New York Bagel & Bialy Corp

What a disappointment. I was starving and went for a corned beef sandwich, expecting the usual sized deli sandwich, what I got was a sandwich that looked like one my mom packed for my lunch when I was in 4^th grade. Actually, my mom did a better job because she didn’t douse it with mayo (yes, I know mustard should be on a CB sandwich, I get it). I paid just under $ 10 for this «sandwich» and a Nantucket Nectars, which was actually more filling than my sandwich.

There’s nothing about a New York deli that uses processed egg patties on its burnt garlic bagel breakfast sandwich. Otherwise bagels and cream cheese selections are fresh and worth a stop in to try!
516 all day everyday

They got the dough! A perfect mix of outstanding service and bageltastic schmear, as well as fabulously crispy bagels with a quick moving line makes this a must stop in Lincolnwood!

My favorite go to place for anything carbs. Not only are they open 24/​7, but they also offer a great selection of bagels, bialys, desserts and meats by the slice. I think their best deal is their $ 3.79 breakfast sandwich on a bagel with coffee. I’ve also tried their lox sandwich which is about $ 8, but super fresh and delicious. Service is relatively fast and everyone there is friendly. Definitely recommend this hidden gem!
Also note, there is no place to actually sit down and eat, and the parking lot is a bit on the smaller side.

Best bagels in town! Open ²⁴⁄₇ when you have a late night craving for bagels lol! Seriously though, they have the softest bagels and the best homemade cream cheese! Some of my favorites include blueberry bagel, sesame seed bagel and the whole wheat bagel! Give them a try, they’re great! The bialy’s are great as well

Deliciousness open 24 hours!
The bagels and sandwiches are fantastic. They have a great selection of cream cheeses and spreads. I love the egg salad and chicken salad spreads. It’s also open 24 hours.

So it’s been over 10 years since I last visited NY bagel and I forgot just how awesomely delicious their bagels are here!!! I’ve been to several bagel shops and none of them compare to the freshness and taste of their bagels. Since then, I’ve come here 3 times in the past two weeks and the bagels are always consistent. In fact I bought extras to see how long they would hold up after a day or two and let me tell you, they held their own rather well and most of all, the bagels did not go dry or stale after 24 – 48 hours. Of course you would have to keep them in an air tight container but overall they still tasted very much fresh.
I would recommend the following:
Mish mosh bagel — it’s like an everything bagel.
Egg bagel
Pizza bagel
Their whitefish that’s sold by the pound
And the lox spread
The staff are helpful and friendly and they do their best to get you in and out of there fast. There is no seating at this place so food will have to be ordered to go. They also provide catering. I’ve never tried stuff from their catering menu but will definitely keep them in mind if I need to use their services in the future. Updated review on that to follow…
Due to their notorious popularity with folks this place can get busy. I went middle of the week at 2 pm and there was a line!!! Knowing this, it’s kinda hard to gauge when it’s best to come in and avoid the crowds. I guess if the lines are consistently this long, then they’re obviously doing something good.

I find bagels delicious but I tend to stay away since I have no self control over them. Which would explain why I have had this place bookmarked forever and never went in even though its practically walking distance from my house.
We got the lox bagel and the turkey pastrami one with all the works. Everything was really good. The bagels were fantastic and the lox was fresh. My husband’s pastrami sandwich was phenomenal too. One thing that did kind of annoy me was the size of the bagels. They were pretty tiny in comparison to what a normal bagel is supposed to be.
I suspect there will be some rough Sunday mornings where I am beyond hangover and I dont want to cook and I will venture here. So until then my friends

I already know this place is popular, and that was confirmed with a late lunchtime line when we were nearby and entered for a sampling. We picked up a bagel but didn’t eat it until several hours later for a snack. All I can say is that it was more yeasty, dense, and chewy than the average bagel I have had. We need to come back again sometime and try them right off the rack for a better and more accurate appraisal. This is a small takeout place but you can stand at a short and small counter to eat in if you want. If they had bar stools at one point, they are gone now.

