Bagel Land

This is a quaint local bagel shop. Good for a quick breakfast before hiking! They have different flavors. I tried the jalapeño swiss, which had a nice kick to it. They also slather a bunch of cream cheese, and put it together like a sandwich so you don’t have to dirty your hands! :) Opens early. We were in and out in a few minutes, so no complaints there!

Love this place. The sandwiches are awesome. Best in the area by far. The coffee is ok. It’s certainly not a high end roaster, but it’s not bad. The one thing I really wish this place had was a place to sit!

How freaking hard is it to get a bagel order right? Once again Bagel Land screwed up my order. My girlfriend and I were the only 2 people in the place, so noise or being busy is not to blame. I asked for a pesto bagel, toasted with jalapeño cream cheese.
Somewhere in the five feet between the counter and the toaster there was a communication breakdown, and I ended up with plain cream cheese. A minor thing I admit, but it completely changed the flavor of the bagel. It’s amazing how consistently this place manages to screw up something so simple.

If you’re just looking for a good bagel, this place is great. But if you expect anything more than a bag of bagels to take home, beware! The service staff are almost always high, no matter the time in the morning. They constantly screw up orders — not just my own — and lack any type of customer service.

We have frequented Bagel Land for a couple years. Usually, their bagels have been spot on. Great flavors, seasoning, and textures. But lately, the quality and taste have greatly declined. We are currently searching for another bagel shop.

Ugh. No. This place has the ambiance of a Keno deli, and the bagels were hard as rocks, the Pumpernickel tasted like a burnt raisin bagel, cream cheese is scarce, service, not very friendly. An extra star for the sea salt bagel, which had the right amount of salt.

This local business is my go to shop for all my bagel needs. I tend to order large amounts for work events and conferences. Some of the highlights are;
A. I can pick up 3 – 4 dozen fresh at 6am
B. They will slice them in half at no extra cost
C. Great variety of bagels to choose from
Unlike me, they’re always pleasant in the morning.
Spreads, I get their spreads, onion, garlic, veggie, lox, cream cheese all very tasty. *keeping it local y’all.

This place gets a solid three, and in Portlands dismal bagel scene that’s pretty damn good. I find that these bagels are at least prepared the right way and do have the outer crunch and inner chewiness that I look for. Definitely not a NY bagel but in this town I’ll take what I can get.

Not terrible bagels, but not great. I don’t like the soft squishy things that pass for bagels in so many places, but these are too darn hard. My husband called them ‘pre-​staled’.
Also, I noticed post visit that my receipt had an added $ 1 tip on it. I’m fine tipping, but let me choose when to do so. Frankly disinterested counter service for a few unsliced plain bagels doesn’t do it for me.

I hate to hate on local businesses, but this place was super disappointing and bad!
The bagels were so tiny and crunchy, no bagel texture whatsoever. I shared an onion bagel and a garlic bagel and we couldn’t tell them apart. There was a shamefully small amount of cream cheese on it, and the brunch bagel we got had overdone eggs and rubbery cheese, it was all a damn shame.
There’s nowhere to sit inside except for places to wait. Dumb!
The worst bagels ever. Won’t risk going back, even if this was a fluke of some sort.
Terrible!

Huge selection of fresh bagels. The cream cheese is so delicious. I’ve been a loyal customer for years. They toast the hell out of the bagels. That’s how I like it. I recomend the everything bagel. You get a little bit of almost everything.

Had the most delicious everything bagel here… actually 2 of them! They are freshly made, not expensive, and Very generous with the cream cheese! I’m excited to try more flavors of bagel and cream cheese here soon!

I’ve tried this place out a few times in the hopes that I’d just been catching them on a bad/​busy day however, I don’t think I’ll be returning. The staff has been short with me and all three times my drink has been forgotten, although I’ve been the only customer in the shop, and when the employee has realized, they’ve made no mention of the obvious delay (since when does a vanilla latte take 12 minutes?) I’ve made efforts to be friendly and smile that haven’t even been returned with eye contact. The bagels have been dry and nothing like Kettleman’s (another reviewer compared the two) which wouldn’t be as bad if the service had been even slightly friendly.
I guess I’ll just have to move on in my quest for a good bagel in this town.

