postPop Up Bagels87 pts
“Genuinely AMAZING bagels, so fresh and hot. I love the unorthodox rip and dip style of it. Each bite was amazing.”
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“Genuinely AMAZING bagels, so fresh and hot. I love the unorthodox rip and dip style of it. Each bite was amazing.”
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“hands down best bagels we have ever had. Warm, slightly crispy exterior with the dense, satisfyingly chewy interior.”
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“Pop up bagel is awful. There, I said it. Once their bagels are cool, they're just aggressively sad bread. No crunch, no substance, and tiny dainty bagels.”
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“it did smell really good”
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“I don’t get the hate for it tbh. One opened up in UES and it’s definitely the best bagel shop I’ve been to in the area, as long as you’re not looking for a full sandwich.”
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“That's not what these bagels are like. They're light and hot and fresh with a crisp outside and a slightly chewy inside.”
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“Pop Up bagel shouldn't even be considered a bagel. They won't give you a single bagel, they won't cut it, and most importantly the texture isn't right. They can pay as many influencers as they want, but that place doesn't deserve to be called an NYC bagel shop”
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“Pop up is better than 95% of those places, but many people on Reddit are fundamentally anti-growth, so expansion = bad.”
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“Popup bagels was so mediocre. We had them fresh and they were salty as hell and nothing home to ride home about. Cream cheese wasn’t good either and like a brick.”
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“Pop-up bagels aren't even good later in the same day. They're tiktoks idea of a bagel. Good in the moment but extremely fleeting.”
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“Their topping adherence and crust are pretty top notch.”
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“Tastes like lenders or some Midwest bagel. Their cream cheese is acidic like the catering version of Philadelphia. Just awful”
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“Crisp, light and airy, and chewy when it counts, this bagel really is optimized for the rip-and-dip.”
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“The bagels I got were also literally right out of the oven and I appreciated how fresh they were 🙂”
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“And it turns out, there's really not much flavor in them.”
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“They aren’t bagels. They’re crusty rolls with holes poked into them baked on sheet pans instead of bagel boards.”
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“There whole thing is the bagels are all hot and they have the spreads to dip, if you’re not eating it right away though and it cools down it’s a real unremarkable bagel”
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“Popup bagel is trendy and meh. They're too small, and they don't really have a good texture, not to mention their choices of toppings is pretty lackluster.”
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“they're better than anything else I've ever had. Great crust but still so pillowy, overloaded with everything, fuckin delicious.”
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“They're also very much non-traditional bagels, but they're certainly good for what they are. They nail the crust and topping distribution, but they're super fluffy, which is weird, but then they lean into it with the expectation that you're going to be ripping them apart instead of slicing. Certainly worth doing if it's nice out.”
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“Popup is just so damn good because you see like 30 of them come out of the oven every few minutes, and can literally ask “which came out most recently?””
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“Literally always hot and fresh out of the oven. It’s a rip and dip situation so you get as much (or little) cream cheese as you’d like. Rotating cast of special cream cheeses are fun too.”
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“Yes! Significantly better. The only downside is they don’t do bagel sandwiches, just the whole bagel + a tub of cream cheese on the side. But on the other hand that ensures you have the absolute freshest bagel. They’re literally steaming when you get them.”
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“Popup Bagels... is kind-of-ish a trap? Like out of the oven they're really good, as with all freshly baked breads. But they become a solid rock after a few hours that you could commit murder with since they're not using traditional bagel techniques (as Joe Rosenthal says "a hole poked dreck").”
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“The bagels themselves are a fine take, but I found them to have odd crust and were too salty.”
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“Pop Up Bagels - so much hype, and it boggles the mind when there are real NYC bagels at any corner deli. Yes it’s nice to eat a hot bagel, but if you let it cool down you’ll realize it actually just tastes/chews like round bread, it is not a real bagel”
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“I agree though they are fluffier than a bagel is supposed to be. But perhaps because they are designed for that rip-and-dip? Also, flavor is fairly light, but they do have flavor. The seasonings are well-proportioned, really liked the poppyseed.”
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“the flavor of the cream cheese is flat and the texture of the bagels is very dense...almost like they are rushing the fermentation or something? It's not the same. There's no use in expanding something that's worse to a mass market if people who used to like your product stop buying it.”
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“I don’t understand why there’s a line out the door, for a bagel that’s $2.50+ and almost half the size of any other bagel you can get anywhere else a block away.”
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“pop up is an extremely good bagel. Yea it’s annoying with the long lines and marketing but they make a quality product- fresh, hot, soft on inside and crunchy on outside, everything seasoning on point and cream cheese is delicious.”
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“Pop up bagels really is the best - they constantly make bagels throughout the day so you are always getting a piping hot bagel…just fantastic”
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“Popup bagels (no wait and gave us a ton of shmear, very good)”
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“bagels were delicious. 9/10”
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“I found the salt bagel way too salty, but the everything was amazing”
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“Amazing for what it was. We both loved the rip and dip but I personally thought it was a little basic.”
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“We ended up really loving these though. The everything bagel was our favorite dipped in that fluffy scallion cream cheese.”
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“I know there are varying opinions in this sub but these were great. The sesame was the best out of the three.”
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“Bagel was nice and hot from the oven.”
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“PopUp Bagels has mastered the art of the gimmick, though - I'm very biased towards them, but I hate cream cheese, yet loved the cheesecake schmear.”
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“Great snack. Great novelty. Love a warm bagel. But it’s not a bagel breakfast destination for me.”
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“they threw me an extra fresh & hot bagel for free, never disappoints”
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“Pics 5-6 Pop Up Bagels: silky soft, crispy, smooth schmear. So worth the trip.”
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“Felt that they were overrated tbh — texturally just like a roll of bread and also didn’t have much flavor.”
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“quality fell all the way off after expension. cream cheese is whipped up now and the flavors are ass”
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“it was never good. it's hole-poked bread, not a bagel.”
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“Popup bagels are like a new and improved fresh version of all the plastic bag bagels midwesterns had and are now forcing the hand of bagels to change to the preference.”
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“i believe pop-up bagels should be sued into extinction and ignominity”
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“Their bagels are ass”
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“Overpriced trash.”
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“Popup, for me, isn’t really a bagel.”
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