I come here for their lox & cream cheese bagel sandwiches. They always put a good amount of lox and cream cheese unlike other places. Always delicious.
Bagels are decently made, but if bagels aren’t your thing, they have other things to munch on for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Everyone I have encountered there are always nice and friendly.
They are also opened for 24 hours which is great for late night snacks.

Came back when a bagel & cream cheese craving struck at nearly midnight because I only had clear bone broth for dinner, and I suddenly remembered that NYB&B is open ²⁴⁄₇ for absolute weirdos like me who have such cravings! The shop was quiet, but the employees were working away as if it was normal working hours. These bagels really hit the spot this time — they were the right consistency and texture as the ones in NYC. Prices are slightly cheaper than NYC too for the bagel sandwiches. I also got a loaf of egg bread to satisfy my omniscient toast craving for the next morning. FYI — the smallest cream cheese container is enough for 4 – 6 bagels.

Been here twice. It’s your typical bagel place. I really enjoy their egg salad bagel while my bf raves about the lox. It is a little pricey if you want to buy a bunch since there are no deals for buying in bulk.

If there’s one place that I’d go to load up on carbs it would definitely be New York Bagel and Bialy Corp. They’ve got their Ph. D in carbohydrate deliciousness, that’s for sure. I’ve never seen so many variations of bagels in one place before! They had egg bagels, mish-​mosh bagels (a super cute name for the everything bagel), garlic bagels, onions bagels, cinnamon raisin bagels and much, much more. You can order any bagel plain or with cream cheese, meat or cream cheese and meat… for an additional cost of course. Besides the bagels, they also have other hand-​made goodies like macaroons and the like.
I got the garlic bagel, toasted, with veggie cream cheese (my absolute favorite combination ever) and a chocolate — drizzled macaroon while my fiancé got a mish-​mosh bagel, also toasted, with lox, lox cream cheese, tomatoes and capers. Since there was no place to sit inside we had to enjoy our deliciously messy bagels in the car. As soon as we bit into our appetizing bagels we wee moaning and groaning with pure enjoyment. The bagels were so fresh and fluffy, even when toasted. And the cream cheese — oh my gosh, just stop. It was so creamy and tastey. Also, the lox and my fiancé’s bagel was fresh as fresh could be and it smelled amazing. As for my macaroon… it was like eating an almond joy only it was 100x better. The macaroons there are extremely dense and moist.
Although it was sort of a messy thing to eat in the car we didn’t particularly mind, especially because they had the air on Antarctica temperature inside though I suppose they do this to keep everything fresh… and boy, is it fresh. All of their ingredients are fresh! With that being said, I’d have thought that because all of the bagels and such were fresh and authentic that it’d be more costly, but I was wrong. For my bagel, my fiancé’s bagel and the macaroon it was only $ 12!!! One bagel with cream cheese is about $ 3.25 so that’s a similar price to other bagel places who don’t have nearly as good bagels as they do here. Something else you don’t get at every other bagel shop is the availability — they’re open 24 hours to cater to your every craving so lucky, lucky you.

Rumor has it they import their water direct from NYC for making their bagels and bialys. That’s their secret for the special authentic NYC taste and why bagels from elsewhere just don’t cut the mustard (er cream cheese?)
The prices are affordable, tastes chewy and fresh, and they’re open 24 hours. Even for a non bagel or non carb lover or gluten free person they make cheap & easy answers for what to serve houseguests or meeting attendees. A couple sacks of assorted and 2 tubs of flavored cream cheese and the crowd goes wild. I like that they package the sweet ones separate from the savory; because cinnamon doesn’t go great with onion & garlic is ickky poo poo on chocolate.
Enjoy!

Love when the bagels come out warm.
First time I tried the salmon cream cheese. Omg. Excellent. I’m sold for life.

