Bagel Express

The bagels are perfect here! Chewy on the inside and crisp on the outside. Always a good chance of getting them while they’re still hot. Reasonable prices and nice staff. Wish I had tried them years ago!

Fast, accurate and awesome every time. Everyone who works here is super nice too. Bagels are perfect ratio of crispy and chewy.

Have had many sandwiches and bagels and have never been displeased with the quality or quantity for the price. Quality little local place where the owner knows most of the clinetele by name and will bring out cookies and desserts to try.

Who doesn’t love bagels.
This shop was fantastic.

Came here today in between meetings for a quick breakfast. I asked if there was a sign for what cream cheeses they offered but the cashier said no and stumbled through a few options for me. I didn’t feel like I got the whole list but I wasn’t stressed about it.
I ordered a plain bagel with scallion cream cheese which came out to be $ 3.20. I thought that was kind of steep for just a bagel with cream cheese. Should really be $ 2 and change.
The bagels are big kind of fat and puffy. Somewhat of a crisp outside (I prefer mine a bit more crisp) and very fluffy very bready inside. If that’s how you prefer it I’m sure you would enjoy it. I worried a bit about my more than normal carb overload with this very fat bagel, haha.
Overall it was good and I’d come here again but it wasn’t necessarily my most favorite bagel place.

Great bagels. Very friendly service. Opens on time. Glad i found this shop. Kindly, Terri

I’ve always said when it comes to pizza, subs, and bagels, Jersey is King — at least in terms of volume. While the best of these three things can be found in Brooklyn across three specific locations (Di Fara, Lioni, and The Bagel Store), the other 95% of all places that sell these things across NYC sell a subpar a product. Yet in New Jersey, you can drive up to just about any local pizza joint, sub shop, or bagel store and have an experience far above the average. So it should come as no surprise that Bagel Express has now joined my growing list of 4-​star places to grab a quick breakfast in the morning.
Ironically, this review is not about the bagels. As much as I love a good bagel sandwich, it’s just too much food in the morning, especially if you’re trying to stay relatively healthy. Instead, I prefer a simple breakfast wrap — one egg, turkey bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper, hot sauce, in a whole wheat wrap. It’s more like a snack than a meal, and it’s perfect for those days when I need more than my daily kale/​spinach juice.
I’ve been working in Jersey City for almost six years now, and for three of those years I would order this breakfast wrap at the local deli. It may sound like a simple thing to create, but not all scrambled eggs are created equally, and getting turkey bacon cooked just right is an art form. The guy at my local deli had this down to perfection. But then Hurricane Sandy hit and wiped out the deli, which sadly never reopened. Since then, only Brunswick Bagels on the other side of East Brunswick has been able to recreate my wrap exactly the way I like it.
Unfortunately, Brunswick Bagels is not on my way to work in the morning. So now I occasionally pop in to Bagel Express. And I have to tell you, the girl on the grill here makes a mean breakfast wrap, everything apportioned perfectly, hot and delicious. To me, the simplest things in life are among the greatest things in life. And given how crappy my commute is in morning, it’s nice to sometimes start it off right with a proper breakfast.
Service is great here, too. Everyone is friendly and accommodating. Orders are always made correctly. And the prices are all reasonable.
Finally, my breakfast fix is covered no matter what direction I head out from home in. :D

Delicious Bagels, very nice staff and accommodating manager. Will definitly come back.

This is hands down the best bagel place around! Every place in new Brunswick is terrible, tried many places in east Brunswick and they were terrible too. This place makes the most delicious bagels!

Very nasty owner. I ordered two bagels with scallion cream cheese and got a pork roll and bagel with cream cheese. I drove home unknowing and then drove back after I realized I got the wrong order.
The manager/​owner did not care and refused to give me my money back. I told him that’s not how you do business and he did not care.
I will drive down the road to Manhattan Bagel for now on.
Very poor service.

