Sun Flour Bagel

Love the specialty bread and buns. But why, oh, why, they only made a few loaves every time? I feel like I am always giving the customers in front of me dirty eyes because I know they will buy all the bread and leave nothing for the people behind them! One time, I almost have to race this woman who pulled into the parking lot the same time as me so I can get some of the yummy buns! Good thing she had a baby with her and that slowed her down, and I managed to get all the sweet buns! yay!

I have been a patron of Sun Flour Bagel for years now and am a huge fan of their Japanese breads. I’m specifically a big fan of their curry bread – a delicious, deep-​fried bread stuffed with meaty, flavorful, Japanese curry – their melon bread – a sugar-​crusted soft bread that is sweet, but not overpoweringly so – and their matcha and red bean bread – a soft bread stuffed with matcha cream and red bean paste. The prices seem a tad bit high for their breads, but I believe that they’re truly worth it; you’ll be hard-​pressed to find another place in San Diego that makes authentic, quality Japanese bread pastries like these.

I have been here a number of times. Bagels are pretty standard. The owner did not seem friendly. Almost angry. I’ve been there and they ran out of bagels I wanted. They need to spend more time cleaning behind the counter as it’s pretty dirty. That said, the bagel sandwiches are pretty good if you can look past everything else.

Came in at noon to get a sandwich and were all out of bagels. Place smells awful too. Maybe I should be glad they were out of bagels.

I stopped here somewhat randomly in search of a breakfast sandwich and was really happy with the result. The bagels are outstanding! Soft, with the right amount of chewiness, and covered in a ton of whatever the topping for that bagel was. The everything bagel I had was packed with toppings. I ordered a breakfast sandwich with egg, cheese, and bacon and was surprised at the amount of filling. It was a pretty filling meal. They also do specialty Japanese pastries three days a week, but I wasn’t here in the right day. Well worth the trip.

Could not get to the best (Garden State), so tried this place. Now also a Best. Arrived really late and bought what was left (at 2:30 pm), plain, egg, cranberry, spinach. OMG, ate one cranberry tonight and was in heaven (had it with Kerrygold softspread butter).
Perfect shine and crunch on the outside; nice shape and size. Decent cranberry amount inside and possibly some orange flavoring. Soft inside; no gaps or holes. Chew factor is what makes a bagel stand apart from a hamburger bun. This had that factor.
Under $ 10 for a dozen and then they throw in one extra. Only drawback; no freezer bags for free. But, at home zipped some into ziplock bags because one can only bagel oneself about once every few weeks.
They offer sandwiches, coffee, drinks, etc. Yet to be discovered. Very nice, hard-​working people. No air conditioning in the shop today, but probably on a stupid Flex alert. Hottest day in 2015 for San Diego County.

Excellent breakfast sandwich with Seattle’s best coffee. Can’t wait to come back for the preservative free Japanese bread!

Well we found our breakfast place. Seattle’s best coffee, bagels made on site that are extremely good, friendly staff, and a convenient location. Love it! We will be back to pick up some Japanese bread.

Heard about Japanese bread and pastries on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Cream pan may be the best I’ve ever had. Custard is yummy. Curry pan was delicious, crunchy on the outside, tasty on the inside. Survived heating in the microwave. Best heated in oven. Japanese bread and rolls are great.

This is a pretty good bagel shop.
It’s not too popular so it is never too crowded, and the family that runs it is pretty helpful. There are a lot of different bagel flavors and bagel sandwich options. They offer coffee and smoothies and other Asian foods as well. The prices are pretty cheap too. The bagels themselves are very fresh, and tasty. It’s a convenient location in the Vons shopping center near Notorious burgers.

Beagles were good, cream cheese seemed a little thin which made them messy for a beagles. Our total was 8.11 $ we had 8.10 (not wanting to break an other bill for .10) he wouldn’t cash us out till he had his penny. The penny = one star

Ok, I’m not sure if this was lost in translation, but I went to get one bagel, the menu said one dollar for one bagel, so I asked if I could get the spread because I didn’t want a dry bagel, I ended up paying $ 3.50. I asked the menu says $ 1 for a bagel? Does the spread cost 2.50? I’m not ordering the tub! They said yes! The bagel was nothing exciting! Not coming back, EVER!!!

This has become an almost weekly stop for me. The bagels are great, especially their everything bagel. They overload them with toppings and all always consistently well made.
1 star for the coffee
3 stars– Bagel sandwiches usually have a microwave component to them. They microwave the eggs which takes on a fluffy consistency (not that bad). The proteins are also microwaved which is never the best.
5 stars– for the actual bagel.
Owners can be hit or miss with service. I have had both great and mediocre service.
Overall, this is a place that I go pick up a couple bagels and take them home. I am still giving it 4 starts because it really is the best bagel I have had in North County. It is also a place I take friends from outside the area, who have all enjoyed it.
If they would improve their coffee and change the way they make sandwiches — I would increasing my rating.

