Three Star Bagels

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“Their chicken salad is also very good.”

“I've been a loyal customer here bc the bagels and indisputably high quality and it's walking distance from my home.”

Three Star Bagels

Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes

Price range.

$$ Price range Moderate

2 reviews

  1. To start I'd like to mention that I've  been coming to 3 star bagels since I was 10. So I've been a loyal customer for over 14 years!! The reason I rarely go anywhere else is because they really do have the best bagels in the area. And not just the bagels — The spreads; egg salad, tuna salad, whitefish, bruschetta and just about everything else they make is delicious!

    I would give the food five stars — however the prices are dismal. 3 star is more expensive than ny for the same product. I would give the price 1 star.

    The service… Also absolutely awful. Not that it isn't fast, but when I order a bacon egg and cheese and all the bacon is in one small section of the bagel or the same deal with the cream cheese on a cream cheese bagel it's disappointing to say the least especially since you're paying a premium for their bagels.

    They are rude and don't care about how your food comes out. But that doesn't stop it from being very very tasty. Which is why they get 3 stars (they said it themselves!)

  2. I have had a love/hate relationship with this place for many years.  I've been putting off reviewing it as a result, but I think I've finally come to a consensus.

    3 Star makes a good bagel, like the actual plain bagel before adding anything to it.  Whatever their recipe is, it works really well. Nevertheless, I dislike every other thing about this place.  

    First, the customer service is shoddy at best.  They are rude, uninterested, and really don't care.  Why? Because their bagels are better than any other place in a five mile radius most likely. Even the way they spread their cream cheese says "I don't care." Literally never evenly spread.

    Second, the price is too high.  You can't charge me more than a  bagel place in Manhattan.  You just cant! Your rent is nowhere near as high on Columbia Ave in Fort Lee as a bagel place in most of Manhattan.  These guys even charge to toast a bagel, which is simply absurd. A regular bagel with some cream cheese spread is like $3.50-$4 and if you add anything like a single slice of tomato you're going to be in the mid $4's. I once got a bagel with cream cheese and lox and it was no joke like $8.  

    Third, the portions.  They skimp on everything recently.  In the past, they would put a ridiculous amount of cream cheese in a sort of blob shape.  Now, it's a very thin layer of uneven cream cheese.

    Last is quality. Very often the cream cheese here tastes grainy.  I think it's because it's previously frozen, but I'm not sure. In addition, their lox and their in-house turkey looks weathered and unappetizing.  

    Overall, 3 stars because it's a decent bagel despite all the work they put in to making the taste and experience worse.

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