The Manna Bagel Company

Wonderful moist flavorful bagels, lots of variety, good coffee. They were open on Saturday during the Rhythm and Roots festival and well staffed to deal with the crowd.

Manna Bagel has great breakfast & lunch selection. I prefer pizza bagel. In the afternoon, Mayfield ice cream hits the sweet spot.

Great place to relax and hang out. The homemade soups and sandwich bagels are yummy and the staff is friendly.

This place is great, the bagels are made on site with a nice variety. The bagel sandwiches are pretty good, are they the best ever in the world like some place in NYC might have, NO but it’s darn good. The soups are on point and the layout is laid back and it’s no problem to hang out there and read a book or be on the computer. Why not 5 Stars? Ok so the service can be a bit slow and the coffee could be better but I would give 4.5 stars if I could. The service is only slow when it’s busy, it’s only busy a lot because it’s good!!! As for reviews knocking it for it having religious themes in the store let me try to open your mind to some things: 1. You are in a community that is very religious and proud of that yet if that makes you not like the place as much first ask yourself that if you went to a place in a town like San Fran and went to a place with some gay themes would you be ok with people modifying their reviews because of that… 2. They do not in anyway preach to you at all, it’s not like that one bit, yes they do have some religious news letters laying around and books, don’t worry, they don’t force you to read them to eat good bagels. 3. Yes they close on Saturdays and have a spiritual service, which is open to the public BTW and very positive. 4. The people who own it run their small congregation and do lots of nice things in the community, is that so bad? I know a lot of small cafés and shops that open their places up for meetings. Summery: it’s a cute little place run by real people in a community where the majority of people are spiritual in some way, again if you went to San Fran would you lower your review if it had a gay employee???

The breakfast bagel is good but that’d about it– espresso is not very good, extremely bitter. The bagels aren’t very tasteful either. The cinnamon raisin is very bland. The smoked salmon sandwich is nearly TEN dollars! A true New Yorker IN NY– is not even 10 bucks. Eh– anyway it’s … Ok … Probably won’t be going back.

NY style bagels in TN! Delicious fresh baked (and boiled) bagels – really addictivel and good. I ate a large bagel with cream cheese and had to talk myself down from getting more. The coffee is not great – a notch above 7 – 11 coffee in a foam cup. Get your bagel here and then go search out a Starbucks. Focus on the bagels and this place is a must visit.

No bring your own cup discount for coffee, Styrofoam everything, distant staff. This place just feels cold. Stark and bleak like a institutional cafeteria. The cashier was bothered by my bringing my own commuter cup, and charged me the highest price available for coffee. I searched out a «coffee shop», but I would have been better off going to a gas station. Two stars is a fairly generous rating, but I noticed that their pricing on bagels and such seemed reasonable, and they looked fresh.

I was genuinely shocked to find the best bagel I have had outside of New York and Miami in my hometown, in the hills of Appalachia. It is a charming shop on State Street, which itself is worth seeing

The bagels are very good but i hope they are open on Saturdays or at least they have to tend somebody to open that day!

The reason that they are closed on Saturday is that they convert the place into a Church/​synagogue each Saturday. I’m a little unclear of their affiliation, it seems to be kind of a Jews for Jesus vibe. For example today they were closed for Rosh Hahanna.
But their bagls are very good, the best in the tri city area. I buy them by the dozen and they freeze really well.
If they would remove the religious tracts and books/​items I would give them 5 stars.

Its a little funky.
Not in a bad way, just in sort of a curious way. 8 AM on a weekday morning and a couple of guys playing chess, another guy absorbed and smiling into his paperback and a group of locals talking politics and current affairs — just another day in small town paradise USA.
Coffee was ok, cinnamon role was ok, service was ok. Not a bad place to visit and start the day.
Plus, check this out… no parking meters on the street outside and plenty of spaces — yeeeay-​ah.

closed on Saturdays!!! Went downtown and it was closed. Looking forward to trying it.

I can put up with the religious slant for their particular sect for the well-​made soup. If you eat lightly, this place is actually quite cheap, but the price goes up quickly if a bagel and soup aren’t enough.
The bagels are quite good, too. Not mind-​blowing, but much better than I expected to find around here.
They don’t mind people sitting for quite a while (reading, on-​line, playing chess, etc.), either. But the music will grate on some people more quickly than on others…