Bagels On The Hudson

The bagels don’t keep. They’re stale the next day, so getting a few is pointless.

I’m shocked at the low overall rating that Bagels on the Hudson gets because the bagels are very very good, especially if you’re lucky enough to grab them straight out of the oven. When guests stay over, we try to run out the next morning and bring them bagels from here. Plus, the strawberry cream cheese is delicious. I think most people are upset at the service — most of the employees are not very friendly and don’t seem to be trained well. Even the amount of spread they give you will vary on luck, and I’ve also been charged different prices by different people. Nevertheless, they seem to be doing good business as the bagels keep people coming back, myself included!

The food is decent but the service is awful. The last 4 times I’ve ordered from here they’ve gotten my order wrong and made no apologies to make it better. I can’t wait for the new bagel place to open up on 7^th Street. I will never go here again.

This place is God’s gift to Hoboken. I don’t know where I would be to this day if during my college years I didn’t have the ability to eat at Bagels. There have been so many times I have stumbled here after a rough night and no matter what the service and quality of my pork roll egg and cheese on a whole wheat everything bagel has been AMAZING. Hoboken and Stevens students would not be the same without them. AND to top it all off I recently moved to Weehawken and they deliver to me :). How great is that?!
Great bagels and great service. Just a tip, weekends are busy so get there early in the morning if you want a great start to your day!

Customer service behind counter are blatantly rude. I ordered bagels for a large event and asked them to all be sliced as we were at a remote location with no utensils, and none of them came sliced upon pick up. I have found hair in my bagel, and they have smelled of cigarette smoke in prior pickups. Done going here.

It took two hours for me to get my food delivered. That is not reasonable for any type of food, much less for a toasted bagels with cream cheese and a pork roll sandwich. When I tried calling, no one answered. And I tried calling multiple times. The food was good, standard, but I wouldn’t order again because of the late delivery.

I love this place so much but will not be ordering takeout anymore. You’re better off walking/​driving there because delivery takes for-​e-​ver. So in conclusion, food: good, delivery: bad

Don’t order from here for delivery. It’s been over two hours, no food, and despite trying to call 10 – 20 times over the past half hour no one will pick up to address where the food is or let me cancel my order.
Never again.

If you like dirty food, shitty attitudes and dealing with the diseased rhinoceros himself during the overnight shift ‘Kevin’, well you’ve come to the right place! Sanitation and manners are down the drain here at Hudson bagel. Go down the block, look at their ratings, taste their food, get treated with respect. Can’t wait til good joint gets shut down, although firing Kevin would be a start in the proper direction.
–Good Day

With a name bagels on the Hudson, you expect tremendous bagels right? Wrong.
Overall: Overpriced for subpar service with subpar taste.
Reason: First time I ever ordered it took 4 hours for an order of 6 people. A fluke right? No. Second time I order for one…1.5 hours. Bagels taste plain. Not toasted, not buttered, not some secret method to make them taste amazing even though their name suggests it. Never pick up the telephone. Coffee tastes terrible.
It’s like that one guy you want to like, but every time you interact, he does something that is just so stupid.
For as popular as the name is, it’s no shock they are a two star rating on Unilocal

I don’t do reviews much but this place is so bad I just had to do human kind a favor and help people avoid this place. Food is eh at best but typically horrible and over priced (for an $ 8 sandwich, I was charged extra for lettuce tomato and onions, but the bitchy cook didn’t even put onions in the sandwich). Worst part of the place is the staff is rude and unpleasant after 11pm. Early morning rush was a mess, it looked like everyone’s first day on the job.
I gave this place a couple tries cause it is right next to my place and each visit I hoped it would be better than the last. But it never got better, it’s been consistently shitty. I’ve had one pleasant visit, out of five.
Please do not eat here, with any luck they will go out of business and be replaced with a better establishment or at least better management.

Do not ever get food delivered from here. The fact that they’re still in business is beyond me. I was born and raised in Hoboken and there’s a reason why no one that was goes there.
But I figured I’d give it a shot. Two hours later and no food. Even better then that, they’ll take the phone off the hook and you won’t even be able to cancel the order.
Between
and Unilocal,there are literally hundreds of terrible reviews about this place.
Don’t go here.

The woman at the register and the woman who helped me were two of the most unfriendliest people I had to encounter this past month. I come here simply because I live Uptown and it is convenient, but this will be my last trip to Bagels on the Hudson.
Other than the salty customer service, the everything bagel is easily the most bland «everything» bagel I have ever consumed. The egg on my breakfast sandwich was unappetizing and soggy, while the American cheese was barely melted.
Terrible breakfast sandwich.

I love gooey, soft bagels with cream cheese and bacon in the morning when I’ve had too much to drink the night before. I don’t know how this place only has 2 stars. They do take a little longer to delivery but I do live in Jersey City and it is always hot when I get it.
Bagels are fresh and they have a lot of varieties and will pretty much do anything with your bagel or roll or whatever you get. The location is also convenient because you don“t have to fight for parking most of the time.
I’ll be coming here until I move… far, far away.

This type of place where since they have good food and get a lot of people to go there that they think they don’t need to provide good service.
This is type of place where you don’t want to even give them one star.
Go here when you have a ton of time or aren’t in a rush because they have the potential to ruin the start to your day.
I definitely won’t be back. There’s just too many other places in Hoboken to get a good bagel or breakfast sandwich. No reason to give them another chance.