Believe the hyperbole.
Truly great bagels. Hurrah! I mean, real, actual bagels. Finally! Why didn’t I come here sooner? Damn foolishness and lack of opportunity. But now I have a new temporary commute, and NYB&B is a pretty convenient stop. (Note: it is highly INconvenient for anyone going east.)
The selection of bagels and spreads is smaller than other places, but who cares. You have your choice of all the hits: sesame, onion, garlic, poppyseed, mish-​mosh (aka everything), egg, whole wheat, cinnamon raisin. This last is the only variety anywhere near the «sweet» category. There is no chocolate chip, maple french toast crunch, sylvan twinkleberries, or any of that sugary shite. That stuff is for dessert, not breakfast!
Can you believe that a glorious bagel deli is open 24 hours? Tremendous! The only knock on this joint is that their bagel and cream cheese is too messy to eat in the car. A little bit of side-​leakage is pretty common, but for some reason, NYB&B makes ‘em super-​sloppy. So either be prepared to get chive spread all over your steering wheel, or wait until you get to where you’re going.
They also have some pretty awesome-​sounding sandwich specials, but as delicious as I’m sure they are, I can’t see myself passing through here ever at lunchtime. But for work-​week breakfasts… oh yeah. I need to get my shiksa wife away from those hapless, half-​defunct chains and up here to try the genuine artifact from New York Bagel & Bialy.

Great little bagel shop/​deli just off of 94 in Lincolnwood.
The Lox is really good.
The Reuben sandwich is really good.
Tried their Jalapeño Cream Cheese and was surprised with how tasty that was as well.
They’re open ²⁴⁄₇.

How did I forget to Unilocal about this gem?!? I grew up in Lincolnwood and since I can remember this place has served the best bagel, cream cheese and lox!
I picked up a bialy and chive cream cheese yesterday for lunch and OMG it’s all I want today! How do you create cream cheese magic NY bagel?! All of their cream cheese are amazing!
So affordable, got six bagels a half tub of chive, a toasted bialy and cream cheese and a soda and a dessert for $ 15. Love love love this place!!!

Excellent bagels! And bialys! Also cream cheese, mini bagels, muffins, scones, and other pastries, drinks and snacks.
My husband tried their corned beef from the deli side and likened it to Kauffman’s, at a slightly lower price. That was impressive to me since Kauffman’s is undoubtedly the best deli on the North Shore, so I stopped in to pick up a jumbo sandwich for him tonight. Unfortunately, this one was much a fattier cut of meat… which surprised and disappointed my husband. He picked the meat apart, ate little bits, but ended up throwing most of it away. Otherwise, I would have taken a picture. Good corned beef is hard to find, and so we really appreciate quality meat that is lean.
They also have many other deli favorites like tuna, egg salad, chicken salad, smoked salmon, lox to go with their great bagels, etc! Yet I think we will stick to Kauffman’s for our corned beef and other deli sandwiches, and come here just for the bagels. (If I were rating bagels alone, they would have received five stars for sure!)
There’s really no place to sit if you want to eat in; their niche is carry out and it’s wonderful for convenience. They get an extra star for being 24 hours, and for now taking credit/​debit cards!

Hubby and I came here due to the failure of the plan A. We intended to head to the Edgebrook Coffee Shop near the Edgebrook Metra, but there was no street parking available. All parking in the neighborhood was permit-​only. Hence, I went back to my Unilocal bookmarks and used the New York Bagel & Bialy as our plan B.
To be honest, after tasting the bagels, I still don’t understand the hype about this place. We ordered the pumpernickel, onion, poppyseed, and poppyseed with garlic. In addition, we added one (1) tub of lox spread. The only ones that I would recommend with reservation would be the pumpernickel and onion.
Don’t get me wrong. I personally think those bagels were good, but they weren’t worth five (5) stars in my opinion. Did I order the wrong items? Or was I just too critical? Someone tells me if there’s indeed a lost in translation between myself and this place.
Hubby didn’t understand many Unilocalers’ rave, either. He was disappointed that there wasn’t a place to sit down. Well, he was partially incorrect because there were about five (5) high chairs available. However, most people were getting their orders to-​go.
The staff was nice, and they do accept visa and master cards. I thought they were cash-​only, so I went straight to the ATM onsite with a surcharge of $ 2.50.
Sorry, Unilocalers who are in love with this place. Yet it just didn’t stand out in the crowd in my book.