Chesapeake Bagel Bakery

Food is good but service is awful. Parking is impossible. Never have bagels I want there and when I order them in advance they get the order wrong, give them away, or don’t have them ready. No manager on duty most of the time. When you call the staff are trying to be helpful but their limited English creates a serious problem.

Definitely the best bagels in Arlington. My favorite is the sourdough or blueberry and all of their cream cheeses are amazing!

Sourdough bagel was fantastic. $ 10 for Turkey bagel sandwich and a coffee. Coffee is mediocre but I would definitely come back for the sourdough bagel.

Chesapeake Bagel is a pretty solid choice for your bagel needs. They do have a pretty large selection of bagels, croissants, and sandwiches for your morning.
The space is pretty small, but they seem to have accommodating seating for everyone who comes in. I’ve been probably 3 times since I’ve lived in Arlington.
Last time in I got Bacon Egg and Cheese on a banana nut bagel. I don’t mind having some odd combinations in a breakfast sandwich. Unfortunately, the banana nut bagel tasted like a plain bagel. It didn’t have any flavor at all so that was kind of disappointing.
I will say the staff works quickly and is very helpful! Bottom line — if you’re in the area, it’s a good option to have, especially since it’s near a starbuck’s and harris teeter so if you’re out you can lump all your errands together. But if you’re closer to a panera or bruegger’s i’d say it’s probably worth your while just to go to one of those.

Their bagels are fine. I really like the sundried tomato, and also the pumpkin ones they have in the fall.
Where this place falls short is service. I once asked for four (2 each) of my favorite bagels and the woman gave me two pumpkin bagels with sundried tomato cream cheese, which made no sense. Most of the time you walk in the place the staff is congregated in the back yammering on in Spanish and even with no line it takes forever to get your order in.
This is another place I’ll probably stop in occasionally just because I live right across the street and it’s convenient. Probably wouldn’t recommend driving all the way here though, it’s mediocre at best.

Best egg bagel I’ve ever had in my life. Way better than anything in Brooklyn! They put a generous (but not disgusting so you have to scrape some off) amount of cream cheese on. Great variety of juices, teas, etc. Service is fast, prices are reasonable, and my brother can’t get enough of their Eggwich Caprese (egg, mozarella, tomato, and basil on a bagel). Every time I’m in town I go there at least once!

Bottom line — I’m a fan.
This is the only spot in town you can get a REAL bagel. Most the local bagel joints will serve you up a previously frozen product but CBB is the real deal. Any given day it’s easy to catch a fresh batch out of the kettle — toasted everything being my go-​to. When I have family in town from NY, this is a must stop for 2 dozen and the bacon chive cream cheese — which alone deserves a separate Unilocal post! You can eat that s. t on anything.
Lunch here is also a must try as they are one of the few places that roast their turkey in house. The rotating soups are delish (hit up that brocolli cheddar or potato) and the seasonal sandwhiches are too. My favorite has to be a the chesapeake club which hopefully finds it’s way permanently on the menu.
People gripe about the choices but they can fly a kite. I love the option to add avocado and tomatoe to my eggwhich, why not. And a schmere of my favorite cream cheese on my lunch sandwhich — yes sir! Also the line is long? People love the food and it’s made to order… you do the math. Do yourself a favor and check this spot out.

So I never post a review, but … I’ll make an exception this time around.
So I’ve been here several times and have NEVER been impressed with their food. But in a time crunch it serves it’s purpose with my kids. However, if you are going to serve subpar food, at least you can have good service right? His place fails that too.
There are plenty of better bagels shops out there. Why do we have to have a crappy one here in our neighborhood?

I never write reviews, but I am very disappointed with my food at the moment so here goes. I ordered a bagel with roast beef and cheese on it and was shocked at how pricey it was when I got to the register, almost $ 9. I have gotten this at a ton of bagel shops in the past and it is more around $ 6 and change (much more reasonable). The worst was that the roast beef just looked and tasted disgusting. I am pretty sure they used roast beef that was like a week old. I ended up pulling it all off the bagel and just eating a bagel with the slice of cheese on it. Complete waste of money. Bagel tasted good, but obviously still very very annoyed that at the end of the day I paid $ 9 for a bagel with a slice of cheese on it (since the roast beef was completely inedible).

