Rosenfeld Bagel Company

Best challah in Newton. Bagels are very good. They now accept credit cards. Great neighborhood place. Not sure why some complain about the staff and service. They are very friendly and attentive.
The space is very small and can get a bit crowded. They do run out of challah and bagels toward the end of busy days. Don’t wait until closing time on a Friday or you may be disappointed.

Odd hours, hit or miss on if you’l actually get what you came in for, and terrible service for the most part.
The bagels are okay and the challah delicious, if they make enough to last until 9 AM.
Overall, they have potential, but the service and origination set them back.

I am not a big fan of their bagels but love their home made cream cheese! I don’t live nearby but just go there to buy their cream cheese once in a while :-) I wish they take debit/​credit cards and have longer store hours!

Rosenfelds Bagels are great, the cream cheese containers are reasonably priced and really good. The multi grain bagels are my favorite!

Best bagels in the city. Interesting flavors, amazing cream cheese, everything is baked fresh. It’s hard to just eat one at a time.

Well just got into town and or second stop was for bagles! Well come to find out they are closed for vacation. If would have been nice to post it on Unilocal,would have saved a trip.

Great bagels. Not absolutely transcendent, per se, but really solid and consistent. Not the most friendly service, but who really cares when the bagels are this good?

I arrived this Sunday morning at 7:30 AM (one half-​hour after opening) to find that they were already out of nearly half of the kinds of bagels I wanted to buy. The ones I ended up with were okay, but nothing special.

Bagels were hard and lacked flavor. The staff was less than friendly and I had no idea it was cash only till I went to pay. A sign on the door indicating cash only would be nice.

Best challah ever!!!

Sullen, obnoxious staff serving stale bagels. Oh — «cash only» (tax fraud!).
What’s not to hate?
The bagels, or at least the ones available, were garbage.
No indication that this shabby hole won’t take credit cards until we got to the register. Thanks for wasting our time.
Avoid.

I got a cinnamon bagel with the honey walnut cream cheese. The bagel itself was mediocre and really hard. They also put about a fistful of cream cheese in it. I had to scoop the majority of it out. My boyfriend and I ate our bagels outside and his cream cheese kept plopping out and dropping to the floor. I don’t think this place was mind blowing.

Best bagels and challah in Newton. The hours are strange and the service is brisk– but the product is great. It’s generally known as the best spot for challah around these parts. Lines on Friday morning– lucky to get a loaf by noon!
Parking is horrible.

Really really fresh and great bagels. The smell is amazing!!! There were lots of variety and the service was fantastic… My only complaint is there is no where to eat in… This doesn’t matter in the warmer seasons because you can eat out in the park but in the winter there is no where to eat.

I’m not going to lie, I grew up on Rosenfeld’s bagel so perhaps I’m a bit biased, but just to make sure, I have tried several other shops to compare. First and foremost their cream cheese is the best around; light, fluffy, easily spread. The other shops just don’t have the same consistency.
As for the bagels themselves, these are as close to NYC bagels as you can get. Good strong exterior with a super fresh and soft inside. I typically go for the everything bagels on a Sunday morning. Plus, their selection smoked fish is on point!

The best bagels in the world? No. Those would be from the Strathmore bagel mill in Central Long Island. But as good a bagel as you can get before you hit the New York border? Absolutely.
A tiny store in a congested locale. Closed on Monday and Tuesday. Closed by 1:30 even when they’re open. Counter staff runs the gamut from surly to moribund (except the extremely cute one!), but it’s not the Soup Nazi’s. Lines out the door into the snow and everything sells out every day. Just like it always has. Your bad review don’t really matter, do it?
From the snivelng I read in some reviews, it’s apparently not clear that this business has a telephone with a listed number. They answer it when they’re open and they don’t when they’re closed. On it, you can ask about the wait. Or you can order your bagels the day before. They will make at least a desultory effort to satisfy your personal yeasty needs and fetishes. I, for example, MUST have half-​baked flat bagels (not bialys) to patch the gaping rent in my soul. Rosenfeld’s worked with me to fine-​tune the parameters, and now you can’t tell me from a regular person.

So the bagels are pretty good. Nope, they’re not NYC bagels. funny how NYC peeps come here for school and complain about everything. Really, just go back.
But anyway, Rosenfelds. I like the bagels and cream cheese. They have salt bagels which are awesome. But the hours lose them at least one star. Closed Monday and Tuesday? Why? How does this benefit your business? You’re selling flour, yeast and salt at (at least) a 300% profit.
Just be open all the time. You’re closed for 40% of the business week and folks who work in the area are forced to go elsewhere.
Again, the bagels are good. But one should not have to time a visit to a bagel store.

Growing up in Newton Centre, I really did myself a disservice not going to this place more often. Well, now that I work in Newton Centre… its time to make up for it.
This place is tucked away, with limited parking in Newton Centre. But I assure you its worth going in. Bagel and Challah selection is great. Fresh and the staff are so friendly. I think the prices were fair, around $ 6 for ½ a dozen bagels. I would say, if you are going to pick up bagels or breakfast to bring somewhere, Don’t go to Dunkins (Bad service) go here (amazing service)

The absolute best bagels! Its been quite a few years since my days at Northeastern University. I still am searching for a bagel that tops Rosenfelds bagels out here in California with no luck… If your in the Boston area its well worth the trip!

This bagel store is litterally a hole in the wall, with very little outside presence, but if you happen to be walking by when they are making the bagels the fantastic smell coming out of the place will get you in the door. You probably would have had to have ben told about this place to go there. It is not a café where you would take your computer in, have a coffee and bagel and hang out for an hour or so. It is a walk in take a dozen of bagels and homemade cream cheese (phenomenal by the way) and go home kind of place.
The bagels are delicious and so fresh and doughy. I love them and think they are the best in Boston and around the area. All of them are great and I could not just pickone type to recommend. The everything, plain, blueberry, onion, sesame and the list goes on… TRY IT!