BreadHive

Go for the bread, stay for the bagels. My favoritest is the bagel with the poppy and sesame seeds! They don’t even need to be toasted, just a little schmear and you’re good to go! Recommend going early as they do sell out often, especially of the more popular flavors.

Do you love sourdough? I love sourdough. That is the base for a lot of their bread, if not all. I’ve had a little bit of everything and there is nothing that disappoints. The pretzels are amazing. The bagels are great although I would not compare them to a true New York style bagel, just accept the fact that they’re yummy.
There are a lot of great seasonings/​toppings for their items too. Garlic, everything, rosemary.
Plus if you’re looking for a good office snack, they have cream cheese available and utensils to take with you.
The wonderful crew that runs this poured their heart and soul into this. They spent countless hours learning and slave away every day. It shows in a great product and unique business. Can’t wait for the new location to open and see what else they come up with!

No one makes bagels like BreadHive. The everything or the sesame are my favorites. Awesome! The pretzels are really delicious too.
You can get BreadHive bagel egg and cheese breakfast sandwich at Daily Planet Coffee Co. and they are delicious.

Purple Carrot Bread
I reviewed Breadhive sometime last year when we had picked up a number of breads & bagels over a few weeks. Now we have had a breadshare for around 8 months or so. Its earned them the 5^th star.
Each week on Tue we get an email telling us the bread choices of the week. For the first few months the choices were usually West Side Sourdough and another choice — some creative bread they were trying out. Now it’s a choice of three — WestSide Sourdough, Whole Wheat Cinnamon Fig, and a third creative choice (this past week was Toasted Sunflower and Purple Carrot Sourdough).
While we pick up the WS Sourdough occasionally, it’s a terrific toasting and sandwhich bread, we often go for the «special of the week» bread. We have had Pumpernickel, Southwestern (spicier bread), Fresh Herb Sourdough, just to name a few. Each is creative and well made. Id have to say the «Purple Carrot» is the fav so far.
Occasionally they make baguettes. Those are a great buy on occasion, who doesn’t love a fresh baguette?
As Buffalos renaissance continues it is places like this that will continue to push us all forward. Fresh bread at reasonable prices, happy employees, smart marketers, entrepreneurs interested in working with others and supporting other small businesses in the area.
We look forward to Tuesdays. Thanks Breadhive.

It is so nice to have a bakery in the neighborhood, especially one that serves up fresh, delicious bread. Bread Hive’s signature bread is the Westside Sourdough but they bake weekly special breads as well such as fennel rye, kalamata olive, multigrain, etc…
Bagels are delicious, not quite the usual bagel but dense and chewy on the outside. Good variety of bagels as well, rosemary salt, sugar & cinnamon, everything, multigrain topping, etc. .. you can get a fresh bagel with a smear of flavored or plain chevre or butter at the bagel window. My only complaint are the toppings not sticking well but that’s only because they compliment the bagel so well.
Try to go early because they do sell out so the selection isn’t as wide at the the end of the day. You can also buy day old bread — $ 2 a loaf and it makes perfect sandwich bread, toast and even better French toast.
There are a few tables & chairs to eat at as well as a bike rack if you need one.

Amazing. I wish there were a space to sit down and enjoy the fresh bagels, chèvre, coffee, bread, granola, etc… This is a great place to pick up a housewarming/​thank you gift as everything is unique and local to Buffalo.

I want to love it enough to give it 5 stars, I really do! But I can’t just yet. So I start with my love of the pretzels. They are nice and soft, salty, buttery. My only complaint is that they need more rock salt. Also you have to be careful, they will go rock solid the next day.
On to the bagels. Overall they are good and as time goes on they are getting better. From the first weeks they started making them to now they have come a long way, my only issue is consistency. This may have more to do with who’s forming the pretzels and bagels than anything else, but it’s something to look out for. We really enjoy them overall.
Lastly, the bread. It’s good, we have tried all different kinds from west side sourdough, various flavors, to rye, it has been consistently well made. This is by no means saying it isn’t wonderful if you like a more dense style of bread, it’s just not my cup of tea so I cannot comment further. Oh and the granola is quite nice.

I had no idea what to expect coming here today. I must have driven past here 6009 times. However after being pointed out to me that I can get my coffee and kick booty bagel here instead of say Timmy’s I will totally be back jack!
Coffee and a bagel with goat cheese a mere $ 4.25 cheaper than at the other big chain places.
Coffee is good and their bagels despite being able to be toasted are excellente! Glad I found this haven of bready goodness!

