Cool bagel shop. Standard and unusual varieties of bagels and bagel sandwiches. Pesto bagel was a pleasant surprise. Seeded bagels were exceptional.No hole, firm exterior and chewy interior.When I'm in Santa Cruz I'll be back.
If you want and unjustified, over-inflated heaping dose of fear and paranoia to go with your bagel, this might be the place for you! Every other single business in town has recognized that there’s no more masks required NATIONWIDE, public restrooms are allowed, as is indoor seating. But for some reason, the Bagelry can’t seem to get the memo on this. Customers are not allowed to sit down or use the restroom. When I asked when they were going to allow inside seating again? Three terrified employees replied in unison “never!” ?REALLY? How is it that every single other business in town has reopened indoor seating, opened their restrooms… and yet it’s just “too risky” here? I asked why this was, and the mask-free employee said lines go out the door, and people are not wearing masks… ? #irony You mean like 95% of everyone now? Yeah…This is my favorite restaurant in town and I’ve been coming here 30 years. And I’m sad to say, correction: I’m very sad to say! I will never be back until these policies change. Yes, these last 2 years were hard on everyone. But NO, we don’t have to keep living in fear. I never ever thought that I would see the Bagelry in Santa Cruz of all places behaving in this manner.NOTE TO BAGELRY OWNER: please stop being afraid. It’s ok to take the masks off now and resume business the same way you’ve done for nearly 50 years. If all the other businesses in town can do it, I’m sure you can too. Viruses have existed forever, and will continue to exist. Not allowing paying customers to sit down in your restaurant or use your restroom isn’t gonna keep anyone safer, it’s just going to make people angry and drive away business.
House of Bagels is superior. The Bagelry on the other hand is outrageously overpriced and basically a scam. I typically get a Lox sandwich at my local bagelry called House Of Bagels where a Lox sandwich is $7 bagel that comes with cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, capers, and lettuce, and is a hunk of a bagel sandwich . Today I the same order but at the bagelry- it was $13 and about half the size of the House of Bagels Lox Sandwich . Moreover, it had noticeably less capers, lox and tomatoes and didn’t even come with cucumbers or lettuce. I had to pay extra for capers and tomato. ???There is no doubt that at the Bagelry the staff are good and hardworking people, although they rarely show enthusiasm for working their job (specifically calling out the cashier) however in my humble opinion it’s just not the best bang for your buck. Will post comparison photos soon.
Best place to get bagels in Santa Cruz.
Lox 'n cream cheese with red onions on a salt bagel . . . The Best!!?
After having gone to another cafe claiming to have bagels (that were just yeasty bread rolls) we are so glad we found the Bagelry with actual proper bagels and many filling options, especially so many vegan ones - it's definitely very difficult to get vegan schmear anywhere and so happy they had it. They also have a gluten free bagel option though I did not try it. The staff were friendly and hard working, and there is a big outdoor space to eat. And anyone with a framed photo of a special cat on their wall is A+ in my book. ;)
Great bagels, outstanding shmeers, friendly & helpful counter folks!
Great bagels friendly staff. BEST chai in Santa Cruz!!I could go on about bagels at length if only because I grew up on them -- bagel eating was almost a daily routine for me. But the truth is that, although I'm personally passionate about them, this post actually isn't all that personal.Bagels seem simple enough when you start. In the New York Times a few years ago, Ed Levine wrote, quite factually and descriptively:A bagel is a round bread made of simple, elegant ingredients: high-gluten flour, salt, water, yeast and malt. Its dough is boiled, then baked, and the result should be a rich caramel color; it should not be pale and blond. A bagel should weigh four ounces or less and should make a slight cracking sound when you bite into it instead of a whoosh. A bagel should be eaten warm and, ideally, should be no more than four or five hours old when consumed. All else is not a bagel.While a bagel is accurately "a round bread" with a hole in the middle, it's really so, so much more than that. The way we see it around here is that it's always the story behind the food -- not just the bit that we hold in our hands or put in our mouths -- that makes it so much more than just something to eat. Otherwise, why not just go for some of those pills that they used to "eat" on The Jetsons instead of sitting down to enjoy equally nutritious "slow" meals that have actually been cooked?Bagels, it turns out, are very much a bread thread that pulls through hard times, dreams, visions, organizational development, good luck, and good food.It Begins with a DreamOur dream to make bagels wasn't really about doing something sensationally "innovative" in the way that the word is usually used -- this wasn't about inventing the iPod or coming up with the theory of relativity. It was really kind of simple. We wanted to look back in time to the bagel's origin so we could bake a really good, hand-shaped, crusty, chewy bagel we would feel good about making, that would be as close as possible to what was being baked hundreds of years ago.
Love this place chai coffee is the best
Yeah I was feeling very brown and avoided i most def am not coming back to this location ..........when I asked a question I felt a type of way (pesty) said the look on his face.....Adios