The Bagel Bakery

Carmel By The Sea — The Barnyard, Highway 1, PCH
* The Belly Buster — double pastrami yet I can devour the whole bagel sandwich in 6 bites.
* Eventhough the bagel is nothing special. Overall a good sandwich.
* The problem — small sandwich big price.
* If you’re starving and not interested in any of the other eateries close by then give this spot a go.

I am a longtime resident of Monterey Peninsula. I have been a customer at all of the Bagel Bakeries in the Monterey area. I have steadily watched the prices go up as the quality went down. You used to be able to rely on always getting a yummy sandwich on a bagel here, but no more.
Yesterday, I had a bagel sandwich at the Carmel store, near the Barnyard and the bagel was stale. Definitely NOT baked that morning. It was the worst sandwich ever! I hope everyone votes with their feet and stop patronizing this place, if they think they can pass off day-​old bagels to their customers at full price… the nerve!
I looked to see if they were selling bags of day-​old bagels, like these store do at a discounted price. I did not see any… probably because they sold them the next day. SMH…

This is a pretty basic bagel bakery, and the Sunday after church crowd seemed to keep the place busy though not overwhelmed. I had my usual «everything» bagel and opted for the date enhanced cream cheese. Wow! What a taste treat! I’m now wishing I had thought to buy a container «to go». I noted several coffee choices on order as well as capuccino, latte, etc.

i was helped Ashely M last week I went to order California dream and I was ready to pay when she put the bagel inside the bag but I told her is for here and she give me a bad look when she rang up my order she was so rude and disrespectful. — bad consumes service.-I still don’t get why they don’t fired her.

Pretty yummy bagel sandwiches. Good selection of sandwiches. When in the area will come back!

Always nice to come here early in the morning and get a toasted began. Always served quickly and promptly!
I normally get the cinnamon raisin bagel toasted with cream cheese. Always very good and never disappoints.

Bagel Bakery has never failed me. I almost always get a vegetarian on a toasted superseed with cheddar cheese, light on the mayo and mustard. SO PERFCT.
I also like the new yorker, the california nosh, the super turkey, the kupermans delight with cream cheese instead of jack, and the sunrise breakfast bagel.
The workers always remember me, even if its been a year or two since I was in Carmel. They are also very generous and once they know you will let you have a small tab if your short. Great place, great service, awesome bagels.

Nice variety.

Great bagel sandwiches, friendly staff, clean tables. Love the Mexican Fiesta breakfast sandwich! The one place I can always get my 3 year old to eat.

This is my favorite bagel place! I work at the barnyard and the bagels are always fresh. The staff always makes an effort to remember locals too!

The people that work here are a bit odd — like haven’t you seen a non white person before?! I always feel so out of place when coming home but I wish people would be less obvious about it.
I found this place on Unilocal & there’s another one close by with better reviews. I decided to go to this one since it was closer. ATM machine was broken, luckily I had cash. They do not have sourdough bagels so I chose the salted bagel instead. It was pretty good with lox salmon, onion, cream cheese, & capers.
For $ 5.90 I thought was cheap but after looking at how small the initial bagel was it would be expensive. Ate my whole bagel & am still hungry! :(Maybe why all the poor reviews? Next time I’ll go to a nicer place, pay more, & have better quality.
I put 2 stars instead of 1 because the bagel itself (salted bagel) was pretty tasty.

The line at Subway was out the door so we decided to give The Bagel Bakery a try. I am sorry to say the bagels were stale.
In addition to being old and dry they were also miniature in size. I don’t get it, it’s called the Bagel Bakery but they serve up bad bagels.
I had a tomato and onion sandwich on a toasted sesame seed bagel. It was actually difficult to bite through.
My wife had the ‘Andreas Fault’ sandwich that featured egg, feta, sun dried tomato and avocado on a toasted onion bagel.
She ate half and tossed the remainder. It was inedible due to being dry and hard.
I would like to say something nice about this family run business. The place looked really clean.

I would never return to this place. There was a long line at lunch time on a Sunday with one employee (I’m assuming the owner) working the counter. The bagels looked very old, tiny and were not even placed in the correct bins. My daughters ordered the sun rise and the bacon was so tough they couldn’t even bite a piece off. My super turkey on a jalapeño cheddar bagel was flavorless. The place was dirty and I was not even offered a receipt for my purchase.

Hours say open at 6am but igot there at 6:30am and they were closed. I had to settle for a day old doughnut at Save Mart.

I wouldn’t say we would never come here again, I’m sure other things would be better, but the sandwiches we ordered were not great. My husband ordered the Sunrise (egg/​bacon/​cheese) without cheese, on a poppyseed bagel. I ordered the egg salad, and added avocado, to the everything bagel. I would not suggest the egg salad to anyone that typically likes egg salad at bagel shops. Usually it is just egg, maybe a little celery or tad onion. This was the chunkiest egg salad filled with onions. It was way too much for my taste. My husbands sandwich was bland and he didn’t even finish half.

Vegetarian on Jalapeño Cheese. It’s a bagel sandwich… no bells and whistles. Quick service and affordable lunch in Carmel.

Good choice, very pleasant staff, tasty fayre

I too had many fond memories of The Bagel Bakery in Carmel from my childhood. The Bagels used to be SO good that I had my parents bring them to me while I was away at college. Sasha K. pretty much described my recent disappointing experience. The bagels are OK but the spreads are nothing like they used to be. There is less variety and lower quality overall.
The service is faster but mostly because no one stands in line here anymore. I remember when the line was out the door on any given day. Now the restaurant is almost completely empty. It is starting to look run-​down and it is not as clean as it should be. I walked away sad that The Bagel Bakery as I remember it is no more.
I went to the location in PG and it was better. If you are looking for a trip down Bagel Bakery memory lane I would go there instead.

This was my favorite Bagel Bakery in the 831 (there’s one in Sand City, Monterey and Salinas too) but the other day my Mom picked up a bag of bagels and some spread. She was handed a 4oz container of what looked like the Walnut Cream Cheese (Date & Walnut I think it is, semi sweet kind of odd but good on a plain or savory bagel… I think). I love cream cheese and I was too impatient to cut it properly and spread the creamy love so instead I ripped a nice small chunk out of my plain bagel and I topped it like it was whipped cream on a sundae… I went ape shit and took a nice bite.
NOT LOVELY. The cream cheese must have been left out for a while and placed back where customers could purchase it, it was borderline rancid and it tasted like yeasty Camembert (which is a cross between blue cheese and brie). I dropped it and thought I had lost my senses. I took a whiff of the container (as did my Mom and sisters) and sure enough it didn’t smell like cream cheese or have the nice nose of honey or anything slightly sweet or cream cheese-​like. I was shocked that they would have sold this to my Mom.
Super bummed, all these bagels and no cream cheese. I really hope this was a one time bad experience.

I agree with Shiho. This is the best bagel bakery. I got a vegetarian on superseed. That’s what I always get. I ask them to take the bready part out, toast it and slap some extra spouts on the side. It’s yummy. Basic, quick, fresh.
Bagel Bakery nowadays is nothing like it was 20 years ago. The bagels are about the same (REAL boiled bagels) but they use to put so much filling inside you could barely fit in in your grill. The ratio of bagel to cream cheese was like 1:1 now it’s about 1:20. No lie. This is no longer cheap hippie food. I’ve gotta stay home if I want that.