“For instance I like big pillowy bagels with a thin crust and a chewy interior, so I like Ess-A-Bagel.”
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“For instance I like big pillowy bagels with a thin crust and a chewy interior, so I like Ess-A-Bagel.”
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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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“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”
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“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.”
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“Their bagels are soft and bland and without any of the doughy crunch that makes NYC bagels special.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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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“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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“Dude fuck essa bagel. I went to one in the airport and they microwave eggs and bacon to make a bacon egg and cheese.”
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“seriously the FiDi one is awful. The bagels aren’t fresh — somehow they are both rock hard and kind of mushy at the same time.”
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“Ess-a is way better in my opinion. By 1pm at Tompkins nothing is less than 2 hours old. Ess-a keeps pumping them out later in the day so you can still get a warm and fresh one in the afternoon.”
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“Since H&H and Ess-A-Bagel turned the NY bagel from a reasonable-sized, flavorful, chewy (but not stale-chewy) delight into a bland, doughy, gigantic breadbomb we’ve struggled to keep up with even Boston.”
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“ever since H&H and Essa became the standard (fluffy dough bombs that look like they got stung by a bee and their holes swelled shut) it’s been an uphill battle finding a truly great bagel.”
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“4/5 nice but salty”
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“decent bagel but I felt it lacked lox”
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“It left out my favorite bagel shop, Ess-a-Bagel.”
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“amazing bagels”
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“good value for money and it feels walking into an old time classic”
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“bagels (ess a bagel)”
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“I'm not a huge fish fan and I wasn't particularly excited to try a NY bagel. But this was so simple and good. I thought the amount of spread was comical but it worked so well. **5/5**”
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“Bagel had good crust, good chew, faster line.”
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“But when I revisited them after back-to-back days trying dozens of other excellent bagel shops, I found they didn’t stand up to the ones with distinctive crusts and chewy crumbs.”
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“raisin bagel with apple cinnamon cream cheese from Ess-a-bagel 7/10”
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“The sauce on this one reminded me of Spaghetti-Os, which may be instant comfort for some and a turn-off for others. Better cheese than Black Seed, still quite a lot of it but you can always slough off whatever you don't want.”
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“one of my preferred bagel spots”
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“I think they absolutely suck especially untoasted.”
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“Breads bakery babka, levain cookies, or essa bagels”
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“My last two visits to the midtown location have been worse than they used to be unfortunately. Much smaller size and less fresh tasting. Flavor is still great though.”
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“Pumpernickel Raisin with lox-chive cheese. Austerity measures in place so no Nova Scotia. @ Essa Bagel.”
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“It’s only worth it when you walk in to buy their bagels and lox and cream cheese separately, and assemble at home. Tastes the same, in an out in 5 minutes max plus the bagels are hot!”
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“Couldn’t look at Ess the same ever since I saw that they microwave their ingredients for a bacon egg and cheese. Just fucking unforgivable. Basically a hate crime.”
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“If you want your bagel to have the consistency of sponge cake, this is your spot!”
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“Yeah Ess-a-bagel has good bagels but they should have stopped there. Instead they went full sandwich shop, but everything is just microwaved.”
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“Their bagel are both delicious and massive.”
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“For many of us, Ess-A is what we are looking for in a good bagel.”
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“bagels (Liberty, Ess-a-bagel, Utopia)”
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“Place has better bagels than Black Seed, Thompson Square, and Essa Bagel imo”
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“John’s of Bleecker and Essa bagel are not overrated! They are 🔥🔥”
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“Good bagel, lots of flavors of cream cheese, lots of sandwich options and you can even get an egg cream.”
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“Ess-a-bagel is not good. It's that simple.”
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“My favorite bagels are from Ess-A-Bagel in Stuytown”
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“Essa bagel is a must but the lines are a bit insane :)”
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“Ess-a bagel would be my goto, garlic avocado cream cheese is so good.”
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“essa bagel is my favorite NYC bagel. Also think one of the better cinnamon raisin bagels”
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“Essa bagel much better for a bagel spot”
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“Rookie mistake getting a bacon egg and cheese from Ess-a-bagel. They microwave that shit.”
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“Ess-a Bagels travel really well because they're larger/have a thicker crust to keep the inside chewy.”
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