Bagels For You

Very nice place and good food. Sorry that It came to my attention to write a review like this but this place has the worst customer service ever. The staff loves to ignore their customers and focus on their personal work in the back, I had to wait 15 minutes for that deaf Russian guy to hear me am while taking 3 people ahead of me. Not to mention they have a small sit in space.

I go there on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The food is great. There is no bathroom, so this is not a place where you should sit for hours on end.

Great bagels, fast service and great location!
My fave everything bagel toasted, white fish tomato and scallion cream cheese! Sounds nasty but I promise you it’s the most delicious damn bagel you’ll ever taste and this place makes it the best!
Fresh bagels highly recommended!

Hard cookies very stale and mediocre service. Good prices however for the neighborhood

Decent breakfast selections, a Buffett section isn’t bad. Overall, it’s pretty expensive.

Weak bagels. Got plain bagel with plain cream cheese. Tasted like a roll, not a bagel. Deff not even close to my favorite. I’m a huge bagel boss fan so everything gets compared to them. Oh well.

I came here on a Saturday morning for a late breakfast since my breakfast buddy is a regular here.
There was a line but it moved pretty fast since there were about three people behind the counter helping customers.
I decided to go with an egg, turkey bacon and cheese on a toasted croissant and it was pretty tasty and it didn’t take long to get after placing our order.
They had a few selections of spreads and pastries, the only negative was that their bagel selections were limited and I didn’t see any whole wheat which are my favorite but I didn’t ask so maybe they were just not on display.

This bagel shop is my 2^nd choice for bagels in the morning.
That doesn’t mean that they aren’t good. I think if they opened just a tad early than 7am it might sway me to grab my bagel fixes here more often. Having to get to work earlier than most people sometimes doesn’t gives the best options breakfast wise.
The service has been steady. Most times they are good, some times they are great.
I normally just get everything bagels with jam but they do have sandwiches here as well as the option for making sandwiches in bagels. I’ve tried a few and waiting on a few more before I make my final judgement but it’s all been delish. You can always refer to my pictures for clarity.
FAN.

The place looks awesome! We are so happy they reopened! Customer Service has improved and so has everything else! I mean they were always great but now they’re amazing!
If you’re here try their burgers! Taste home made and their chocolate mousse cake yum yum yum yum

Very good bagels and fresh, just recently got redone redecorated. Coffee also excellent. I would recommend this place for breakfast or lunch. They also have a grill and fresh juice. So if you want a grilled sandwich it’s a good place for that as well.

TASTY BAGELS! They sell some delicious bagels and the prices are reasonable. That is all.

This place is overly priced. I’ve been there once because they charged $ 18 for 1 bagel w/​cream cheese, 2 bagels w/​ham & cheese, & 1 black coffee. For that price I could go to the grocery across the street and buy enough bagels and cream cheese to last all week. To top it off, the cashier made some off-​comment to his coworker about my name when I handed my credit card. I know I have an unusual name, but do you have to be that rude?
I’m giving it 2 stars because the bagels were okay.

That Everything Bagel is the bomb.
What’s in that thing??? Lol
Everything Bagel with some butter, one egg, and bacon. Large coffee. Love This Place.

No. If I’m going to pay just under $ 4 for a toasted everything flat bagel with veggie cream cheese, it better be a damn good bagel. This, was not. Edible? Yes. Good? Eh, not horrible, but certainly far from a solid NYC bagel. There are plenty of good bagel spots in the area, however, this was not one of them.

Having to call out «Hello», «Is anybody working the front today?» is really not the initial start I had hoped for, but it is how my day began at Bagels For You.
After a fleeting feeling of turning around and walking out, an employee who was clearly not a counter worker emerged from the back.
He begrudgingly took my order, but kept a pleasant demeanor and got my order in the bag without haste. Within five minutes, the counter girl appeared and really did not take much notice nor interest in the slowly growing line behind me.
The everything bagel with cream cheese I ordered did not have any «wow» factor, just a standard Forest Hills bagel. However the coffee was really terrific and is the main reason that I may make a return trip to Bagels

I adore this bagel shop. Extra initial points for being warm, friendly, and making their own bagels. The staff are lovely.
Best food:
Bagels (duh) — everything bagel in particular.
They have great cream cheese choices, my favorite being garlic and herb.
Mini bagels are also awesome if you want your bagel fix but you’re not starving.
Iced tea — it’s sweetened and lightly fruity. A nice surprise!
Only great things to say about this place.

