organized. Bagels were fresh, their bourekas is not the correct shape, its more like a turnover. But if you’re looking for bagels, the bagels here are good. I hope they do well, they are in a good location — but they need to work on a more cohesive line AND find out how to make round bourekas with the hole in the middle …

Went here a couple days ago for brunch. I have to say that this place is quite nice!
I have the bagel+minestrone soup combo (~$ 6) and my gf had the salmon+egg+onion+tomato bagel with sweet potatofries (~$ 10).
The entire meal was very well done and I felt that this was a perfect way to start a morning. The server forgot to serve butter to go with my bagel but I reminded her and it was brought to me promptly. I took a bite from my girlfriend’s bagel and it did taste very good and they certainly didnt skimp out on any ingredients. I liked the touch with adding capers w/​the salmon.
Overall I think this was a great restaurant especially compared to the one on Thornhill. I didnt really like the one over there as much.
I do wish they provided better prices because at the end of the day it is just a bagel and soup. … tim hortons could offer similar for less than 5 bucks with a coffee. But it was good nonetheless.

What A bagel, is a good spot to pick up something to go. Their pastries and baked goods are actually pretty good. However, they close the kitchen at 2.30pm so you really cant order a meal after 2.30. I had the Caesar Salad before which was ok, I would say the items on the menu are overpriced. Tried their breakfast special, my scrambled eggs were overcooked, which was pretty pathetic, I mean its pretty hard to screw up scrambled eggs. I also tried the pancakes which was literally one of the works pancakes Ive ever tasted. It was really tough and not fluffy at all.
Overall:
Pastries and Baked Goods, really good,(cream cheese is overpriced)
Menu items (salad etc.), not bad, but overpriced
Breakfast, more like What a Joke

This is a great addition to the neighborhood… Fresh baked goods as well as a full service restaurant, wonderfully friendly staff, great promo’s, delicious coffee, and a catering program to hoot!
Love it! Will be back again and again!

I had been eagerly waiting for What a Bagel to open since I work just around the corner. It finally did! I made my way over for lunch today and at first I was excited by all the different baked goods displayed. My excitement tanked when I realized how confusing and disorganized the process of making a purchase is.
For starters, there are no prices anywhere around the baked goods. When I asked about this, I was told to look at the TV screens. Apparently the images on the screen will change, and each image will have a price next to it. Are you serious? You want me to stand there, starting at a screen, hoping that the price for the item I am holding/​interested in will appear? Ridiculous!
I noticed bags of day old baked goods, and asked for the price of the bag. They told me that it is 50% off. 50% off what? Each item in the bag? And again, there are no prices!
Then I went to the counter to get a bagel with cream cheese. I was told that I had to choose my own bagel and then come back and they could make it into a sandwich for me. At least they did have prices for the food behind the counter. But naturally I asked if the prices already included the price of the bread, or if I had to buy the bread separately. They said that it includes the price of the bread. So all bagels are the same price? So bloody confusing!
So I grabbed a few items (I know, I am surprised I did too after all the hassle. But I guess having invested all that time asking questions, I had to get something!) and when I tried to get them rung in, I had to tell them what each item was, and the size (they have 2 sizes for many of their items: mini and regular). I get that it is a new store, and the staff is still familiarizing themselves with the products and system. However, they were so nonchalant about the whole thing, that it seemed like it did not matter to them that the customers were ready to blow in sheer frustration.
So how was the food?
The bagel and cream cheese is way too expensive for what you get. $ 3.59 for a plain bagel with plain cream cheese! Also, the bagel tasted like plain ol’ bread. Not like a bagel at all.
Anyway, I may return if I am feeling like a pastry.
This place has a lot of kinks to work out, and one of those is the service, efficiency and recipes!
Get the bagel recipe right!