Not every bagel is created equal. Bagel Express bagels are a bit crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. Baked on premise to perfection. The owner and staff are friendly, service is fast and they will make you whatever sandwich you like. I usually get a cooked breakfast sandwich (eggs, bacon, pork roll etc.) on a bagel or a bagel sandwich with Boars Head brand meats and cheese. I pass many other bagel shops to get here. They also have good muffins. I don’t drink coffee but there is a large selection of other drinks.

Another go to, close to home. Walking distance, which is great. I’ve been here several times. Bagels are good! Super Cinnamon Raisin is the best! They use Boars Head lunch meat, which is my preference. Always fresh. You can eat there, as they have a few tables, but I always opt to take out. They also have breakfast platters that are priced decently for the amount of food you get. They do home fries right!
Sometimes I call ahead, but mostly I just walk in. Orders are handled fairly quickly. Place usually has a line, but the orders come out.
Make sure you get there before three though as they close early!

The bagels are good enough, which is encouraging given the simplicity of the place. Tea lovers: take your own tea bags from home since all they have is Lipton black & decaf. I guess they don’t want to overshadow the cappuccino machine that looks like it was salvaged from a 1970s truck stop. And if I decide someday to name my business with the word «Bagel» in it, you can be sure I will turn out better samples that can be found here. But hunger is hunger; sometimes you just need to fuel the tank and move on.

I usually go to a different bagel store on route 18 and wanted to see if there’s one closer, so I tried this place. The place looked pretty clean and staff are friendly BUT the meat in my sandwiches was inadequate and i had to repeat my orders 3 times. They also left out 2 items that i asked for in my sandwiches and the bread was dry! :(
This is my first time giving a review online and I hope this helps this business to better their way of doing things.

I can honestly say this is one of my normal spots to grab a quick breakfast sandwich. I usually get a sausage, egg and cheese however I’ve tried their deli sandwiches such as the cheese steak or roast beef n cheese– okay, nothing great. I wasn’t too crazy about the deli side but for breakfast I’d def. recommend. Sometimes the Staff is on point and sometimes not so much but I deal with it because the owner is very nice. I dropped a star because the service can be much better. Environment is clean for the most part and location is great since it’s right by my house. And it’s a plus when there’s always parking :)

I come here every time I visit friends over in New Brunswick and not once have I had a bad experience. The service there is exceptional and they always say hi when you walk inside. The coffee and bagels are always fresh and they never over cook anything.

Delicious bagels. My go-​to order is simple, a whole wheat everything with butter. Keep an eye on them if you want your bagel toasted like I do! Sometimes they forget. Or they toast the outside not the inside (?) — Everything I’ve tried is good… except what is up with the coffee? It’s nothing to write home about. Tastes artificially flavored, I only buy it if I didn’t have enough time to make my morning cup at home. If they made better coffee I’d probably give 5 stars. I appreciate that they are open super early too.

I always forget about this place, because it’s hard to differentiate from the nearby Milltown bagels which I don’t like. All those strip shopping centers along that stretch are so nondescript. These guys serve up a good breakfast sandwich. But I don’t like when places use Styrofoam coffee cups. Trying to make a left turn out of here is dangerous and should be illegal. Hint: Make a right and there’s a safe U turn 100 feet ahead.

Sausage Egg and Cheese on a Super Cinnamon Raisin Bagel. Oh yeah I love me some super cinnamon raisin. It’s kind of a workout on the jaw but mmmm mmmm especially if you get there early enough for them to be warm.
I used to come here EVERY morning and they would make my food for me without even ordering. This would upset people waiting in line that did not even order yet when I would be standing in the back and suddenly my foods ready.
I actually used to pass several bagel stores on my way to Bagel Express when I lived in a different part of town. Now I live less than a ½ mile away and can take a early morning walk if I’d like. (I usually drive… don’t judge me.) Over the years I’ve steadily watched the prices go up while some of the less favorable competition has managed to keep prices consistent.
I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my life so I have no weigh in on that.

Love their wonderful variety of bagels, personally my favorite is a pork role fried egg and american cheese on an everything bagel, to die for.