New York Hot & Fresh Bagels

Disgusting… guys on the line were handling bagels without gloves and the guy at the register was fixing the cash tray, handling money and putting rolls away without gloves. Never again. No wonder their grade is pending.

Try local Corner Bakery or Tal for fresh NY bagels instead. First time we tried this place, we got dry bagels and skimpy cream cheese (my husband threw his out). Second try of another dry bagel and skimpy cream cheese, shame on Hot & Fresh.

if i wanted a day old bagel, i could have just gone through the trash and found it. this place has really bad bagels. we live in new york; it’s not hard to make a good bagel.

What a dump… I ended up here only because Bagel Express on 2^nd Ave just went out of business.
The place is really small and crowded. Ordering was difficult, which is to be expected because the staff don’t speak English very well and they have to move fast. It was a similar experience at Bagel Express. But what bothered me was that they got the order wrong and even paying was difficult.
I asked for toasted bagel, bagel was not toasted. One guy who made my boyfriend’s bagel aggressively shoved it toward him but failed to tell the person ringing it up what it was/​how much to charge. I’m too traumatized to come back here.

My fiancé and I were visiting the area and found this place near our hotel. We both ordered breakfast sandwiches on everything bagels and they were delicious!

Got me once. They’re selling rolls with holes in them and calling them bagels. The «bagels» and other baked goods look to be about the quality of what you’d find at a street cart. This place is well disguised as a bagel shop, minus the bagels.

Came early in the morning and my bagel was stale… They must have recycled day old. So disappointing… You’re are a bagel shop and can’t hit a home run on the main product. I don’t think I will try again…

Not the best bagel I’ve ever had but i would go back. I got an everything bagel with scallion cream cheese. Normally I’ve had chive cream cheese, never scallion and truthfully it wasn’t that great. There were some sections were the scallion wasn’t really chopped up so it made for a few annoying bites. The flavor of it was good, if they had chopped up the scallion a little more finely, I think it would’ve made it more enjoyable.

If you get there in the morning the bagels, rolls and other things like donuts are fresh.
They all come out of the oven fresh.
I have found the fruit salad, yogurt with fruit really great.
The juice bar is excellent its fast, fresh and the prices are very good.
This place is a great little place on the Upper Eastside.

There is a process to ordering successfully here:
— Walk in (its tiny) and go all the way to the back near the beverage refrigerators (there will likely be people standing all over the place — they are waiting for their items to be ready)
— Someone will ask you what you want. Order it. Repeat it just to make sure.
— Pay
— Wait (usually 4 – 5 mins)
I guess the hardest part is just the first step. I’ve seen people get confused and walk out.
This place, for me, has a solid ham, egg and cheese. That’s my go to order every time. Usually a Sat or Sun morning. The lady switches it sometimes with a bagel and cream cheese.
Bagels are hot (soft on inside and just the right «crunch» on outside), eggs are cooked right and the cheese is very melt-​y.
Price is around $ 3.50 if I remember correctly. There is a $ 10 min on CCs.
Perfect first step to recovery.

I am pretty new to the neighborhood and these are the best bagels I have found so far. Service is quick, even with a long line. The everything bagel was crispy and flavorful, the plain was just okay.

ugh just so unsanitary its disgusting. i saw an employee pick a pepper out of the salad fixing station with his bare hand and eat it… I walked out, Never again!!!

Make sure you have patience if calling for delivery. You have to repeat what you say about 3 times (it never fails)…but it’s relatively fast once order is in. They have turkey bacon which is cool… or just turkey whatever floats your boat.

I always get the exact same thing — turkey and swiss on a wheat bagel with no dressings and a sugar free Red Bull. The quality is reliable and meal SO filling and enjoyable.
It’s EXTREMELY difficult to place an order over the phone, as I am usually ordering for more than one person — the process of explaining your orders and providing a credit card number is SO incredibly frustrating. Even in person, it’s a little difficult. However, they’ve not messed up an order too badly and the deliciousness negates the frustration. I would still recommend ordering in person if you’re able — besides, delivery times have been upwards of 45 minutes to deliver across the street.
We were just being really lazy.
Regardless, you’ll get your grub and it’ll be good.

This is my go to spot for bagels near my apartment and happens to be the closest. I’ve really only tried one other place, but don’t really feel the need to explore any further after trying the bagels from here. The bagels are baked to the point where i don’t feel the need to toast them. Service is very fast even when theyre busy on the weekends. Love their cream cheeses too, haven’t had one that I didn’t like. It’s no ess-​a-​bagel, but it’s a solid neighborhood spot.

I’m going to teach you some Yiddish. Ready?
Repeat after me: «A shanda fur di goyim.» That means, roughly «an embarrassment for the Jews in front of gentiles.»
Some things are so shameful that they make us all look bad:
Eliot Spitzer.
Misogynistic fundamentalists.
Hot & Fresh bagels.
Not necessarily in that order.
These bagels are appalling. They are ROLLS, people, and not even good rolls: dry, crumbly, and tasteless. Garlic was the only flavor discernible in the Everything bagel, and it was a harsh, bitter flavor. The food in the cold case seemed just as misbegotten. I had to look away from a dried-​out-​looking knish in a Technicolor– orange hue.
If people think this is Jewish food. .. oy. We need this like a hole in the head.

Bagels and service are amazing. We get chicken salad sandwiches from this place every Thursday and always get bagels from here when we want them for breakfast. The guys behind the counter are fast, polite, and professional. Since we’ve been going there a while, they remember what we want when we walk in and seem genuinely happy to see us.
The ONLY reason this doesn’t get five stars is because the muffins are not very good. The bagels and employees are fantastic!

Adding another star. Working my way up to 5 stars but bagels are serious business, people, and I have only been to two bagel places in the neighborhood so far so I need to conduct further research.
I will say though that happiness to me is a perfectly executed bagel breakfast sandwich– and Hot & Fresh truly delivered on that when I needed it most (read: extremely hungover, returning home from a crazy night in the Bronx…) in fact I must have had hangover face on that morning because one of the guys working there looked at me and said «let me guess– you want a bacon egg and cheese sandwich». YES, yes I do.
It was beyond delicious– piled with egg and melted in my mouth. I think I said something ridiculous yet awesome on the way back like «I want my next birthday cake to be one giant breakfast sandwich from that place». But seriously. Will be returning.
Oh yeah and they deliver. So what if I’m only a 5 minute walk from there, sometimes I might just want someone to show up at my door with a bag full of those sandwiches for me. Sounds like heaven.

Decent little bagel nook on the UES. A little on the pricey side, and I still think Bagel Express and Tal Bagels are better, but their bagels have a nice hard outside and soft chewy inside. They also don’t go stingy on the butter or cream cheese which is a good thing.
Service is pretty quick here too. It is the kind of place where you jump in to get your bagel and coffee on the go. No place to really sit down and eat — just a small counter area. They also offer some muffins and other pastries here, but not a huge assortment.

The only item I’ve had at Hot & Fresh Bagels is their smoothie, which was not very good.
Way too whole-​milk-​y than fruity, look elsewhere if you are looking for a good smoothie.
I’ll probably not be back for their bagels, either, since I noted that their prices were not very friendly.