Cafe Bagel

Nice place. Very clean. Service is quite good considering the amount of traffic they get. Good selection of food and, though not cheap, not too pricey either. We go occasionally to get out, and because it’s close, easy and good.

Great bagels. Delicious pastries. Sometimes service gets backed up in the morning rush.

This place was just ok. Busy so you would think they had great food. Extra star for flavored coffees. But bagels were meh. Flavored butter is apparently a gourmet spread.

The bagel sandwiches are good!!!
But will need better customer service especially with a smile on their face.

It’s a bagel place they have to expect people will be there in the morning. But instead they have one person working and it take 15 minutes to get a bagel. Very frustrating

The food is okay, but everything costs $ 2 more than it should. Tiny little side of potato salad. The bakery items in the case are are regularly stale.

Awesome breakfast and lunch, fresh ingredients, strong coffee wonderful and quick service

Selection is ok– probably the best in the Columbia area, but nowhere near NY or NJ bagel shops. Customer service is terrible – owner is a grouch and always has a frown on his face. Not friendly at all. Will not take phone orders on the weekend, even if it is Sunday afternoon around 2pm when there is no line.

We stopped coming here few years ago because of the customer service mainly. Food is so so, nothing special. It’s close and convenient but I avoid this place. They charge you extra if you want your bagel sliced and another extra charge if you want it toasted. They try to get every cent out of you. Never get the baked good items on the shelf, it’s not fresh.

Worst everything bagel I’ve had. Tasted like salt and very rude owner. Walked in hoping to get one bagel for there and 6 to go. The owner didn’t even allow me to buy two to go. In the end I was very happy I didn’t get the bagels to go because they where tough and had an overpowering taste of salt.

The bagels are okay. The coffee drinks are average. The attitude of the people working here is terrible. They do not say thank you. I feel likeni am bothering them by ordering. Go somewhere else.

Originally from the New York area, I find it hard to get good bagels in Maryland. Café bagel has decent bagels. I enjoy the occasional bagel sandwich for lunch and have had their breakfast sandwiches a handful of times. Good when trying to grab something fast but nothing special.

Will NEVER go back! My husband & I have been regulars here for a few years, getting bagels several times a week. The bagels are decent. The owners are incredibly rude, nasty, always scowling & this morning, one of them practically yelled at my husband for no good reason. They have absolutely no gratitude for customers. We’ll never spend another dime here & will tell everyone we know to stay away too. Check out Sam’s Bagels in Catonsville – nice guy & better bagels.

Was staying at the Holiday Inn next door on business and stopped in for a quick lunch. I had the Andy’s Special on a garlic bagel with chips.
There were some good and bad things about Café Bagel.
The Good:
— Large menu with a lot of great options
— They have salt bagels (they were out but I still have to commend this)
— Your meal comes with a pickle
— More cream cheeses on the menu than I’ve ever seen
The Bad:
— This place feels kind of dirty on this inside
— The menu is extremely small and difficult to read (even for a 28 year old with great vision) and there are no paper menus to read
— They have a bizarre refills policy that is very off putting
I don’t normally write reviews in this format but for Café Bagel it felt appropriate. I really enjoyed my sandwich but there’s definitely a few things to know before grabbing lunch or breakfast here.

Terrible customer service. The owner made a huge fuss because I plugged my laptop into one of their outlets. They’re also not very friendly. The atmosphere doesn’t make you want to stay.

Best bagel breakfast sandwiches in the area, hands down. They make them to-​order and you can choose from a variety of tasty bagels. I like the Everything and Asiago Cheese. Never, ever taste stale or overbaked. Just the right amount of crisp and chewiness with a soft, doughy inside.
They also have very good flavored coffee (Hazelnut!) and a nice selection of italian desserts. We usually go on Sundays and it’s packed with locals, so can be hard to find a seat at one of their mini café tables. May take up to ten minutes to get your order when it’s busy but it’s worth the wait. Parking can be a chore because it’s adjacent to a Giant.

I have been going here for years. Until today. Today, after eating I filled up my coffee (one refill permitted as per the sign) and left, only to be chased down and grabbed by the owner and told NO REFILLS IF YOU AREN’T EATING IN. Well, she hadn’t seen me in the place because she was cleaning in back, but when I went back in, several staff confirmed I was in the right. She chased me down and grabbed me. Bloody insane. I have been going there three or more mornings a week, but no more.

Ordered a supreme bagel with cream cheese and an egg bagel with bacon/​egg/​cheese.
The supreme bagel was seasoned with goodies and was delicious. On the same level as Bagel Bin plus or minus. Might not be up to par with NY locals, but certainly satisfactory.
Not sure if it was just the egg bagel itself, but I thought the egg sandwich lacked any flavor and was dry throughout.
Would recommend for a dozen bagels and maybe you will have better luck with a breakfast sandwich.

If you are looking for a good almost New York Style bagel then Café Bagel is your place.
This place has a good offering of spreads, bagels, sandwiches pastries, juices and drinks. For a small shop they do offer a good amount of variety plus there bagels are one of the better in the area.
My wife and were tried for the same old small non-​NY bagel from dunkin donuts and such, so we decided to try out Café bagel and we have def. found out local bagel place.
As I mentioned they offer a good array of spreads and bagels, my two favs are the everything bagel with chive cream cheese or the whole wheat with honey butter. Both are solid items depending on if you want the sweet or savory taste. Also a plus is that you can ask the bagel to be toasted, spead on the side or they will put it on for you, so you can be lazy and have Café bagel do all the work or you can do the spreading yourself… your choice.
The coffee is decent too, I am not a coffee consouir so I can’t stack it up against say a Starbucks or a home blend, but I thought it was good and they offer a dark and light roast.
So if your in the mood for bagels, sandwiches, or coffee Café Bagel is def. the place to go…
No bagel no bagel no bagel, swing batta swing
Cheers mates and mind the cream cheese.

I’ve been coming here off an on for the past 6 years when I’ve needed a quick bagel fix. It’s a nice solid bagel place right up there with the Bagel Bin. The last time I went it looked like they had expanded their menu to include more lunch options and they rearranged to make the eat in area look bigger. I saw that they had some vegetarian sandwiches on their menu that sounded good, but I typically get the usual cream cheese or egg and cheese on a bagel.
I’ve noticed in reviews for bagel places, people always compare them to NY bagels. I don’t know about all that, but their bagels taste pretty much like every other decent independent bagel place in the state. They have a good selection and you can even go later in the day and they keep it stocked pretty well.