Wow, I stopped by the pick up window today. Having never been here before, I assumed it would be more like a food truck line so I wore very warm clothes prepared to wait. You know, order and then wait 10 minutes while they are getting your order ready. I was there for probably a minute total — this includes ordering, paying and getting my order handed to me
I had the most delicious everything bagel with cream cheese. There were all kinds of seeds and I think salt on top of it. I’m not sure how they did this but most of the «toppings» stayed connected to the bagel and didn’t fall all over my lap. The outside was firm and the inside was so soft. It tasted so much different than any other bagel I’ve had before — I almost couldn’t believe I was eating a bagel.

Upsides: Oh, gosh, this is a good bagel. I think it might even satisfy my NYCer mother. It’s chewy, tastes satisfying, like you can tell a good flour went into it. It’s the first everything bagel with a note of salt, which I like. The gal at the window was SUPER friendly too. Going to the pickup window was a fun experience. Coffee was good, interesting flavor to it.
Downside is that it’s just a window, no place to sit. When you get the bread, the loaves are a bit small for the price.
But man, this is a really good bagel, and the price is perfect.

We are regular customers of theirs at the Elmwood Farmers Market. I really like the bagels and appreciate the variety of flavors they offer. I love the seeds and the rosemary etc. We just don’t eat much bread in our house though so I haven’t explored the bread share (we never could quite make it through our breadshare from 5 points). I have tried their bread and it is a little doughier than I expected but quite yummy. My daughters love the raisin bread. Not sure what we will do for bagels at the end of the Farmer’s Market season. I wish the Co-​Op would sell individual (or at least ½ dozen batches — right now you have to buy a full dozen which would take me 3 weeks to get through).

Nice bakery that also offers a small lunch menu throughout the week.
All of the breads are freshly baked that day, and the smell of freshly baked bread spills out into the streets in such a way to pull you inside. We didn’t give it the full 5 stars because they were understaffed causing the service to be pretty slow.

I have always enjoyed there bread and bagels throughly when I could get my hands on them, but now that they have the to go window open it makes life even better (they also have Public Espresso available).
There everything bagel is has a bit of a sourdough taste to it which make it different and quite tasty, and the cinnamon bread is also fantastic. A must try for sure.

I was here on Labor Day for their grand opening of the Window and it was such a cute event! There were samples, music, and tents to sit and socialize under. I didn’t stick around long, but it was a well executed opening.
My husband and I each ordered The Combo which is a Bagel, First Light chèvre spread, and a Public Espresso coffee. We were given the choice of what bagel, so I went for the 3 seed bagel that had flax, sesame and pumpkin seeds baked into the top and my husband went for plain. The coffee could either be hot or iced, so we went for iced since it was a beautiful day and we were headed to the Eternal Flame at Chestnut Ridge. The special price for the day was $ 3 for the Combo, but normally the Combo is going to be $ 4.25. It should be mentioned, they don’t like to swipe credit cards for less than $ 10 (which I totally understand), so either bring cash or expect to purchase a few things that will ring up over Alexander Hamilton.
There was a bagel splitter available with plates and knives set out for customers to situate their bagels, so my husband and I got our bagels slathered up with chèvre cheese (which if you were like us and didn’t know what animal that’s from, it’s goat cheese. Straight up pungent goat cheese directly from First Light Farm and Creamery), stepped over to the Public Espresso coffee tent set up, and were poured cold brewed coffee. Half and half and simple syrup were laid out so we could make it the way we like it, which was fantastic because given the chance I don’t like to sweeten my coffee too much. On that note, Public has amazing coffee, which is fantastic because this means I can just go over to Breadhive’s window to pick up some food and coffee during their available hours!
The bagels were amazing. They weren’t too large, but dense and delicious. Their bagels tasted like I wished my homemade bagels would taste: real and fresh. I loved my bagel, but my husband who tends to gag at goat cheese couldn’t manage to eat his… so I ate his plain bagel too. By the way, it was anything but plain. It was delicious, fresh, and smothered in chèvre. #sorrynotsorry. It’s not a stereotypical white flour bagel, but made with well-​ground whole wheat to the texture is consistent like a plain bagel, but you can feel good about it.
Between those two bagels, the creaminess and wonderful flavor (to me) of the cheese, the great coffee, and the samples of the West Side Sourdough, I’ll be back. 100% I’ll be back. Breadhive knows how to bake an amazing loaf of anything!