I stop in here regularly for a Sunday morning classic lox bagel on garlic. Yum! I also crave the rosemary olive bagel. Nice people, it’s local, and has the best bagels in town!

My favorite bagel place in Portland! I am 23 now and I’ve been going here since I was around 12 years old. I love this place. Excellent bagels, family-​run, the best customer service and delicious cream cheeses! I also love that the owner hires younger high-​school kids.

Über Yum!
Good service. Fresh ingredients. Only wish is that they had pumpernickel bagels during the weekdays. Other than that, great!

I LoVe this place!!! I haven’t had a really good bagel since I left New York in 1994. I have often reminisced about those wonderful bits of doughy goodness!
I have found my Bagel Place! Bagel Land is awesome! There is an awesome selection from standards (plain, onion, etc) through exotic (jalapeño and swiss, etc). They also have Bialeys!
Variety is a key. For sandwiches there are many options like an extensive cheese selection. There are also build your own options. I picked the LEO sandwich (Lox, Eggs, & Onions) with chive cream cheese. On a sesame seed bagel… HEAVEN.
The young lady was an absolute pleasure. Friendly and helpful. This really reminds me of the legendary NY Bagel Stores that I missed so much. Once again, something to look forward to for breakfast.

As many who have read my reviews know, I’m from Jersey and pizza and bagels are two things I can be very picky about. Living in Texas for 13 years nearly killed me on those two items. Thankfully, when my father would visit he’d bring down a dozen bagels with him and I’d be set for a few months. I’d horde them.
Moving to Portland and the land of foodie paradise, I was hoping for some good renditions. I’ve ranted about pizza, but really haven’t had anything good to say about the bagel scene or really tasted much of it. I’ve seen the food cart down on on SW Alder and heard about a place up in St. Johns and I’ve had the bagels from the Sweet Pea Bakery and they don’t even make the bagels. I’ve even had to sink so low as to buy prepackaged bagels from a grocery store. It was sad.
I didn’t see anything like what I grew up with. A simple bagel shop that makes their own spreads and bagels on site. Well folks, Bagel Land is one such a place. It reminds me of a place in Edison, NJ that we used to get bagels at called Bagel Bazaar. All the standard choices, plain, poppy, sesame, cinnamon raisin and others like whole wheat and jalapeño swiss. They also make their own spreads and they had cream cheese and lox spread. Oh happy dance! Belly lox is so much better than nova. Fact, not opinion.
The poppy seed bagel I had was nice and crispy outside and soft and chewy inside. It was also a regular sized bagel! It wasn’t one of these half sized deals that folks want to pass off for $ 1.50. The bagels here are $ 1.25 and when you get a dozen to go, you get a BAKERS DOZEN, 13 bagels. Not many places do that anymore. It’s the little things that make a place like Bagel Land great. How many places do you know that ask if you want salt or pepper on the tomato you added your bagel sandwich? They did, and that is great service.
I will be back, quite possibly tomorrow. You should get there as well. Enjoy.

No, no and no. These bagels are terrible. Too crunchy and they taste like cardboard. It doesn’t matter what you put on the bagel for toppings if you can’t get the core bagel recipe right. Not sure what Portlandians are smoking if they think this place deserves 4 stars.

Not gonna lie. I’m the furthest thing from being a bagel authority. That said, I was pretty bummed at Einstein/Noah’s acquisition of Kettleman’s. Not because I don’t like Noah’s necessarily, but more that I rather enjoyed Kettleman’s and that was soon going away.
So I was pretty stoked to happen upon Bagel Land. Bagels worked for me, and were close enough to my old favorites at Kettleman’s. Moreover, I was amazed at how chipper and friendly the staff was considering how early it was the Sunday morning we popped into here.
Service was just a hair slow — at least, compared to the Noah’s/Panera assembly-​line speed — but probably right on par for a local, independently-​owned place.