The Bagel Shoppe

This new location is such an improvement over the last. Love the big seating area. Not your NYC bagel, but pretty good for Red Hook!

Sadely, you’ve lost a frequent customer over a last minute «upcharge» at check out, order already and on the counter. A simple Bacon and Egg, no cheese. $ 4.21 as there was a $.050 upcharge when I was rung up to pay. I was told it was for the «cheese» on the Asiago Bagel I ordered my bacon and egg on??? Seriously? Yet the price reflects no discount for the «bacon and egg» «no cheese»? I was obvioulsy set back by this and thank God the place was empty or I would have been embarrassed to boot as I had near exact change on me and had to empty out my wallet to have enough. Mortified! Hate to say, I «shop local» as much as I can but I will not stop here anymore if this is how they feel about $ 0.50 cents and a local patron.

Being from upper Westchester, I have countless options for bagel shops or cafes to get a quick breakfast from. But nothing I have ever been to compares to this local shop. The cream cheese is freshly made from local farms goods and the bagels are so consistently delicious, I have to get 2 everytime. If you stop in Red Hook, this is your go to breakfast.

These bagels are pretty good compared to the sad selection of small, thin bagels seen here in the Hudson Valley. The flavor assortment is pretty good and the bagels themselves are larger and fluffier, which is great. I love that they offer a wide variety of cream cheese flavors, especially the fruity ones. And they have outdoor seating, which is nice on beautiful days like today. The inside seating is larger than we expected, too. No complaints here!

Well the noted Unilocaler is back after a long hiatus of no reviews. Unfortunately, jk47, nick and I had to leave my girlfriend becky behind on this one. We ventured off on a rainy and gloomy Tuesday fiending for a meal that would entertain our appetite. Unsure of where we wanted to eat, nick avello himself suggested we set off into the unknown territory of red hook to find an eatery. After a mile or so drive into the town «the Bagel Shoppe» immediately caught the eye of everyone in the gang. We quickly decided that the establishment was just asking to satisfy our hunger and be reviewed. As we walked through the open door we were overwhelmed with a SWEET home like atmosphere. There was a plethora of customers flocking the register like white on rice, we could quickly sense this is a popular option in the red hook world. The interior of the establishment was complete with all wood floors and wood walls, making it feel as though we were standing inside of a warm log cabin. They had full breakfast and lunch menus featured behind their large display of bagels. Jk47 immediately decided on a bacon egg and cheese sandwich, nick decided on a philly cheese steak (more to come on this later) and I took a long time but finally decided on a steak sandwich on a bagel invention (special to the individual establishment). John and I both greatly enjoyed our sandwiches, but were left with a overwhelming feeling of wanting more. Heres where we really get to the heart of the review… It was quite odd how long nicks sandwich took to get out to him, as the minutes passed by we became more and more uneasy that something was off. After thirty minutes of waiting and nick going to the register TWICE to investigate we finally realized something… They forgot to put in his order… REALLY?! A FORGOTTEN ORDER AT A BAGEL SHOP?! Anyway, once nick got his sandwich he absolutely devoured it from the built up hunger and actually said it had to be the best philly cheese steak he had ever purchased… But WAIT, as we were walking out, the cashier insisted that she simply needed to give nick a full refund! Nick walked away from our adventure with the best philly cheese steak of his life WHICH he didnt even purchase. It was 100 PERCENT on the house. It was beautiful to watch the young cashier makeup for her earlier mistake
We tell it how it is. Nothing is forgotten or overlooked by the 845 review gang.

Good bagels and nice people who could ask for more.

Bagels are ok. Service is not so. Two recent visits server was chatting with the owners while packing our order. Stopped packing to converse. Really?
Next visit server stopped packing our order to ring out another customer.
It gets worse. Server asked if we wanted our CHANGE!
Expecting a tip to put in the counter tip jar.
Unprofessional to say the least.

