Bagel Bin
Bagel Bin
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
PokéStop Nearby: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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NY is known for many things: hot dogs, pizza, cool neighborhoods, cold weather, Broadway, and bagels.
So why would you venture all the way to Queens for bagels? Well, you wouldn't, would you? Yeah, didn't think so. Especially when Dunkin Donuts sells a pretty decent variety of bagels and 'schmears.
My friend, whom I was staying with, comes here after church on Sundays, so when I was visiting, we stopped here while in the neighborhoods.
Although there's a Dunkin Donuts about a block away, this place was busy, serving up bagels with various spreads (scallion, vegetable, regular, and lox) or eggs and cheese and bacon if you'd like.
It's pretty reasonably priced…about $2.85 for a bagel with an egg w/cheese and a cup of coffee. The coffee was a bit weak, but the bagel was yummy. Decent selection of bagels and pastries. They also sell cookies…their mini black and white cookies are so amazing!
So why 3 stars? Well the decor itself leaves something to be desired and the menu isn't huge, but the food is pretty solid. Their lunch menu is pretty limited (mostly burgers) as well.
It's a mom and pop type of place, so skip Dunkin Donuts and come here instead and support the little guy…or gal, as the case may be.
With a desire to eat at every bagel location within a ten mile radius of home base, I entered Bagel Bin during breakfasts prime time.
Approaching the display case, five of the twelve bins were bare. Not seeing the need to list the types of the missing bagels, I was peering toward the unkempt preparing area, in the hope to find the pizza-esque wooden spatula, filled with freshly baked inventory which never arrived.
Every bagel had an odd opaque white color, not one had a brown, beige, nor tan hues. Toppings looked so cheap and artificial, clearly I'd only order a simplified breakfast.
The Asian owner was highly engaged in a street talk type of discussion with an equally street patron. Something about getting out of his car, to approach the other vehicle during a traffic altercation. I was highly impressed. Needing to get my day underway, I politely asked if I could interrupt his exchange of F's and alike, a dirty look immediately followed.
The bagels only relationship to the bagel family was its shape. It was pasty and soft with zero taste of the Everything topping choice. I'm finding it really hard to describe its composition, I just hope never to experience that mucky texture ever again.
Cases of torn open beverages, clutter of boxes, ill placed chip racks, all likely a fire hazards. Not to mention the labels clipped upon the bagel bins were constructed of torn cardboard, not even cut, with pen scribble of third grade penmanship at best. Positives? I couldn't find a single one.