Tasty Bagels is located on a cute corner in a nice building with ample parking, in a mostly residential area but quite close to huge office buildings and the shopping mecca that is Paramus. It's also close to where I live, so I had high hopes. The couple that runs/owns the place seems very sweet and attentive.
However, I went there on a Saturday morning at around 10:30 and was initially the only patron, although 3 other people came in during the time I was there. The space is somewhat dark and dingy – not unclean, but not screaming "eat here" either. The beverage case was sparse. There were exactly three muffins – one chocolate and two cranberry. The meat case was truly pathetic, with some tiny portions of turkey and a couple others and about 5 spreads that appeared to have been there for a while. Coffee selections were decaf or regular – no flavors.
I ordered a bacon, egg and cheese on a garlic bagel (breakfast sandwiches can be an awesome test of a bagel place). They were out of garlic bagels (already?!). I changed to a plain bagel. It was not great. The bagel itself was cooked properly and had a lovely golden crust, but it was tasteless. The egg was cooked to death (seriously, very dry), and the bacon selection was flatly wrong. Bacon on an egg sandwich should be thinly sliced and flavorful. This bacon was thick and lacking any of that sinful bacon flavor. Overall, it was not a horrible sandwich but it was disappointing.
Over the past few years this place has just continuously gotten worse. I used to come here as my main bagel shop, but have moved bagel shops for the past few years. From time to time i do go ahead and try the bagels here in hopes to see if they have stepped their game up.
Ive come to realize that the lack of costumers to the shop has created a lack of effort from the owners. I feel as though its hit or miss whether or not you are going to get a fresh bagel and a stale bagel. Being from New Jersey my whole life i feel as though im a bagel connoisseur and will not stand for a stale bagel.
I feel that this place wont be around for very much longer due to the other bagel shops in town. Which is upsetting because the couple that run this place are very nice.
This place makes me sad.
Tasty Bagels is located on a cute corner in a nice building with ample parking, in a mostly residential area but quite close to huge office buildings and the shopping mecca that is Paramus. It's also close to where I live, so I had high hopes. The couple that runs/owns the place seems very sweet and attentive.
However, I went there on a Saturday morning at around 10:30 and was initially the only patron, although 3 other people came in during the time I was there. The space is somewhat dark and dingy – not unclean, but not screaming "eat here" either. The beverage case was sparse. There were exactly three muffins – one chocolate and two cranberry. The meat case was truly pathetic, with some tiny portions of turkey and a couple others and about 5 spreads that appeared to have been there for a while. Coffee selections were decaf or regular – no flavors.
I ordered a bacon, egg and cheese on a garlic bagel (breakfast sandwiches can be an awesome test of a bagel place). They were out of garlic bagels (already?!). I changed to a plain bagel. It was not great. The bagel itself was cooked properly and had a lovely golden crust, but it was tasteless. The egg was cooked to death (seriously, very dry), and the bacon selection was flatly wrong. Bacon on an egg sandwich should be thinly sliced and flavorful. This bacon was thick and lacking any of that sinful bacon flavor. Overall, it was not a horrible sandwich but it was disappointing.
I won't be back.
Over the past few years this place has just continuously gotten worse. I used to come here as my main bagel shop, but have moved bagel shops for the past few years. From time to time i do go ahead and try the bagels here in hopes to see if they have stepped their game up.
Ive come to realize that the lack of costumers to the shop has created a lack of effort from the owners. I feel as though its hit or miss whether or not you are going to get a fresh bagel and a stale bagel. Being from New Jersey my whole life i feel as though im a bagel connoisseur and will not stand for a stale bagel.
I feel that this place wont be around for very much longer due to the other bagel shops in town. Which is upsetting because the couple that run this place are very nice.