One, I didn’t know this chain still existed. I was excited to relive my college days… Two, there’s a reason the past is never as good as we remember. I was not impressed. The place was large and empty. The menu was gigantic. Like way too large for a bagel place. I don’t think you need 100 types of salads, sandwiches, wraps, bagels, breakfast sandwiches, etc… You get my drift.
The bagel with turkey and Swiss was good, but nothing special. I could have made better at home.
The place looked worn out and as if a «Closing Soon» sign was waiting in the back room. I stumbled across this place while shopping at Harris Teeter next door. I’ll skip it next time and get lunch elsewhere.

Wow — this place is gross. I was in Arlington, running a few minutes early for an appointment with my doctor when hunger set in. I spotted Chesapeake Bagel Bakery (CBB) and figured I’d get a quick bagel. First, nothing is quick here. The line system, even off peak hours (this was 10:30 on a Wednesday), moves very slowly, and clearly CBB needs to hire additional staff to deal with the demand. I’d be willing to forgive the speed if the bagels were good but these were, without a doubt, the worst bagels I’ve ever had. To call the flat, tasteless, round piece of bread I received a bagel is to do violence to bagels everywhere. And what’s worse, I asked for a sesame bagel with hummus, and guess how much it cost? $ 6. I don’t know about you, but that seems really, really steep to me — I can get a bagel with hummus at Bruegger’s for like $ 4. I can get a bagel with hummus in Brooklyn for $ 3. This hummus, which was more beige glue than hummus, was the most expensive hummus I’ve encountered to date. If you’re near CBB and you’re hungry, go to Harris Teeter instead.

Service is absolutely horrible. The employees are slow and do not care about providing courteous service. I ordered a sandwich and changed my mind immediately and the employee behind the counter rolled her eyes and started speaking Spanish to herself in an annoyed tone. Last time I came, the employee dropped one of the small metal milk pitchers on the floors and proceeded to use it to make my latte. She didn’t bother to stop until I mentioned to her that she was using a dirty pitcher that just fell on the floor. Don’t know why I came back for the second time. Won’t be back again.

I felt compelled to write a Unilocal review after my first (and last) visit to Chesapeake Bagels. Firstly, extremely rude service by the staff. Secondly, way overpriced for what it is. The food was entirely mediocre and the service was even worse. Also, word of advice, don’t get the coffee frappé like drinks.

OVER PRICED & UNFRIENDLY, customer service was awful, the Hispanic women behind the counter were very short and were talking about customers in their language, the food was lacking and over priced for the quality. $ 8 – 9 for a bacon egg and cheese, on a regular bagel. (seriously?)

While this is my go to for bagels & breakfast bagel sandwiches, do not go there for a large number of bagels. When going to get 3 dozen for work I checked online to price who I was going to go to and Chesapeake came out with the best price and bundle (12 bagels with 2 cream cheese for $ 11.29). So, when everyone else was pushing for Panera I held true to Chesapeake and went there.
So, imagine my surprise when my total comes out to almost $ 60!!! When I brought this up to the lady helping me she said that the cream cheeses come separately and they do not do bundles. When I brought up that this is what their menu online had it went unacknowledged. Begrudgingly I paid as I did not have time to go somewhere else. I do know that in the future I will not be going here for large group bagels as even though their bagels taste better (as someone who grew up in NY) than most around, it’s not worth the extra almost $ 20 to get them here.

This place really had some of the WORST service around. The bagel sandwiches are decent, but it’s not worth putting up with crappy service and overpriced food. 2 sandwiches and a drink will easily put you at twenty bucks. In addition the staff is rude and rarely gets an order correct. My wife routinely orders one of the specials right off the menu and few of the untrained folks that work there know how to make it. Also good luck ever getting an itemized receipt from this place. Would NOT recommend.

This place breaks my heart. It could be so incredibly good. The service is always rushed and hurried, and never very helpful or friendly. It just cost me $ 8.24 for a bagel with ham and cheese. Even a plain bagel with cream cheese is $ 3.
Maybe I’m used to mom and pop shops with great service that don’t overcharge, and maybe this is the area norm, but the flavor and service is not worth the price.

