“For instance I like big pillowy bagels with a thin crust and a chewy interior, so I like Ess-A-Bagel.”
H3
5.0/10
AI-generated summary
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.
“For instance I like big pillowy bagels with a thin crust and a chewy interior, so I like Ess-A-Bagel.”
H3
“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.”
H3
“on recent review, I really love the layering effect that the Ess-a-Bagels have. It ends up being almost like a pull apart roll plus the yeasty flavor and crust”
H3
“For example, I love essabagel, but I only go to the midtown one as I live nearby. They make their bagels bigger and chewier than others.”
H3
“Their bagels are soft and bland and without any of the doughy crunch that makes NYC bagels special.”
H3
“The last three times I’ve been to Ess a bagel I’ve been super disappointed. Been super dry, barely toasted, etc. it’s also a shitshow in there.”
H3
“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.”
H3
“A couple of weeks ago, I got bagels from the UES location and was majorly disappointed with both the texture and flavor.”
H3
“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.”
H3
“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”
H3
“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.”
H3
“Dude fuck essa bagel. I went to one in the airport and they microwave eggs and bacon to make a bacon egg and cheese.”
H3