Ryan F.
Yelp
Ordered pick-up from Bagel Pub on Saturday morning. The bagels were good, but it was a bit pricey and actually getting my food was a mess.
Quality: Ordered several bagels, and I had a few bites of each. I started with an Everything Bagel With Sausage, Egg, & Cheese, which was the best of the bunch. It was toasted, so even sitting out for a while, it stayed warm. The melty cheese and smoky sausage were perfection. A close second best goes to a Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With Cream Cheese & Jelly. A nice amount of sweetness and the jelly proved a good compliment. I was less excited about the Bagel With Regular Cream Cheese, a little tough and seemed less fresh than the Cinnamon Raisin Bagel. However, the only real disappointment was the Everything Bagel With Nova Scotia Lox & Cream Cheese. It was very heavy on salt, which was certainly not helped by my choices of Everything Bagel or the Scallion Cream Cheese. But the fatal flaw was the fish, which was simply too overpowering.
Quantity: Standard size bagels, the sandwiches are quite large.
Value: $4 for a Bagel With Regular Cream Cheese. $8 for a Bagel With Sausage, Egg, & Cheese. $12 for a Bagel With Nova Scotia Lox & Cream Cheese.
Ambiance: Bagel Pub is a shop located in Park Slope, along 9th Street. It looks like it is going to be a larger space from the outside, but it was a tight squeeze. For new orders, they have you head all the way to the back of the shop and slowly loop around. There is a pick-up area near the front by the register, but it is a disorganized mess. In a small cove they had two tables, which was definitely not sufficient for a busy weekend. The real problem was there was no comfortable space to wait and bodies just piled up.
Crowd: It was extremely crowded on Saturday morning. I thought I was smart to order online, but that just led me to be stuck at the location longer and ignored.
Service: Absolute chaos. The ordering system makes no sense, and they only call out some names on orders. I ordered online, and when I arrived and asked about it I was told it would be a few more minutes. Fifteen minutes later I learn my food had been sitting there the whole time. This was not the case for only me, as many other guests were frustrated by the process.
Parking: A few spots out front, street spots in the nearby residential area.