Ess-a-BagelCHAIN

5.0/10

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People split hard on these bagels. Fans want them big, fluffy and chewy. Critics say they are soft, bland doughy bread bombs. The one thing everyone agrees on is skip the , they microwave the eggs. Lines are long, so some regulars buy the , lox and cream cheese separately and build it at home.

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  • Ess-a-bagel is spectacularly overrated. They're soft and bland without any of the crunch or doughy-ness that makes a NY bagel special.

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  • replying to u/I_bought_a_sauna: Answer: This was asked on the comment section of the article and the author responded. They went multiple times and the bagels were not better than the ones on the list. Pretty straight forward.

    I can't stand how 'bloated' the bagels are, like there's no hole in the middle. It's like a mutated species. Please boil and bake a decent sized one. Too doughy basically.

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  • replying to u/halermine: Ess-a-Bagel I have some similarities to the Liberty bagels and maybe a little less sweet. I didn’t notice anything too sweet about the Liberty bagels, but you can just get traditional ones there. Nothing with raisins and you’ll be golden. Ess-a does appear on Too Good to Go and you’d get a lot of same day bagels for pretty cheap.

    A couple of weeks ago, I got bagels from the UES location and was majorly disappointed with both the texture and flavor.

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  • replying to u/redmaester: I personally am not impressed at all by essa bagel

    essa bagels is especially a skip if you wanted a BEC on a bagel, because it’s straight up nasty how they make their egg baked with the bacon in it.

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  • Their bagel sandwiches are terrible for some reason.. I don’t know if they use different bagels for the sandwiches but every time I get a sandwich, even with a bagel with cream cheese, the bagel is dense, hard and unappetizing

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  • There was barely any cream cheese filling in ours, or in the peoples' around us, and Everything seasoning ONLY on the top half of the bagel. The BEC was worse, with pre-made eggs, barely any bacon, just no.

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