The bagels are Delish! They’re huge and flavorful!
I ordered the everything bagel (wheat and toasted) with turkey bacon and egg white — the sandwich was so hearty. I gave them a four because the meal was out of this world and because I’ve been to shitty bagel places that skimp out on everything but this place did not disappoint.
I went in to order so I can’t speak to delivery; however, in store ordering was pretty quick. My sandwich was ready in under 10 mins.

If you want to eat breakfast at breakfast time, do not attempt to get delivery from here. I’ve had good food here and wanted to give this place at least 2 or 3 stars, so I gave them another shot today. The botched the order again… huge FAIL.
Yesterday, I ordered at 945 am and got my food at 1215pm. I had an appointment at 1pm so really cutting it close. Not to mention, my order was wrong. I ordered egg whites and spinach with alpine lace swiss. I got regular eggs, chicken, bacon and american cheese… really guys? not even close! They apparently delivered my sandwich to someone who has a similar sounding address. And when they «fixed» our orders they messed the two up again. After 2.5 hours of waiting, I gave up all diets and beliefs and made sandwich disappear.
Figured I’d give them one more shot today just to make sure before writing this. I sacrificed my money and frustration to make sure my reporting was accurate. Ordered meatball parm with roasted red peppers and I clicked mozzarella (extra $ 1 which makes no sense since meatball parm should include cheese, no?). I added roasted red peppers for another dollar.
In the end, the delivery came, and I received a fried chicken cutlet (they did call me to tell me they were sold out of meatballs) and nothing else. Can you imagine a more messed up establishment? Screw this place. I would rather pay the $ 3 delivery charge at Bagel Smashery (which is not perfect by any means but puts this place to shame) and get my food in about an hour, somewhat close to what I ordered, and be happy to go about the day.
Avoid unless you are hungry and just happen to be walking by. And if you are the manager reading this, tighten up because this is very poor.

Despite the 3 star average (with lots of bad reviews), I wanted to give these guys a shot, so I did what will come to be known as the Great Hoboken Bagel Showdown of 2015. I went to Hoboken Hot Bagel (my usual bagel place) and got my gold standard by which all bagels are compared — an everything bagel (NOT toasted! very important!) with cream cheese (actually I like veggie cream cheese for the psychological effect of not consuming something entirely unhealthy but for comparison purposes, I stick to the regular cream cheese). I walked up the block to Bagels on the Hudson and got the same.
To the non-​bagel connoisseur, you might not be able to tell much of a difference between the two bagels. If you go early in the morning, the bagels will likely have just come out of the oven so they’re nice and warm (but NOT toasted!) and probably moist and not dry like cheap store-​bought bagels. Isn’t that good enough?
If you’re going to ruin your bagel by toasting it anyways or put a whole lot of crap in between the bagel to make it a sandwich… then no. Go ahead and do whatever the hell you want with your bagel.
But if you actually care about bagels, then Hoboken Hot Bagels clearly makes the best bagels in town. Why? Hoboken Hot Bagels gets the texture of the bagel right. It’s just the right level of chewiness. The bagels from Bagels on the Hudson are too soft and lifeless.
I’m not really sure why this place always seems to be busy when I walk by. Hoboken Hot Bagels is literally two blocks away. Maybe Hoboken Hot Bagels doesn’t have the variety of bagel sandwiches and other non-​bagel foods that this place does… but if you’re not going for the bagels, why go here at all?
I’ll still give these guys a 3 because just the fact that they’re made fresh in-​store is worth something. It’s about the same as JP’s Bagels and better than Bagel Smashery (which is a travesty all in its own for its gimmicky bagel smashing. Blasphemy!) Better than getting stale bagels from the grocery, Starbucks, some other local café/​restaurant or elsewhere.

Very weird place. Obviously I went here at 1am on New Year’s Eve, but I think what was going on at that time would be very similar to what is going on every other time of the day. Long lines, odd, angry people working, food looking subpar, and an overall sloppy sandwich.
One of the «gentlemen» behind the counter looked like he just dropped some acid as he’s making bagel sandwiches. Not only was he wide-​eyed and throwing around directions to the other employees, he was taking little bites of the leftovers after he made orders, then he would drop his hand directly into the tomatoes and lettuce. The other guys were just overall angry and not happy with what was occurring.
Even if none of this occurred, the bagel sandwich wasn’t very good. Pass on this place.

**It’s important to note that this place was closed for a solid number of months for renovations, so any review prior to 2014 may not be accurate or relevant**
Secondly, for those that noted that this place was moving slowly and service wasn’t topnotch, you should factor in that this is their opening weekend, they have new operations, and new staff… of course there will be growing pains! I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt!
Now onto the food!
Bagels were made fresh in the back and they kept bringing out hot trays of new bagels while I was in line. The bagel is more of a large, doughy type. I got the everything bagel with cream cheese and lox and man, did it hit the spot!
My only request is that they shmear BOTH sides of the bagel because some of us like to eat one side at a time instead of sandwich style!
The shop is setup much better than it was in the past, with coffee and drinks on the right and a large counter at the left. Order at the end and pay back up front. There is a big grill top where they make fresh bacon, eggs, etc. (this is a huge plus in my mind, as the shop a block down uses a microwave… eek!)
Come out anytime (open 24 hrs!) and try out this new joint for yourself!