I live right around the corner so I may be a bit biased, but I love this bagel joint.
It’s typical Forest Hills — The staff is friendly, the service is quick, the prices are reasonable and the bagels are always fresh and tasty.
My favorite go to selection is an everything bagel with cream cheese with a slice of tomato or a bagel with bacon egg and cheese. The everything bagel here is garlicy and delicious. When I go to other bagel spots and order an everything bagel I’m always thoroughly disappointed — the taste is just not the same.
I did get cookies and a muffin once and wasn’t really impressed … but they’re not really a bakery so I don’t hold that against them. In addition to bagels, a few pastry items and beverages, there is also a salad/​food bar in the back that you can also select your own portions of.
The staff behind the counter is quick and efficient and has my order memorized so my wait time is under 3 minutes — great when you’re in a rush — but there is also seating if you want to stay!

OK, aesthetically and culturally this place is a great reflection of Forest Hills/​Kew Gardens ethnic mix — it represents the historic Jewish community (Kew Gardens is where Josef Heifetz, the famous violin virtuoso went for lessons, the formidable pianists the Lhevinnes taught and lived, and Rodney Dangerfield called Kew Gardens home till the end of his life) but of a more recent group — from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. Yet it represents other ethnic groups of Queens with some staff hearkening from Central and South America. The customers are from the area as well as workers.
Definitely a go-​to place if you live or visiting the area. Is it worth traveling from Manhattan or elsewhere? No but definitely worth contacting them to prepare their buffet food for a party or function if they deliver out to you.
Décor — a strange mix that is good in a quirky way. The front looks like a typical deli but with the glass walls in the front gives it plenty of light. On the walls are two laquered paintings of medieval pesant Russian scenes while behind the counter is a reproduction of a portion of a famous Chagall painting. Racks of bagels are underneath the painting and a mirror reflects the ceiling reproduction of the Chagall to give it greater size — clever.
Those pieces of art work and quirky placement give the place 4 stars — it shows they care about the place.
The buffet and some of their desserta (the apple blintzes (I think) and their cookies are very good) gets 5+ stars —
The buffet I find consistently excellent and the mix of ethnic foods and some healthy choices is great. The various meatballs, pierogies, kasha is always spot on. Their salmon is good and I love the variety of salads they have — avocado, ceasar, red beet with walnuts, etc.
Strangely what should be easy is what I think is their Achilles heel — see below
Bagels/​Coffee/​Juices — 3 stars.
I don’t think they are bad at all, but I think they reflect a style of bagel making that is out of style — much breadier with somewhat crisp outside (if it were 1989, these would be consider very good NY bagels). The one exception is their whole wheat bagels which are very good. Coffee is OK, it is deli coffee and good but don’t expect the Starbucks or artisinal style that is more popular. Juices look good and are freshly made but I have not tried them.
Spreads — not sure have not had them
Muffins — 2 stars
They are the yougurt muffins you can them get anywhere.
Customer Service −4−5 stars
Attentive, friendly and fast. And willing to have a quick chat if time permits.
My one recommendation to make the place 5 star overall is for the owner to shop around and check some great bagel and spread places — Brooklyn Bagel in Astoria is my favorite. I don’t think they should change their bagels that much — it is a nice alternative to what you commonly find these days, but I think they could get ideas to improve it.

I had a bagel (toasted) with butter on Sunday mid day.
I don’t think bagel had right texture. It was very spongy.

Bagels is just part of it. They have a really excellent buffet-​salad bar. The fish is delicious. You get an excellent balanced meal (meat or fish and 2 vegetables and a starch such as potato) with a drink for like $ 7.50.
The place is clean.
I would drive 10 miles to here for a good cheap meal.
PLUS — if you go after 5:00 PM you get one dozen bagels & a buffet-​salad bar meal for $ 4.99. I don’t want to say I wait outside until 5:01but I kinda do.