Located in a section of the Vons shopping center at the corner of Aviara Parkway and El Camino Real in Carlsbad, this little shop is a hidden treasure. Okay, the bagels here are pretty good, but the exceptional part is the Japanese bread and pastries they sell here on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays after 11:00am. I almost hate to say anything because they run out frequently in a short amount of time. The owners are Japanese and their daughter learned how to make these authentic and delicious pastries in Japan. Be sure to try the red bean filled buns, soft, sweet and oh so good! The curry donuts are delicious, too. For the more «exotic», try the yakisoba rolls. Yakisoba is the Japanese version of chow mein and they stuff a soft roll with it. It’s found in many authentic Japanese pastry shops. If you like Japanese sweets, you won’t be disappointed!

Love this place. The bagels here are awesome and the family that runs it is very friendly. Most importantly, I frequent Japan quite often and I must say that the Japanese bread they serve on weekends here is phenomenal! I mean, it is extremely delicious and well prepared, I prefer either the taro or the custard bread, it will knock your socks off. I must say that this bread is in very limited supply and served only on weekends, after 11 if I recall correctly. Regardless, this is a great spot for a bagel, cup of coffee or juice and Japanese bread on weekends.
Pros–
Taste
Service
Bagels
Japanese breads
Selection
Cons–
Limited selection after AM rush

Very sweet owners work here daily.
Have been here aboit 8 times now.
The bagles are always fresh from the morning of & yummy!
My favorite is the everything bagel– it comes with salt. For some reason that is what makes it great!
They also offer bagels that weren’t sold the day before to take home for I think $ 2.
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It seems like I seek out anything and everything Asian. There isn’t a big selection of Asian food place to go to in North County! So if a review references anything Asian about a place, I am going to research it till I figure out if it’s authentic or not lol. I’ve been working in Carlsbad for over a year now and can’t believe I just came across this bagel shop! Reading the reviews, you learn that the owners are Japanese and put out an assortment of Japanese pastries on certain days, ding! It’s authentic!
Details:
When– I just went today which is a Wednesday, at exactly 11 am, the man behind the counter brings out the sweet, savory Japanese pastries. Reading other reviews it looks like they dish them out only on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday @ 11:00 am
Where– near the shopping center where the Dove Library is, shop is closer to the post office
What I ordered– curry pan, tako pan (I think it said teriyaki), cream custard, fruit custard tart, and a bagel with cream cheese and lox
My least favorite thing was the bagel… the tako pan is my favorite so far! The curry pan is big and tasty! Definitely coming here again!

I had to cheat on my regular bagel place in Encintas and come here one day since it’s closer to home. I sure hope they don’t get mad at me.
Sun Flour has a fabulous bagel though, wow! It was huge, fluffy and crispy on the outside and just delicious. The everything bagel had so much crunchy goodies on it too. This was just an all around great bagel. Got a dozen (bakers dozen 13) and think I paid only $ 9.95 for them. Fabulous deal. Much better bagel than the ‘chain’ bagel in town.
Also had a few tubs of cream cheese which were just as tasty. Think I paid $ 2.75 a container for those, well worth it, fresh too.
Going to have to stop back in here (you know, when I have to cheat again).

SFB makes excellent bagels. I usually get the lox and cream cheese. The bagel comes open faced, w/​cream cheese, capers, slices of tomato, sliced red onion & topped by thick slices of lox.
On Wednesdays, Saturday & Sundays SFB throws down pan (Japanese style breads/​pastries). SFB carries all the heavy hitters: an, cream, yakisoba, curry, melon, & shokupan in limited quantities. The pan tends to sell out in a few hours upon the doors opening.

I’m not a fan of this hole-​in-​the-​wall bagel joint. We ate here just this morning.
I noticed a sign on their door offering a breakfast special. The guy at their counter seemed annoyed at me… telling me, «No! It’s after the special time.» It certainly was… by a whole five minutes. Now… no biggie… I bought the breakfast sandwich anyway. It was his attitude that was unnecessary.
The guy manning their front counter is just too brusque to make the store seem inviting. He also has a nickel and dime attitude. We bought two breakfasts. he doled out our paper napkins as though they were sheets of platinum. I accidentally dropped our meager portion of napkins while setting up our food on the table. He seemed annoyed that I dared ask him for replacements.
They have signs posted on their tea and coffee areas… informing you in no uncertain terms… you had better not try for a refill. Cheap. Coffee is inexpensive to begin with. Whatever they don’t use will go bad anyway. It also demonstrates more of the cheapskate attitude toward customers that connot help but also be reflected in the quality if ingredients.
I glanced to the end of the counter… toward their quite unclean floor. Couldn’t help but notice the fly swatter tucked in to the side of their very smeared trash can. I kid you not, it had body parts stuck to it.
Their bagels were nothing special. I’d give them two stars but am impressed to learn they sell Japanese pastries here on other days of the week.
From the lack of cleanliness to the front and counter areas though, I would be surprised to find their kitchen any cleaner.