Coney Island Bialy Bakeries Company

The place has held a special place in my life. The onion mixture in the bialy center has changed from my childhood and not for the better but it still evokes the wonderful memories of my parents coming home late night with a bag of still hot baileys and a pletzel. Then the difficult decision was to eat it with Tempte cream cheese or toast it adding Breakstone red tub butter and sprinkle on some salt. Actually why waste time deciding when you could be eating the one with cream cheese while waiting for the other to be toasted! Still the best bialy anywhere in USA and I’ve tried most places.

Came here for the Bialys which were great but discovered something even better. This place has some awesome flagels (flat bagels), perfectly chewy on the outside and soft on the inside but not too much dough. Will definitely be back for those flagels !

I’ve had bialy’s and bagel’s all my life… but I have to say, they are the best
Only in NY could two Muslim’s take over a kosher establishment and
keep the quality as wonderful as it was before. It’s one of the reasons I
could never leave New York (Brooklyn)!!!

The bialys here are excellent and fresh. The bagels are good too. The bialys hot on the oven. You should try the pletzl style bialy. The prices are cheap and the service is fast.

There are two great bialys in NYC and this is one of them. The other is Kossar’s of course. My ex-​ex-​boyfriend lived above Sahara’s many moons ago and we used to breakfast here all the time. We rarely ate the bagels as they were a runner up to the bialy. The bialys I, but they have that flavor of authenticity, that is unmistakable. A little onion in the middle and with a flour that is a little yellowish.
Bialy store is now owned by Arabs– he still uses same recipe to create the bialy.
Some of the rolls particularly the one with salt and caraway is a knockout. Salty with a mix of caraway also a great fresh bread– period, baked with love and Brooklyn water!

This is the one of the last places in Brooklyn to get a quality, hot, fresh kosher bialy. I am a bialy maven, and love the variety of bialy offered, including their pletzel-​style bialy. Under the supervision of Rabbi Israel Mayer Steinberg, they offer great kosher bialys far tastier than those from Kossar’s, which has slipped in recent months. This is the original bialy maker in America, and they certainly do it well. I wholeheartedly recommend them, and look forward to getting the Sunday papers, some OJ, a dozen bialys, and a tub of Temp Tee.

I’m not sure what all the hoopla is about. Maybe ’cause these folks either made the trek out to CI Ave and don’t want to admit it wasn’t worth t OR they live out there and have forgotten what a good bialy is like. Well, I was out there and having heard so much about it (on Unilocal) we stopped in. Mediocre bialy at best. Bagels looked doughy.

When I moved to Brooklyn in 1981 my neighbors all told me about this place. I have been going there ever since. I heard them discussed years ago on NPR, as their bialys were being enshrined in the Smithsonian, no kidding, they are the first place to sell these things on our shores, run by a family from Bialystok, Poland. I have always loved their bialys, especially the specialty item «Jacks» aprox. 6″ bialy covered in poppy seeds and onions and «Bialy Boards, a Frisbee sized version» Their bagels, which for decades, were not Brooklyn’s best, are now MUCH better. I no longer make two stops, when I am entertaining.
The ownership changed, maybe two years age…& for the better. The bialys are identical, unchanged, while the place is brighter, cleaner and better stocked. Their half priced day old bagels, are NOW, actually just one day old.
Bring the out of towners who visit you to this place, it’s a page out of NY history.
Parking is excellent here, bring a quarter.

This place was mentioned in Hidden New York… I’ve been coming by every once in a while for both bagels and bialys. Lately it’s been for the day old bags. Honestly would not have noticed the change in ownership if it wasn’t all over the news.

After my former favorite place in Whitestone started making their bagels with carmel coloring instead of real whole wheat I found myself up a creek without a bagel! ;-)
After lots of looking I found Coney Island Bialy Bakeries. Their whole wheat bagels are great, dense chewy and real ww. Their bialys are also authentic! Something that Kossar’s sadly can no longer say. They had a sign saying that they have ww bialys also, but were out of them. Can’t wait to try them!
All and all this is a place worth making the trip to.

This was the first bagel/​bialy place in America, very famous. It was profiled on CBS Sunday Morning on 11/​20/​2011. The owner/​descendants-​of-​original owners closed the shop. A former employee (a taxi driver) teamed up with someone to form a partnership to keep it going.

A few days ago, I gave the place a 100 thumbs down. Then a friend showed me an article that appeared in Fridays NY Post, August 12^th which is all about the place closing due the changing neighborhood, loss of jews in the area — Understandable… I’ve been chatting about the change in bklyn eateries over the past 15 years due to the ethnic make up of brooklyn.
Sorry to see you guys go. Good luck.

EDIT:
New ownership! Bagels have improved and are now glorious. Store is way cleaner, and the bialys are just fantastic. The new flooring and fixtures have definitely improved the atmosphere of the store. I’m really excited to see this restaurant improve and thrive!
OLD REVIEW: (Previous management)
Coney Island Bialy (which I refer to as «Hot Bialys» because of their sign) is decent. I’ve gotten bagels from here at least 10 different times. Their cream cheese is pretty good, but sometimes their bagels are a little bit old and stale. The consistency can be pretty hard all around, so I’m not sure where Andy H. got «soft, chewy, and delicious» from. It’s been 3 years since his review, so maybe there’s new management? I’m also not sure how bagels that are toasted can be cold by the time I get home, considering I practically live upstairs.
Do not order any of the side baked goods, like the croissants or chocolate cake. A slice of chocolate cake I bought from them once had a taste that could only be described as «moldy raspberries». It was nasty, and I spit it out — and I am the opposite of picky. How do you screw up a cake that badly?
Lastly, the store is dirty. Just plain gross looking. Sometimes there are flies buzzing around by the bagels. Some of the other items they have for sale, like Kraft Mac and Cheese and Rice Krispies treats are dusty. There’s also this one guy who works there who doesn’t wear gloves while handling the bagels, which is a bit questionable.
This is the longest Unilocal review I’ve ever written, but it was crucial. I still go here, and I wouldn’t say they’re so bad that you should go to Dunkin Donuts instead — though I have done that a couple of times when the store has looked particularly gross. I’m embarrassed to choose a chain over an independent Brooklyn establishment, but it’s been that bad.
Long story short: I still eat here, and I still give the bagels themselves 3.5÷5 stars. Take my review as you will.

Don’t rate them on the décor and there’s no where to sit and eat — but that’s not why your here. You are here for the BIALIES. Best the NYC and I daresay the world. (Yes, they mail order them — but it’s just not the same.) A mini bialy with cream cheese or a full sized bialy or pletzel; (not pretzel — pletzel…) Loaded with onions and poopy seeds — or even plain.
Gotta love ‘em.
Carb-​a-​licious bliss. With a schmear.

My favorite location for a bagel in Brooklyn. So soft, chewy and delicious. The right amount of cream cheese and a great variety of toppings like sesame, poppy, cheese and of course the «everything».
Check them out if you want some old school Brooklyn style bagels. Love it.
…and for you out of towners… THEY DO ONLINE ORDERS!!! So get a piece of Brooklyn delivered to you!