SJ Donuts

Typical donut shop. The shopping center sign says ‘donuts & bagels’, but they don’t have bagels. We went there for the advertised, but non-​existent, bagels.

Hours showed open till 3:00. They were close by 1:00. Fix your advertised hours. It’s hard to be able to review a place that can’t get its hours right in the first place.

It’s sad when one runs out of bagels. I usually get mine imported from New Jersey. IE whenever my father comes to visit he brings me a dozen. I usually nurse them and eat them sparingly. But this year me and the kiddo took a trip to Oregon so no bagels were replenished. Sad.
I am not one to buy bagels in Texas. Why? No one gets them right. Einstein’s bagels? Come on. Einstein was a genius but he never made a bagel. Store brand, ummm no. Lenders? Rubber.
I needed to find a bagel place, or at least something passable. Denton has two bagel places. Royals Bagels over by Kroger, which are imported from NJ but are very spendy (to coin a word my brother tends to use in his reviews) $ 1.75 a bagel is nuts. $ 13 for six bagels and some cream cheese is not a good way to spend your money.
SJ Donuts is more about the donuts and kolaches but they have a small bagel selection. Plain, cinnemon raisin, blueberry, everything and I believe strawberry. They are ok bagels. They aren’t going to compare with anything you can get from Jersey, but at only $ 6 for a half dozen and only $ 1.20 a bagel? I can load up some extra cream cheese and still be happy. They are a bit on the small side, and for some reason they like to individually wrap them in plastic. But for value alone, you can’t go wrong vs what Royals offers. I will admit the selection of cream cheese spreads that Royals offers is pretty great and a wider variety of bagel selection.
Either way, it took me long enough to venture over here, and every so often, I know I have an outlet to get my breakfast fix or at least bagels in bulk.
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Large selection of Kolaches and breakfast sandwiches in addition to great donuts and pastries! :) Great, friendly service.