The Bagel Basket

This is my family’s go-​to place before a long car trip or when there are people over and we serve breakfast. The bagels taste fresh and you can request various lengths of toasting time (my dad likes his extra toasted, almost burnt — the staff always does it). I get the Jalepeño bagel with vegetable cream cheese. Pretty straight forward, but always hits the spot. Need to come back sometime to explore the menu a bit further. The owner is very nice and friendly.

The bagels here are amazing and they cook there sandwiches perfectly. I would highly reccommend going her if you would like a fantastic sandwich

This really a good place with excellent bargains for breakfast. For $ 6.98 you can get a «COMPLETE BREAKFAST» with eggs, meat, hash browns, bagel & coffee! Nobody else around here has all this for this price.

Whenever I’m early for work I stop in here. The gentleman who makes my bagel is always friendly. I don’t know if they make their own bagels or get them delivered, but I can’t complain. It’s pretty hard to mess up and everything bagel with bacon and cheese .:shrugs:.

There is NO WAY the cream cheese is legit. It tastes gummy.
With the previous owner, the coffee was really good but now it’s watery and lacks body.
The bagels are decent size, but they skimp on toppings. The everything bagel is also especially salty.
Do yourself a favor and go to Dunkin Donuts.

The absolute best bagels you will find around here. Always fresh, a variety of flavors, and to top it all off their prices can’t be beat. I’ve been coming here since I can remember and have never found any bagels better than Bagel Basket bagels.

This place has the best bagels in the neighborhood. I usually buy bagels for my weekend breakfast/​brunch and they are always fresh (the manager said they start baking at 5 in the morning on weekends). My favorites are the jalapeño, spinach, blueberry and the chocolate.
They have some pretty interesting cream cheeses that they mix in-​house. The olive and pimento, scallion and the vegetable being my favorite. Watch out for the jalapeño cream cheese though that one can be pure fire sometimes.
I discovered this place in January and i’ve gone back for the baker’s half a dozen every weekend since.

I think they might be under new management.
I called four different bagel places this morning looking for sun-​dried tomato cream cheese. No one had any made, but Bagel Basket offered to make it for me. When I arrived it was ready. All I had to do was wait for my bagel to go through the toaster.
The manager told me to feel free to call ahead and he would personally make it for me anytime.
Great experience. This is my new favorite bagel place.

Service is slow and unfriendly — bagels are below average — cream cheese is not that great — coffee I had to throw out because it was awful! How do you mess coffee up? — if this place has about 5 customers ordering at the same time, they get overwhelmed — never going back!!!

the everything bagels have topping on both sides.
that’s pretty much the only good thing i can come up with.
dense bagels, on the dry side.
not completely awful, but definitely not good enough to come back for.
ps– they accept credit cards. and they sell lottery tickets.

Bagel — Mediocre at Best, Price was a little too high for me and Place was Not the cleanest. Me and My Wife won’t be going back. Order took to long to come out especially when all we got was a Bagel with Cream Cheese and a Taylor Ham Egg and Cheese. Still think «La Bagel» is the best place for bagels!

Not the best of anything. Bagels taste old; and the only reason I tried the shop was because I saw cops in the shop eating, but if you are limited to where you can go; I would rather stay hungry. Someone left a review stating the its like eating from a NY shop and the fact is you must be related to the owner because this place SUCKS

This place is a rip off. I got a roll with chicken salad which was $ 6.
Go to dunkin donuts instead. It tastes better and you can get a coffee with it for that price.

Hash browns, two eggs, pork roll (choice of meat), bagel OR toast and a small cup of Law coffee all for $ 4.99? Everyday you can get this! And for what you pay for, the bagels are the right size and full of flavor. One star reduction goes to this place for being in the BACK of the South Brunswick Square Mall. How are customers suppose to know that you exist? Word of mouth? Two words; ROAD FRONTAGE.
Recent visits in mid 2014 have left a sour taste in my mouth. Crappy food, bad service and horrible subs. Refuse to go back there again!

Delicious fresh bagels, wide variety of cream cheeses, and good breakfast sandwiches. Simple place with great bagels.

Very good bagels, coffee and more. Not the best in the area but more than edible. Plus they open at 5am and are right on rt 1, can’t beat that! Breakfast special is the best deal around — 2 eggs, home fries, bagel with butter, and coffee for $ 5. Like it.

I am a pretty big bagel snob — being from the NYC suburbs. I am really into my bagels tasting right, and cream cheese being perfect. Over the years, I’ve tried many bagels from many area — and I know that I like my bagels mediumly dense, well baked, and with just the right amount of cream cheese. With these hopes, I went into the Bagel Basket one day after madly craving a bagel on the ride back from jersey to Philly. I had little hope of it EXACTLY meeting my expectation — and while it did fall a tad short, it was pretty darn good.
The bagel selections were normal — from plain, to cinnamon raisin, to sesame, to plain, etc. They did have two specials — a cinnamon sugar french toast, and a cheddar jalapeño. The cream cheese offerings are also the same. I ordered a poppy seed and walnut raisin cream cheese (my favorite ever) bagel — however they were out of the walnut raisin (they also had plain, vegi, sundried tomato — and others I can’t remember at this moment), so I went with the vegi. The bagel wasn’t as round and dense as I would have liked — nor was it very covered in poppy seeds. It was good — not great. The cream cheese was good. Overall, above satisfactory, but not splendid. There was a pretty steady stream of usuals, there are places to sit — and the eggs and bacon that were being cooked smelled great. ALSO REALLY reasonably priced.

Having moved from Astoria, NY recently, and away from the best bagels I’ve ever tasted (Brooklyn Bagel & Coffee Company-​see my review), the wife and I were in search of, at the very least, a close second. This was our first stop on the journey. My bagel (Cinnamon Raisin) was fine. Ample cream cheese and perfectly toasted. My wife was less impressed as the bagel was more dense than she is accustomed to. For now I’ll award 3 stars. I’d definitely go back. It should be noted that people were constantly streaming in at 8am on a Sunday for their bagels. There was never a line, and service always came with a smile… coming from Queens, this is greatly appreciated.