Einstein Bros Bagels

Don’t you hate it when all the cream cheese ends up on one side of your bagel? Yeah… Me too.
I’ve been on the Auraria Campus for 4 years now and I’ve probably come to this Einstein’s all of 7 times. Why you ask? Because it needs a little help. It feels so OLD in here. And kinda sketchy. It’s always muggy and clammy. Yes, there is a study area upstairs but I avoid it at all costs because I’m afraid I might fall through the floor at any moment.
As far as food goes, I stick with bagels when I come here. To be honest, I’m afraid to order anything else. The bagels are decent; never old or stale. I do feel like the amount of cream cheese is always off though. Either I’m swimming in it or I’m wondering if I forget to order it.
I wish they had more of those yummy coffee cakes, but they’re always gone when I come in. Shame.

Very inconsistent. I always get the same order.
Mushroom, spinach, Swiss on Everything. Hold the mushroom.
Time before last they added mushrooms (or rather, didn’t omit them)
Most recently, they put it on a plain bagel (yuck)
Of course, I’m already halfway to class before I notice and there’s no time to go back.
Avoid.

Good bagels! Just sucks when they’re busy. But early in the morning before my 8 o’clock class, there’s never a soul there. The staff is nice and the bagels are always good. My favorite is the wheat bagel with the jalapeño cream cheese, spicy as hell, but VERY yummy!

This location is consistently closing early and running out of bagels (how does a bagel shop run out of bagels?!). Only 1 out of the last 5 visits I was able to buy a bagel (either because they were sold out, or their doors were locked early).

The BAT (bacon avocado and tomato) and iced coffee has made many a night class possible for me. This is one of my favorite places and I come in almost every time I’m on campus. I am more familiar with the afternoon staff and they rock! Super friendly and super fast.
The upstairs of the building has been filled with tables and chairs and converted into a great study area. If you get luck you can snag a table by a window and watch the people outside in 9^th Street Park.
BEWARE: This place gets slammed during busy school hours and there is frequently a line for food (jump to the front if all you want is a drink).
TIP: If you aren’t staying on campus for long there is free 20 minute parking near by!

Chaos! first time I walked in and said there was no way in hell I was standing in a line that went all the way upstairs, and I subsequently fell asleep in my class. The next time the line wasn’t any better but I stood and surprisingly they got me through really quick and I got a pick me up in a cup. It is a good stop for a mid campus cup a joe.

I’ll make this short:
If you like speedy service, don’t come here
If you like service that isn’t angry and rude, don’t come here
If you like food that is well prepared, don’t come here
If you like restrooms that aren’t a pigsty, don’t come here
I wish Einstein would do an indepth inspection of this facility, so that they can make it like their other locations. I come here only when I’m desperate, but wish I would remember that the staff acts like they have better things to do than serve you, the food is always slapped together, and generally burnt, and the wait is killer if you have to get to class. Hell, it’s too long even then! And the restrooms…*shiver*
This is it. I’ve come here for the last time. I’d rather suffer through class with a rumbling tummy than eat here ever again.

The food is pretty good, just like a normal Einstein’s. Their coffee is good but the service is terrible. I understand they are busy, since it is always packed during the semester, but they don’t handle it well. They need to better organize themselves and perhaps make something like an express line for those ordering coffee as opposed to those getting food and coffee. Never been into the bathrooms, but now I definitely don’t want to based on the reviews! An okay place on campus, but not a great Einstein’s bagel compared to others.

This place is busy during the semester!
I keep it simple, coffee, or tea.
Occasionally a bagel that always comes
with plenty of cream cheese.
Best best is to know what you want and pay attention.
The line gets busy with sorority-​girl-​ditzes-​to-​be and that
can sometimes be quite irritating, but the staff is friendly,
and the seating and free-​wifi upstairs make it a great place
to get stuff done on campus!

I go here out of sheer desperation most days.
I have never gotten anything meaty or eggy here because, well, I have eyes, and yes, I can see those microwaves! (I hate microwaves)
I stick to a honey whole wheat bagel (when they have it) with honey almond cream cheese.
This place is PACKED everytime I’ve ever came in. The staff, is very, very busy but they still are quite friendly (most of them)
I like that they are consistenly unstingey with cream cheese.

Love the Lox on an everything bagel! Cheaper by the way if you buy a pack of lox.

A long, long time ago, in a faraway place called Berkeley, California, there was a bagelry called Noah’s. Noah’s was famous among locals and revered for its perfect bagel: crunchy on the outside and deliciously chewy on the inside. Noah (actually the name of the owner’s son– I know this because we went to high school together Back In The Day) was actually the first to popularize the term «shmear» …aside from your Yiddish Bubbe, of course. Noah’s knew from bagels, and everyone was happy.
Then Noah’s went big. Like, REALLY big. Like, bought-​up-​by-​McDonalds-​or-​something, big. And they became Einstein Brothers. For the record, there are no brothers named Einstein (or any other such recognizably pseudo-​Jewish names) involved. But you know what? They mostly stayed pretty true. Usually, I can toss back one of Einstein’s bagels and be fairly content. I mean, they’re no NOAH’S… but they’ll do.
Mostly.
However, this Auraria location is just crap. It’s so hit or miss, depending on who’s making your stuff. I’ve had one of the best bagel sandwiches ever made by an Einstein staffer ever… followed up by several dozen of the worst. And remember that whole «Ohmygawd, E. Coli in the Spinach!!» scare of 2006? They, like everyone else, stopped offering spinach in their egg-​n-​bagel sandwiches during this fiasco. Okay, all fine and good… but when the mania had long since passed and all spinach was once again cleared for public consumption, somebody forgot to tell this Einstein location.
I kept asking, of course. And they kept giving me the old E. Coli story. Like I was living under a spinach-​newsproofed rock or something… *BIG eye roll here*
This location is just so very inconsistent, and when you’re BIG (like, owned-​by-​a-​huge-​company, big), you need consistency. However, I’ll give them two stars because if you go there close to closing time (I think they stay open until 6 or 7), and they still have soup… you’ll probably get offered a bowl for free.
I like free.