Broadway Bagel Deli - City of New York

Efficient, quick service. Got a garlic bagel with jalapeños sun dried tomato cream cheese which was excellent. The coffee was pretty good too. My g/f got a bagel with egg salad which was also pretty good. It's a no frills bagel shop with really good bagels!

Great bagels best on the upper west side. Go for the bacon egg and cheese whole wheat everything if you can! Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

First lemme say, WOW! The bagel size is tremendous.... Service was quick with lots of staff...Lots to choose from in spreads...fairly crowded. So you ask, why only 4 stars? Here comes the negative. First no seating available. Had to take my bagel and cawfee to the Broadway Mall benches and consume breakfast there. Cawfee not that hot. Now onto to the goods. Despite the oversized bagel, seasonings were not only light on the seasoned side but non existent on the bottom. Also the bagel was about 90% cooked leaving it a little too chewy. Decent experience but slight room for improvement. I will go back to give them a second chance at getting to at least the top ten. Perhaps being a busy Saturday led to deficiencies.

My favorite bagels in the UWS is Absolute Bagels but when I know that there are too many people waiting at that place, I come to Broadway Bagels. I feel so sad to say that they are second best, but trust me they are still amazing. Put them anywhere else in America and they will be the best tasting bagels you've ever had. I always get the Everything Toasted Bagel with Scallion Cream Cheese and Egg wherever I go, I really should change it up though. The cream cheese itself is delicious, extremely scallion-y which goes well with the eggs, although I wish they were fluffier. The everything bagel is also delicious as well although the outside bits could be ever so slightly crispier. This is all just nit picky things but I still really enjoy this bagel! Overall, solid bagel place in NYC. The wait here is also pretty short, we waited only 3 minutes on a Sunday morning which I consider a win.

Ok let me break this down for you: 2.2/5 flavor these bagels taste like chewy white bread. 2/5 texture visually, the bagels look like fluffy grocery store bagels. Upon taste...very bready. No crunch, or craggily crust at all. They are hardly chewy, the hallmark of a good bagel's texture. 3/5 ambiance it's kind of dark, commercial chipotle esque, or like a trendy salad spot. It's very busy, the staff is bustling. Nothing nostalgic about it, which is what I really look for in a bagel shop. Overall, disappointing.