Hot Bagels Abroad

Stopped in on a Saturday morning around 11am. I had an excellent bacon egg and cheese on a roll. It was a fast paced in and out so I didnt get to look at all the bagel options but I will be back!

I have tried every bagel shop in the area, although this one is more out of my way, it is by far the best bagel shop with fast service and quality ingredients. A must try if you want a good bagel!

Really enjoyed the bagels I had here while I was in town.
Ordered the sesame bagel with veggie cc and everything bagel with olive cc. Both were delicious. I love a slightly crispy toast to my bagels, and these delivered though one was slightly less toasted than the other. The service was fast and friendly, I was in and out very quickly which was appreciated.
Took off one star because in their display case of flavored cream cheese balls, I could see a hair in the cream cheese… Yuck.

Best bagels I’ve had in this area. I live a town over and I take the drive at least once a week for these bagels. AMAZING! The line is usually out the door around 9 am but it moves pretty quickly. I highly recommend.

Amazing food so many thing to choose from… Great service friendly environment… best part is everything is fresh and hand made cream cheeses… Delicious!

Love this place! I have lunch here about 2 times a week, and everything I’ve tried been very good! Also, the guys who work there are very friendly and funny.
Great food, fresh bagels, decent coffee, and a variety of options… definitely worth trying if you are in the area!

These guys have quality product, but their error rate in executing an order is shockingly high. We’ve been there perhaps 7 – 8 times now and they’ve screwed up the majority of our orders (usually they picked the wrong bagel or muffin, other times got the fillings wrong). I’ve waited awhile to write this and hope management actually reads these reviews. I’ll keep going back and will update my review if their quality control improves. Mistakes do happen, but this level doesn’t help anyone there to prepare for future employment either.

Bagels are great, but get ready to say your order 5 times. They move so quickly they hardly listen to everything you say. It’s a mad house Sunday morning, but if you can handle the chaos it’s worth it.

Best bagel joint in montclair by far. Excellent service, always extremely quick with orders. The bagels are always extra fluffy and they never mess up orders. There’s so many breakfast and lunch options that I have yet to try. I always stick to either a bagel with a spread or a bagel sandwich.
For cream cheese, I will get plain on a toasted cinnamon raisin bagel if I’m having a sweet tooth craving. Absolutely delicious. Even better than that is scallion cream cheese on virtually any savory bagel (everything, egg, plain…) All of their cream cheeses that are flavored are home made and the scallion is to DIE for.
Another great option is lox on a bagel with cream cheese. Can’t go wrong with some tomatoes on their too.
Their traditional egg and cheese sandwiches are absolutely delicious. I’ll get one with extra bacon.

too good, just too good a deli to pass up. The bagels and cream cheese options are incredible, especially for the price.

I recently moved to Montclair, and definitely found my favorite breakfast place at Hot Bagels Abroad! The bagels are always fresh (most of the time warm when I manage to come in), the prices are excellent, and the staff are friendly! They make a killer breakfast sandwich, and the special on the weekend can’t be beat.
The only issue I take is with two or three of the younger employees… Sometimes I go in and they’re so busy joking around and talking to each other that when they yell ‘next’, people hesitate to order until they’re done messing around, and are met with a nasty look for keeping them waiting while they aggressively yell ‘next’ 3 more times mid-​sentence with another employee. I’ve spoken to two friends who agree that they now hesitate to go in due to the horseplay and attitude, but that doesn’t stop me. I need my fix, and there’s no better place for a bagel fix than here!
In short, I highly recommend this place, but the lack of professionalism in younger staff has caused me to only give four stars instead of five. If you want a bagel, this is the place to be!

Pretty good basic bagels but their cream cheese is subpar – it tastes like whipped low fat cream cheese. GROSS! The mornings are packed but they move fast.

Everything you could want from a bagel shop. I don’t have to tell them to lay the butter on in an old school LES slab or to go heavy with the bacon on my bacon egg and cheese on a toasted everything, they just do it. Saturday mornings you’ll find a mix of middle age Dads, young professionals and local Montclair kids home from their first semester at college with their new roommate decked out in their IVY school sweats, because they just had to show their new pals what a true NJ bagel is. The place is clean, and the staff is genuinely friendly and appreciative of loyal customers.

Great bagels, delicious homemade cream cheese in so many flavors, low fat veggie is my favorite. The place is so clean and nicely decorated and awesome customer service!

This place is amazing and always clean. The staff is friendly and the food is by far way better then any other bagels shop. Top notch

This has become my new bagel place as the place I used to frequent must have changed over because their bagels have really gone downhill.
I believe this shop is related to the spot with the same name on Broad St in Bloomfield, but this one is easier to park at. As many people have already mentioned, these bagels have good texture, some chew, not too bready. They’re a good size, not monstrously huge. I only ever order everything bagels, sometimes with lox, tomatoes, onions and cream cheese. That lox sandwich is perfectly made. Not too much of anything, not too little.
Even when there’s a line, it moves quickly and efficiently. The guys working at the counter are friendly enough.
There’s only one other bagel shop that I like more, but it’s completely out of the way in Clifton (Plaza Bagel and Deli, aka Punk Rock Bagels).

Just moved into the area and can tell that I will be frequenting this place a lot. I had the weekend special of lox, cream cheese, and onion on an everything bagel. The price was very fair. It’s very fast paced in there especially on the weekend. The try to keep the crowd moving.

FINALLY found a good bagel spot close to where I live!
I’ve had the egg & cheese on a whole wheat bagel and it’s delicious! The bagels taste really soft and fresh. I’ve only gone here on Saturdays and although there’s always a line, it moves pretty fast. As for the price, we ordered an egg and cheese on whole wheat bagel & a Taylor ham, egg, and cheese on an everything bagel and it came out to around $ 8 with some change.

Small place. Big bagel.
Located in the strip mall on Valley Road this place is hopping in the morning. No matter the day. People in and out quickly. Many bagel choices, but Ive had only sesame or poppy seed. I enjoy them both. They make a mean breakfast sandwich with terrific (if not quite enough) bacon. The prices are fair and the service is polite and quick. The bagels are really quite large.
Easy in and out. parking can take a moment because its a strip mall and parking is not great.

4.5
I gave away my bagel heart a long time. Bagel Pantry of South Plainfield, NJ. That was their name. We were from the same town. We had our own lingo. But like all childhood loves, distance could put a toll on ending the relationship. And it did.
Six months ago, I had moved to Montclair, and found out of Hot Bagels Abroad. I was skeptical. At first I didn’t want to move on. How could someone compare to MY Bagel Pantry.
Bagel Pantry was all I knew, and had grown accustomed to. To be honest, I did a little comparing:
Did they have the French Toast bagel? (Yes)
Did they have what my former love was missing? Yes and much more.
(The whole wheat everything bagel, and cuter workers behind the counter)
I’m glad I gave ‘em a chance. Here we are months into our new relationship and can’t help but think about them when the Jersey girl inside of me is looking a solid breakfast.