Pick A Bagel

This place sucks. I am not familiar with Hell’s Kitchen, and my favorite bagel place is all the way in Stuytown, but I had a hankering.
I came here on a weekend around lunch time… Needless to say, the line wrapped all the way around the restaurant. I understand that they were busy, but the guy who took my order got BOTH of the items I ordered completely wrong. Why? What if I had a food allergy? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Pick A Bagel has poor service and terrible food to match. My bagel was dry and light (like the product of a torrid pumice and cardboard love affair) and the cream cheese had a whipped consistency and strangely sweet aftertaste.
You are better off getting a bagel off a cart.

The food can be good, but ⁹⁄₁₀ times that I have ordered online or in person my order has been wrong. Despite very clear communication (and typing) I very rarely get the food I wanted. I don’t really understand.

Yuck. Regret my bagel and cream cheese. Service is slowwwwww.

Best Bagel in NYC! I live right next to this place and go several times a week. They have a really good chicken soup and for breakfast on the weekends I sometimes order omelets and they always are freshly made and deliver in about 10 minutes.

Great breakfast bagels! Just what NY NY is all about in the AM.

Do not order delivery — it takes them 2 hrs to bring bagels.

They recently changed their name to Café Fresco and did a minor interior update, which seemed fine. However, I went for my standard sunday afternoon egg&cheese bagel, and by 3pm the «grill is closed.»
not ok!

Good bagel… Friendly service. Right outside of the bus terminal… What’s not to like? Its nothing life changing, but it’s close and tasty enough.

When you’re staying in a hotel in NYC all by yourself and cannot make yourself a stinkin’ bagel breakfast sandwich, go here.
If you live in NYC, what the heck are you doing paying $ 8 for something you could make at home?!
It was a decent bagel sandwich. Nothing spectacular. But if I were an annoying (or more annoying) person, I would’ve asked for a sample of every cream cheese flavor. They looked like vats of gelato, all whipped and pretty.

Good, solid bagels and I found out they’ll deliver to my apt in Hells Kitchen.

If you want a quick bite for brunch/​lunch, this would be a good place to go to in hell’s kitchen. It’s a bit small for a bagel joint but the people are quick at execution and precise. They are very nice as well always making sure that someone got your order.
For breakfast food — They have a variety of fresh bagels and with that different types of cream cheeses too. Some examples are: strawberry and cream, scallions, lox, veggies, tofu. You can also order eggs/​bacon/​cheese bagels. They don’t seem to have a lot of low fat options though which would be nice. They don’t skim out on giving you lots of cream cheese. They also give a good chunk of just-​made eggs on your bagel.
Only thing is that they have a bagel sandwich +coffee/​tea special only on weekdays where you pay 50 – 75 cents for a small/​large coffee with your bagel. On weekends, expect to pay 1.40 for a small tea.

Pumpernickel bagel toasted with scallion cream cheese and cucumber slices — mmmmm!
It’s a reasonably priced place with fast/​friendly staff, and good strong coffee.

Tried their walnut raisin cream cheese and omg it was delish. They also have really good drip coffee. I went in a second time and tried their hot chocolate. I have no idea what kind it was but it was amazing. I didn’t get a chance to try more things there, but next time I’m in NY I’m definitely going back!

So good!
One of my favorite weekend treats is the scrambled egg breakfast sandwich with meat on a bagel and the iced cappuccino.
I often order weird toppings and have special requests and they get them right every time. The food is fresh and when I order delivery, it always comes fast and piping hot.
Inexpensive and delicious!

For company lunches we tried a few places around the theater district. We decided that Pick-​A-​Bagel was hands down our favorite.
1. They do custom orders very well and never mess up large orders.
(believe it or not they were the only deli that put sliced pickles onto the sandwich instead of on the side when we asked for them «on the sandwich».)
2. They are super super quick with delivery and everything is always hot upon delivery.
3. They are clean.
4. They take orders over the phone and understand how to charge an account without having to ask a million questions.
5. Yummy soaps and salads.
6. They always throw in some fruit or snacks on large orders!!!

The bagel is the best breakfast bread there is available, unfortunately, most bagel shops are about a dime a dozen, and are not much better than white toast. Fortunately, this is not one of these run of the mill bagel shops. They offer a variety of well-​boiled and baked bagels that are delicious… I am actually quite convinced that they blend their own cream cheese spreads at the location. My favorite is the lox spread on a double toasted everything bagel. The spreads are not flavored to taste like the item they have real large chunks mixed into a delicious plain cream cheese, which only adds to the joy of eating a bagel from this shop.

So, out of sheer convenience I have been going back to this place. It has improved drastically. I don’t know if they read the poor review but they are much more attentive and the owner (manager?) even went table to table to say hi (I thought that was a bit much but hey, that’s awesome).
There seems to be a new guy who works there who is totally on top of it.
I still don’t trust the chopped liver, white fish etc. I’ll stick to my egg whites and flat bagels.

Update. Went back the next day and was once again given the wrong kind of cream cheese. wtf? Also, their iced tea totally blows. I’ve been to another Pick A Bagel, and it wasn’t quite the fiasco. I guess that’s what I get for expecting decent service in Times Square.

This place has an edge over all other bagel places because of the selection of tofu cream cheses! Yum.

Good place To grab a cheap meal. There open late too. I think only new yorkers can appreciate this sometimes You want a bagel at 8pm.
They have tofu cream cheese Which is good for us lactose intolerant people. And good white fish salad.
About time this area got a bagel place.