Noah’s Bagels

I’d give them one star but they get a bonus as the building they occupy is slated for demolition.
Crummy bagels is all you need to know. The bad service and prices wouldn’t matter if they could deliver actual bagels.

The first step to enjoying Noah’s Bagels is to sign up for their coupon mailing list (they’ll send you coupons such as 50% off a bagel box, which makes the 12 bagels and 2 smears combo only $ 8). The second step is to go early-​ish in the day while the bagels are still fresh and the selection is still good. Good prices, tasty bagels, generally good customer service.

Fast service and that everything bagel is awesome with egg.

I always leave Noah’s Bagles wondering why I decided to go there in the first place. And yes, I have been there multiple times and I promise that today was my last. The Broadway store typifies the Broadway atmosphere and decline over the years. You get hit up for change on your way in and again on your way out. That would be managable if the experience inside the store was any better.
Today, the guy at the counter was pretty much a jerk and looked annoyed to be pulled away from whatever the hell he was doing in the back to help the growing line of customers. The food is bland and boring at best. Anyone who is expecting a real bagel will be sorely dissapointed. They ARE NOT boiled and baked but rather thawed and baked. Basically, it’s just second rate bread with flavor sprinkles on top.
If you are on Capitol Hill and want a bagel make your way to 15^th ave. and go to the Bagel Deli. It’s a bit more expensive but well worth it.

Oh Noah’s bagels thanks for saving my mornings when i don’t have time to cook breakfast :)
my favorite item from their menu so far is the spinach and egg panini with bacon it gets my morning going and sometimes if that’s not enough i get some bagel bites !!
service is fast and nice!
ipb

They say that the definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over again and expecting a different result. If that is true, then I am insane, because every time I go to Noah’s Bagels in Capitol Hill my order comes out wrong, and yet I keep going back there. I’m not kidding or exaggerating: EVERY. TIME.
In fact, almost a year has gone by since I last vowed to never go back to Noah’s, but this morning I caved. I thought, «hey, it’s been awhile. I’ll check out Noah’s.» And guess what? They got my order wrong! And it wasn’t even that busy in there!
I ordered two lox and cream cheese bagel sandwich meals to go: one for me, and one for my husband. First, they forgot the potato salad that comes with the sandwiches. Which is fine; I can see that as an oversight.
However, when I got home, unwrapped my breakfast and bit into my bagel, THERE WAS NO LOX ON MY LOX AND CREAM CHEESE BAGEL. For real. I checked my receipt to make sure I was charged for a lox and cream cheese bagel, to be sure that the person who took my order heard me correctly. Yep, on my receipt: «1 Lox & Bagel + Potato Salad.»
It’s like ordering a bagel and cream cheese and forgetting the cream cheese. WHY, WHY?! Why do I keep going back when this happens to me every time?!
No more Noah’s. Seriously. If you catch me there again, you are allowed to place me in the loony bin.

Service can be slow at times but the bagels are fresh and the lemonade is very good. Don’t go looking for ham though ’cause I’m pretty sure its a kosher.
Decaf coffee there is not that great.

I like to go to Noah’s bagels for a quick morning bagel and a coffee every great once in a while. They’re alright. Pretty content until…
I had one experience at this Noah’s that left a bad impression on me.
It’s pretty stupid to be annoyed, but I paid for a lox and cream cheese bagel (not a flavored smear) and the guy gave me a bagel with a salmon smear.
I pointed out that it wasn’t what I wanted but while I was fumbling for my receipt to show that I did pay for the right one, the guy reprimanded me with a «Oh you ordered the wrong one, it costs more usually but I’ll make it for you THIS time.»
Feeling a bit embarrassed by the implied mistake, I sat down and lo and behold there was my receipt and which pointed out I did order and paid for what I asked for. I was blamed for the employee’s mistake and his «favor» of making me what I had actually ordered was really condescending.
It’s pretty stupid and a bit whiny to get upset about it. I didn’t say anything to them because I still got what I wanted in the end and it was busy after I sat down.
But now I reconsider ordering anything there that requires more know how than cutting a bagel in half and toasting it.
Thanks for making me feel like a jerk for no reason!

The insanely limited amount of «shmear» placed on your bagels is UNACCEPTABLE!

Oy! Service so slow I had to leave!
I went into Noahs on Broadway the other day. Just as I walk up to the counter an employee says hello and then that the other person the would be right with me. I then proceeded to watch the time tick away and my lunch break disappear.
I went to the subway next door got and got my grub all in the same amount of time I wasted watching the girl at Noahs fix a sandwich and ignore the line forming.
Poor poor Noahs girl that must have been frustrating!

We have been hitting Noah’s as of late for a early morning snack instead of going out for a full breakfast
I love the Bacon and Egg on a Jalapeño and Cheddar Bagel, with a glass of Apple juice, also you can get just egg whites if your diet calls for it, then walk my ass over to Vivace for a cup of Joe
its hot and it hits the spot, yeah they are a slow but it is made up to order, so if you don’t have time to wait for some food go else where, the line will be just that much shorter for me I will make the time to stop and get Noah’s

I’ve been meaning to stop by and pick up some of their special cream cheese for a long time. they call it shmear or something like that… whatever. anyways, i got really lucky and found parking right across the street on saturday morning. i was only going to stop in really quickly, so it was perfect. i was a bit disappoined that they didn’t have the honey walnut i was looking for. i’m still kinda bummed. regardless, i wanted something i couldn’t find at the grocery store, so i picked up the jalepeno flavor. i shmeared it all over my toasted onion bagels at home and found it to be super yummy. i want to go by there and try some other flavors again soon. hopefully, it won’t take me months to get over there again.