Since its opening, BreadHive has made remarkable strides in addressing the availability issues I described at length in my previous review and now pops up not quite everywhere but certainly prolifically throughout the West Side especially. Bread and bagels are available at Guercio’s and the Co-​op daily, at the Elmwood Farmers Market weekly. They’ve partnered with Go Bike Buffalo, the Whole Hog food truck, with Artvoice, with etc., etc., etc. It’s gotten to the point that I can’t pick up anything Buffalo related without seeing their imprint. Kudos to them. But keep concentrating on the product.
BAGELS:
In my previous review, I discussed my issues with their bagels at length. These issues remain, and after a second batch purchased and the same issues experienced, I will not be purchasing another one ever. The bagels are too small for their price, too spongy on the inside, not crunchy on the outside, certainly not oily, and with holes far too large to accommodate white fish salad, chicken salad, egg salad, or most spreads.
BREADS:
On the bread side, BreadHive puts out a much better, much more consistent product. As I’ve already found five-​star favorites for rye and cinnamon raisin bread, I’ve now bought three loaves of their sourdough bread. The good news is that the sourdough bread is marvelously sour, perhaps too sour for some people’s taste. The bad news is that three issues reminiscent of their bagel issues afflict the bread, too.
1) While Five Points breads taste hearty (and a bit crumby), and Mazurek’s breads are copiously dense, the sourdough bread exhibits the same spongy character of the bagels. I suppose it must be due to their baking method. I find this texture less problematic with sourdough bread than I do with the bagels given the lovely sour taste, but I certainly wouldn’t qualify myself as a fan yet.
2) The crust/​inside issue is less of a problem here than with the bagels and indeed succeeds more than the crusts of any of the Five Points offerings do. There is a proper crust, but the crust is defined more by its density than it is by a proper crunch. This needs to improve.
3) The sourdough bread has an incredible shape issue. Namely, the bread’s nearly as wide as it is long. Slices of the bread are unwieldy and must be halved to use as material for sandwiches, for toast. It also means the bread dries much faster than any of the other artisanal breads I purchase. I can’t really for the life of me figure out what the rationale for the obscene width is. Like the bagels, I the shaping might demand more thought.
The combination of these issues means the bread falls far short of the perfection Elm Street has achieved out in East Aurora. Ultimately, however, the bread hits a satisfactory if not exemplary mark for its rather pricy range. Even Elm Street’s isn’t as sour as this sourdough. As I said in my now months-​old review of Five Points, it’s difficult to justify spending as much money per pound on bread as either of the places demand. Pricing in slightly less than Five Points, it veers ever slightly closer to pain quotidien than pain spécial. Fine.
EN FIN:
I wrote last time that I hoped BreadHive would continue to improve. It’s critically improved its visibility and community participation. Next step is the product.
1 star for bagels
3 stars for bread
4 stars for community outreach/​extra efforts
3 stars overall

Picked up three loaves this afternoon at the Co-​Op. LOVELY! Deli Rye, Sourdough and Cinnamon Raisin Swirl. Of course it was necessary that I try all three and all three were delightful! My fav — Deli Rye.
Wonderful texture and taste and great toastability. I am pushing for them to get their breads in a store in the South towns.
Another good thing about the trip to the Co-​Op is that my daughter rediscovered the cool foods available. This was her first trip inside the Elmwood location.

Love it. We signed on for the bread share, and have been getting different breads every week (first week bagels, 2^nd week loaf) and we were excited to see their bread already available at Guercios.

Artisan delicious, yummy locally made bread.
BreadHive is a baking co-​operating started by three women. They bake bread and sell wholesale to the Lexington Coop, Guercio’s, Farmers & Artisans (where you can pick it up) or you can subscribe to a CSA to pick up bread for them every week (and you’ll get a discount at that!).
Their bread is spectacular. The rye, cinnamon swirl and westside sourdough are just among some that I’ve tried. I purchased a loaf for my friend and she’s been raving about it since. It’s fluffy and decadent, baked in a multi-​stage process that minimizes the final gluten content in the bread.
The loaves will run you over $ 5 each, but if you’re looking for artisan bread; I’ve yet to find a better option.

Oh my goodness!!! The bread here is to-​die-​for!!!
I was fortunate enough to be there for the grand opening party and to sample five or six varieties of their bread and bagels. The texture and flavors of ALL of them were just perfection! Undefinable otherwise and different from any other I’ve ever had. I’m not sure whether their Rye, Sourdough, or Rotbrod were my favorite — maybe all three win together?!
I love that these chicks are a working cooperative and are paving the way for more of the same! Such awesome karma!
If I lived closer I would totally buy into their bread share. But for now, I will just have to swing by their window and get lucky or stop by one of the shops that sell their bread to get my fix.
HIGHLY HIGHLY recommended!!!