Katz Bagels

Bagels are great — service is horrendous! Came in at 8am for bagels…, 2 people in front of us and the guy behind the counter was off cooking — we waited a long time for him to come out. He briefly came out — didn’t talk to any of us. While there — 4 people walked out cause of no service — losing a ton of money!
Morning guy needs to know how to treat customers, smile wouldn’t hurt, a «be right with you»…
Luckily he at least now has music on when you come in so the silence while waiting isn’t so painful.

This place rules for breakfast. Their bagel sandwiches run a little pricy, but definitely worth it once in a while. Their cream cheeses are solid too. I wish they opened earlier so I could get it before heading into work! Alas, my patronship is limited to the weekends. Haven’t had their pizza (when is this actually served?) but love them for breakfast. Bagels are so important in life.

I’ve been enlisted by others to update my review… I’ve been meaning to update it anyway since the semi-​switch over to Nectar so here goes.
Nectar is just fine… at night… for take out.
However, why oh why did you fix something that wasn’t broken? The breakfast bagels were something that I got about 1x/​week and I may bring other business in during those times. The recipe has changes, and, well the new breakfast bagel sandwiches are bland, at best.
I’m not the only one who thinks so… I personally know several other non-​yelpers who now no longer get the bagel breakfast sandwiches in the morning…
Also, I’ve seen on the local blogs sentiments echoing the same complaint.
In other words, there was a loyal crown for your breakfast offering and you tinkered with it… so, now, I’ve given it three more times and was underwhelmed each and every time. So, no more.
I may swing by for one of your pizzas though, later, and for takeout.

What says «lets be lazy today» like bagels, coffee, and a stroll through a dog park?
Nothing.
2 everything bagels, YUM, smothered in warm low fat cream… cheese? =/​Eek!, and 2 (mediocre) coffees later, we watched some dogs that weren’t ours until one playfully marked his territory on my boyfriend was we were finished. I’ll take Butters the cat any day, tvym.
*To help the confused, they DO sell Katz bagels, but they are now called Nectar. It isn’t closed, merely shifted.

I don’t really get this place. They toast a fairly tasty bagel and lox — but ordering anything from this place is irritating and slightly surreal. Do you have any cinnamon butter? No, says the guy — we do not have any cinnamon butter right now. Oh — when will you have it again? Never. Oh. Okay. Wait — what?
Last week I was there I tried to go out on the patio — it looks lovely. The door wouldn’t open, so I thought maybe they had forgot to unlock it and I was the first customer wanting to go outside. The man working at the counter — same guy — said — it is not open yet. They are working on it. Oh, okay. Renovating? No answer. When do you think it will be open? Oh, pretty soon, says the guy who will never make cinnamon butter ever again. Dude, according to a review on this site you’ve been working on it since 2007. Maybe you should work a little faster? If having a bagel and lox means going to this place — I think I’ll just buy a toaster.

The bagels are pretty good and they have an open and closed seating area in the garden closed patio and in their backyard. Love the Mexican/​Spanish décor and the staff is wonderful. I would hope that they have more bagel flavors, but their homemade cream cheeses are great. Loved their convenience and would come back again if I’m in the neighborhood.

Adorable and inexpensive breakfast spot with great drip coffee. I love their assortment of bagels, especially the jalapeño bagel! Their lox bagel sandwich is awesome too.
Inside it’s hard to remember you’re in the Lower Haight when you’re surrounded by stucco walls and rounded door frames. Maybe Tuscany… If you can, grab a table in the sun room in back.
Now they just need to figure out a way to stay open in the evening. How about a wine bar with bagel bruschetta?
P. S. For the reviewer assuming Katz = cats, Katz is a common German/​Jewish surname. Thank you, wiki!