I’m kind of surprised at such a low rating for Noah’s. Sure, the service can be pretty slow, but they get quite busy in the mornings. The bagels themselves are great, and the pricing is fair.
Every time I go in this place, the place is clean and well attended to. I suppose its a bit of the fast-​food of bagel joints, but I’m happy to return when I’m in the mood for a good bagel– nothing more and nothing less.

The only reason to go to Noah’s bagels is to taste just how terrible a bagel can be. Come on, you’re curious. You are better off going to a grocery store for lender’s.
Still searching for good Seattle bagels… anyone???

Horrible service. They take forever to assist you and when they do — they mess up your orders. The soup is cold, all 8 coffee pots are empty (with the timers run out), they don’t clean the tables… all while the staff gossips in the back. It’s clear they need to clean out the staff here and start fresh… until then, good riddance!

Well –1 star for being ridiculously dirty, papers strewn about, half eaten baggies of chips on the table, tables with crumbs on them.
–1 star for being rude and not having a basic bagel on hand… i mean isn’t it common to have a wheat bagel?
–1 for being rude they made it seem like it was a burden to take my money.
–1 for putting a gross amount of cream cheese and the nasty sun dried tomato bagel. And the employees all were acting like they were on break the whole time shouting and carrying on. I’m all for being casual and having fun but you have to draw the line somewhere…
I did give them one star because I was able to rustle up a Seattle Weekly to read about SIFF.
Too bad such a great neighborhood place is going down, down, down.

Noah what happened to you. I hardly recognized you.
I grew up with Noah’s back in the Bay Area. Huge, delicious bagels, lox and strong coffee. Yeah, And even when the chain first started up here they were pretty good. Some branches are still okay (the QFC UVillage one is pretty good, and much more deli-​like).
But this place is just annoying. The bagels are pretty small, they often don’t have all the lox and spreads they should. The staff here always seems bored and confused and the place is laid out so badly that the line is always jammed up. The sandwich board is near the door, the food case is to the right of the line so people are always bumping into each other.
Just give me a good place where I can run in, grab my bagel and shmear and leave.

Imagine my elation when I moved to Cap Hill and discovered there was a «New York bagels» place just a few blocks from me. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered their bagels don’t even come to par with the Pike Place Bagel Bakery.
There are two major problems with Noah’s bagels:
— too chewy
— too airy
They remind me of Lender’s frozen bagels. NY bagels are not nearly this chewy.
I’ve been there twice, once for an egg+cheese bagel and the other time for a bag of 8 bagels to go. The first time, when I ate there, I heard them mess up 3 to 4 other people’s orders. To be fair, they were pretty busy, but it seemed like an unusually high error rate.

Eating at Noah’s should be treated like a one-​night stand with… «what was your name again?»
I have hunger. You have bagels. I want to eat. You want to sell bagels. Maybe we can come to some sort of agreement here. I buy bagels and eat them, you sell bagels and take my money. I leave with my hunger satisfied, but my soul empty (all hollow inside, like… uhm… a bagel). You leave with my money, and you never had a soul to begin with. We both feel ashamed afterward.
Yeah, just like a drunken one-​night stand.
At least bagels can’t give you herpes.

Call me picky, but all it takes is one gross incident at a restaurant for me to swear it off entirely (ask me sometime about why I don’t eat at Boston Market, or Claim Jumper). The last time I was in a Noah’s — years ago — I saw a fly trapped in the bagel case, buzzing around frantically and putting its filthy fly feet all over the bagels, and that was enough for me. I probably wouldn’t have gone back if a fellow Unilocaler hadn’t taken me, but I’m glad I gave Noah’s another shot.
We were stopping in for a quick breakfast before getting on the road out of town, and just wanted something fast and tasty to go. In addition to the usual bagel flavors, Noah’s offers delicious «gourmet» bagels in more exotic flavors, like spinach & Swiss (my selection), or pesto and red pepper (my fellow Unilocaler’s). My spinach & Swiss was fresh, chewy, and generously coated in cheese and spinach — it almost didn’t need the cream cheese, but I’m glad I got it anyway. The pesto and red pepper bagel, which I sampled, was also delish, though I think it was a bit dry on its own without cream cheese. I also had an iced latte, which tasted just fine to my unrefined palate.
The service was fairly fast, and I had no complaints about the cleanliness of this location. One interesting feature was the bagel guillotine — the server would feed the bagel into the top-​loading shelf, you’d hear this loud SHUNK, and then the neatly sliced halves would fly out into the tray at the bottom. Or, if there’s already a bagel in the tray, the incoming bagel can bounce out and land on the floor, which happened while we watched. Not to worry, the server tossed the fallen bagel into the trash and got a new one — no «ten-​second rule» here.
All in all, I was pleased with the quality of the food and service here, though the gourmet bagels are a bit on the pricey side — one of those with cream cheese will run you $ 3. So while it’s not an affordable everyday thing, Noah’s is a nice place for a weekend treat or a self-​declared special occasion, like kicking off a weekend road trip. Sometimes it’s worth it to give a place a second chance.