My experience today at this shop is what has finally driven me to write a review. I’ve gone to this place dozens of times as it’s close to my work and convenient. Overall, I can say the food has been satisfactory, albeit a little overpriced for what you get. There is a nice variety of daily soups and I like the long menu options. I agree with the other reviews — service is very poor. You’re often rushed through or not waited on at all; nickel and dimed for every little item on an already overpriced bagel.
Today, I ordered a roast beef sandwich on a plain bagel — nothing complicated. I took the wrapped to-​go sandwich and upon opening it at work, I made the mistake of hurriedly biting in to this. It took just a millisecond to recognize the odor of meat that has soured. I saw the wilted and browning lettuce and the very obviously rancid meat I had been served.
I called and asked for a manager — was told she wasn’t available. I explained the situation and was told it would be «looked in to» and was nearly rushed off the phone. I asked that something be done and was told I could come in for a replacement or a refund (when I should be getting both). My name wasn’t taken nor a number to reach me. So I am now inconvenienced with going back to the restaurant for a refund, which I am sure will be a less than pleasant experience.

I never write reviews on restaurants that I got to no matter how terrible the food or service but I just can’t let this one slide. Much to my relief, going off of the terrible reviews this place has gotten, it looks like a vast majority of people agree with me.
I have given this place chance after chance because I actually do enjoy their breakfast sandwich even though the price is ridiculous. I still went back even after they accused me of not paying for my sandwich which was absolutely ridiculous. I was sitting at the table with my boyfriend eating and one of the more rude ladies came up to me and said that I didn’t pay for that. Hmm, thats strange because my boyfriend and I paid together and he had the receipt to prove it. The worst part is that even after they realized their mistake they never apologized. Talk about horrible customer service.
Today the last straw came when I went in around 1:00pm which it usually is never busy. I was glad to see that there was not really a line and there were five people behind the counter. No one at the register, mind you. Instead of quickly rushing me through like they usually do and mess up my order, they instead completely ignored me for five minutes while the five of them made a sandwich for the ONE person ahead of me. Finally they said NEXT so I spout out my order but the lady who had said NEXT walked away while I was giving my order and the other ladies preceded to ignore me again. So, I was left standing there again until they mumbled something in Spanish and said «you wanted what cream cheese?» I never even mentioned cream cheese seeing as I was getting a breakfast sandwich.
So, in conclusion, there are a million other sandwich shops that are better then this where the ladies aren’t disgustingly rude and don’t talk about you in Spanish behind your back. Yes ladies, more people understand Spanish then you think. I think the only thing that can save this s***hole at this point if it is put under new management and all the staff fired. Fat chance of that so just stay far, far away from this place.

I don’t know where to start about this place. Someone needs to open up a bagel place across the street to put these guys out of business. My girlfriend and I come here because it’s the closest local place to get bagels that isn’t a chain. I’ve been coming here for over 15 years and the service has just gotten worse and worse. I hope the owners of this place read these reviews; they are choc full of good advice.
The service is TERRIBLE. There are 5 people behind the counter and not 1 of them is EVER friendly. They are the most unhappy group of people I’ve ever been served by at any restaurant in the area. They mess up our orders so often; it’s almost guaranteed. Everything is microwaved; the bacon and eggs are dried out, over cooked, and taste mediocre. Go up to Georgetown Bagelry in Bethesda to see how great bagels are really done. I have started buying bagels there on my way home from work and freezing them so we don’t have to suffer at Chesapeake every Saturday morning.
The «everything» bagels should be called the «barely anything» bagels. There are less and less toppings on them each time we go back. Last time (7÷19÷14), it was basically a plain bagel with a tiny sprinkle of toppings. How much would it really cost them to cover these things top and bottom like any other bagel place??? Also, their bagels seem smaller than they used to be. On Saturday, we got «barely anything» bagels with cream cheese, and half the bagel didn’t have any cream cheese on it at all. Not exaggerating. This has happened so many times and when we go back in to get more cream cheese, if we catch it before we drive away, they argue with us and say that they gave us the correct amount and we don’t need anymore. These are some of the most expensive bagels ever and, for the price we pay here, we should be getting much better quality and service, end of story. I dream of the day someone opens another local bagel spot where the business appreciates people, has friendly employees, and gets orders right. Is that seriously too much to ask? I hate leaving bad reviews, and honestly this is the only one I have ever left on Unilocal,but these guys need to get it together. The only reason they do so well is their location. Just like Dogma, with the Unleashed pet store across the street, and Hollywood Video when Blockbuster was there, competition can come in any time and take everything away.