What is the deal with the new owners? Why are they so rude? They look down their noses at you and act like you’re asking them to eat sh*t when you come into their shop and order one of their overpriced crappy bagels. They have acted this way consistently towards my husband and I.
A few incidents of their nastiness stick out in my mind. My husband asked them how they prepared their breakfast potatoes since he’s got a garlic allergy. He nicely asked the man I assume to be the owner and he got really snotty with and said «I don’t know, it’s just breakfast potatoes» and rolled his eyes. When we got home, guess what? The potatoes were loaded with garlic. Another time I went in and tried to use the Stampt iPhone app for the two bagels I was purchasing. The nasty manager got really hostile with me and said that he thought it was incredibly rude that «some people want to get free bagels» with an app he’s «never heard of.» WTF?! I didn’t deserve to be talked to that way! The manager’s wife (?) always has a rod up her butt too. Every time she’s taken my order and rung me up she’s acted like she’s incredibly irritated.
I’m fed up and have decided never to patronize their bagel shop again. I hope they go out of business. Their bagels have never been that great — (their breakfast sandwiches are barely palatable) — and these new owners with their lousy attitudes have pushed me over the edge.

Katz has the possibly the worst bagel sandwiches I have ever had in my life. Order an egg on a bagel sandwich and you’ll get this soggy sad wad of yeast that tastes like it was just dunked in a fishtank. Order a regular bagel and they’ll shellac a MOUNTAIN of spread on it to the point where it’s hardly manageable. On top of all this the staff is often rude, they are cash only and are overpriced for what they offer. Breaks my heart to see people in here spending their hard earned money on such terrible fodder.
Also, anyone calling this a «great» bagel and saying they’re from the east coast is out of their tree and probably grew up eating Lender’s bagels from ShopRite.

I love that I found a place that serves bagels with vegan Tofutti cream cheese! It is not very common! This place is amazing. I stopped by at 7:30 this morning before work and was in and out super fast!
Bagel with tofutti and avocado is highly recommended! =]
Cash only.

AVOID KATZ!!! I wanted to love this place. It looked so inviting from the outside, and when I first walked by I was so excited to see a cat friendly coffee shop in the lower haight.
Turns out, not only is the place not even decorated like cats, BUT THEY DON’T EVEN ALLOW CATS INSIDE!!! And the person working was RUDE TO ME when I asked them to explain how they would name the place KATZ and not even allow cats!
That would be the same as if they named the place KOFFEE and didn’t have coffee!
Not really sure how they can get away with such false advertisement. At least put a few cat paintings on the dang wall.
Will not return.

I went into Katz with my mother and sister the day after Thanksgiving (Very delayed review…). My mom hadn’t intended on bringing her service animal, but we decided last minute that we were all hungry and wanted bagels. The guy, who projects himself as a manager, straight up harassed her about it. He even aggressively grabbed the dog’s neck to get at and inspect the collar.
I think Katz offers a okay product, but with that guy in charge of the Haight st location, I will not be going back there for reasons that I hope concerns others.

I stopped by Katz Bagels after the bartender at Danny Coyle’s across the street recommended it for breakfast.
The bagel and lox was really good! Just the right amount of onions, tomato and smoked salmon. Most importantly, the bagel itself was really soft but at the same time, perfectly toasted.

Saw their sign outside and dropped in to try an eggplant panini. This was one of the worst sandwiches I’ve ever had. Paninis are supposed to be grilled and kinda crispy, right? This was just a soggy mess. To the point that the bread slices were squashed and soaked to a millimeter thin. Gross. Veggies were overcooked and mushy too. Also, the bottled drink selection was up by the register in a bucket with no ice. So, the drink was warm.
Now, to be fair, I’ve only been this one time and have never tried their namesake bagels. Maybe I just came on an off day. Also, to say something positive, the interior setting was nice. Warm colors and relaxing. Though, from the outside, you wouldn’t see it.