With respect for the other reviewers, these bagels are just OK.
These are not NYC style bagels and if you’re looking for that, you’ll be dissappointed.
The place is pretty classic bagel joint and it’s got character. The bagels are, indeed, above average Hudson Valley bagels although not was above average.
If you’re hoping to luck out and get a bagel out of the oven, you’re out of luck because the bagels aren’t cooked on-​site (anyone correct me if I’m wrong, pleae)
The bagesl won’t make you sad. Their perfectly fine but they’re not gonna bliss you out like a Murrays Bagel does from 6^th ave.

The bagels here are outstanding. I’ve moved away from Red Hook and was just craving some Bagel Shoppe. You truly don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. It is a no-​nonsense sorta place; you help yourself to drinks in a cooler (many choices from odwalla juice to tropicana to nesquik) & when they run out of bagels, they are done for the day.
I believe the Bagel Shoppe makes their own cream cheese blends (I would recommend the vegetable, it has real pieces of cucumber & tomato!), and I also think the bagels are boiled. They have a great crunch when toasted, are not tough or chewy at all, and all around are some of the best NY Style bagels I’ve ever had. The bagel flavors range from plain to sesame to garlic and onion to bialy to blueberry. There is a small seating area of a few tables, and the ladies will bring your bagel over to you on a paper plate if you don’t want to take it to go. It’s in that plaza just in front of the Lyceum, by the tile store.

I LOVE bagels. Seriously. I could live on bagels. And to be honest, I could eat bagels for every meal. Upstate New York does not know how to make bagels-it’s one unfortunate fact of life around here.
So if I’m craving a bagel, I go to the Bagel Shoppe. They’re fluffy, filling and a great breakfast. Or lunch. I enjoy both of course. And the cream cheese flavors are different and interesting-​the vanilla almond flavor is particularly tasty! Good for a quick bite, and good for a sit down treat as well. And the prices aren’t too shabby either.

Prior to today’s bagel (the one I just now ate at home), I had had a few bagels at this place before. It had just been too long since I had one last, that I’d ever had remembered enough for a review. I’ll make this one short.
Bagel was a little hard than most places, but the bagel didn’t taste stale-​y hard. And from past experiences and looking in their window when they weren’t open, I could see plenty styles of bagel-​bins (they carry plain, sesame, poppy, garlic, onion, salt, rye, cinnamon raisin, blueberry, pumpernickel, everything, egg onion, egg, and, for an additional fee, Asiago), so their bagels always were plentiful. My family went into this business for me (while they were open) and bought me one.
Their varieties of cream cheeses are also plentiful (they carry not only plain and lowfat plain cream cheese, but they also carry homemade strawberry, honey almond, vanilla pecan, scallion, vegetable, lox, tomato basil, garlic-​n-​herb, lowfat garlic-​n-​dill, green olive, walnut and raisin, cucumber dill, cherry vanilla, bacon cheddar horseradish, bacon cheddar jalepeno, and roasted red pepper). Just amazing what varieties you can get out of this place. Their rich and creamy, something you don’t get with those creamcheeses from most stores and Dunkin Donuts (and whatever bagel place you choose nationwide).
But these aren’t the only items you can buy at this place. You can also purchase items from their lunch specials menu (new yorker, BLT, pizza bagel, monte cristo, and many others), along with hard rolls and some flavored wraps (plain, whole wheat, garlic-​n-​herb), and omelets, along with some salads of assorted variety.
Prices are a little steeper, but not by much.
Although they have a small area in front that has a few tables, they do have another area (that isn’t handicapped accessible, containing a short step (just one step then a tiny-​short step to the floorboard). This second level of seating is always a popular place for most user’s to sit.
The only problem I find with this place, is their hours. Their hours seem like they close well after my job lets out, and open well after my job begins. They never seem to be open when I’m available, and since I’m not a morning person on the weekend, that one’s out too.
(And just remember, just around the corner, theirs a 6-​screen movie theatre, but that’s for another item here on Unilocal.)