I’ve pretty much exhausted the Lower Haight breakfast/​brunch/​linner scene since I find myself in the neighborhood each and every Sunday watching my San Diego Chargers topsy-​turvy season play out at Danny Coyles. It’s a blue moon that I head into the sports bar with a belly full of food (which isn’t the greatest combo when slugging a mountain of Tecate at 10:00am), so at half time, I storm out like a single locust on the hunt for a tasty crop to sink my teeth into so I don’t black out by 11:30.
Some of my regular stops include Rosamunde, Love ‘n Haight, Memphis Minnies, Mythic Pizza, The Grind, and Metro Café… so in an effort to switch things up a bit, I decided to head directly across the street for a quick morning bagel while my team sat around for 15 minutes eating orange wedges and drinking Capri Sun before heading back to the field for the start of the 3^rd quarter. Unfortunately, it’s safe to say that for the next 8 weeks to come, I’ll likely just stick to the usual suspects.
Not sure if they just ushered in a new staff, but the communication between the register and the kitchen was off kilter to say the least. I witnessed four different people in front of me walk away, then return to the shop because they were given the wrong orders, and when mine was due to arrive, my simple egg bagel went ghost. I had to plead with the folks at the coffee bar to expedite my order as I’d been sitting there for about 20 minutes (for nothing more than a scrambled egg on a jalapeño bagel), and after a small back-​and-​forth, they pushed my order to priority one, as I’d easily been there longer than anyone else eagerly awaiting their breakfast sustenance.
About five minutes later, I finally had my grub, but it certainly wasn’t anything I’d crave anytime soon. It was about as vanilla as a mini van, and it certainly wasn’t worth waiting around for 25 minutes.
This could have been a solitary incident, but if you’re in a hurry, you might want to stop in elsewhere. They do have a pretty beautiful foyer in the back with exposed windows that let in a great deal of sunlight, which you’d never come to expect just passing by on the street. For that alone I’d come back… but maybe just to enjoy a coffee and the day’s Chronicle headlines in one of those bundles of wood pulp called a newspaper. I’d almost forgot they still made ‘em!

Eh, nothing speshhh. 3.5
I’m a little picky when it comes to bagels… I suppose the Jew in me comes out. A bagel is not just a bagel. It has to be just the right amount of softness, denseness, fluffiness, not lop-​sided, etc. Katz’ bagels were not too shabby, I approved. I do wish they had a few more flavor options though, but C’est la vie.
I will give them one thing, the prices were bomb. I can’t argue with paying about $ 5 for a bagel with cinnamon butter, 2 eggs, and a coffee. That’s what I’m talking abouttttt. My kinda deal.
I can’t say for sure whether I’ll be back next time I’m in SF, but you never know. Reading all of these good things about their lox bagel may just be enough to change my mind… my mouth is watering. Now I feel really Jewish. Oy.

Not a whole lot to see here. Just get your bagel and move on. You could hang out in the cool little courtyard thing they have in the back I guess. It seems there’s a lot of space to sit around.
There’s a pretty good selection of bagels. I went with the whole wheat. Grab some cream cheese of assorted flavors or have them throw some egg and cheese in between. Really a no frills place. You’ve been to one bagel shop you’ve been to them all. But at least this one has aforementioned comfortable and ample seating.
Cash only. This seems to be a trend here in San Francisco.

Thank god they were across the street as I stepped into Croyle’s and was told they didn’t serve food.
Not as cozy of a location as their Mission St spot, but did the trick.
I was craving some eggs and meat so I went with the ham and swiss breakfast sammie. But in the end I would have just wanted the bagel with cream cheese.

They’re giving House of Bagels a runnin’ for my money with their delicious asiago bagels and veggie cream cheese! Service is friendly and fast even on a Saturday morning. Bonus star because I’m lovin that they aren’t stingy with the cream cheese. Pile it up, I say. Enjoy!

Started the day off pretty early sucking down drinks at Danny Coyles in preparation for the afternoon game. It didn’t take me too long to realize that if I wanted to make it all day, I was going to need some grub.
I stumbled outside to hunt for food, lucky for me my eyes zeroed in on Kat’s Bagels across the street.
I had been on a lox sandwich kick, so without hesitation I charged on in and ordered.
While I waited I took notice of all the flavored cream cheese’s that had me second guessing my order.
I walked to the back seating room and was astonished of the view of the garden through the large windows.
They called my name, grabbed my bagel, headed back and devoured the delicious lox to the envy of my friends.