Humble Bagel

Just like the awesome bagel shops in New York City ! Huge Fresh Bagels. Jaws literally get sore from chewing. These bagels give your jaw a work out. I recommend trying an everything bagel toasted with veggie cream cheese, tomatoes, capers, fresh spinach, and red onion. Delicious Vegetarian Option. Friendly Staff. Cool Neighborhood.

Best bagels in New Orleans! Absolutely love Humble Bagel. Great selection of bagels– plain, sesame, onion, everything, poppy seed, honey whole wheat, cinnamon raisin, and specials. They had chocolate chip and King cake bagels today. I’ve also had the sausage, egg and cheese bagel, which is a good choice for people that want some protein on their bagel. Today I got the lox bagel with cream cheese, onion, and chives. The lox is heavy, but I really like it. I usually try to share the lox bagel and a simpler bagel with a friend, for some variety. Smears are amazing too. I highly recommend this place. Don’t get there too late because they’ll sell out!

I grew up on Long Island, and bagels were a staple. I’ve eaten Montréal bagels, which are great, but I never saw how they were any better than New York bagels, despite how often Canadians will tell you how great they are. Canadians are big on telling you two things: how nice Canadians are, and how good Montréal bagels are. Honestly, to me, Long Island beats out the city, bagel-​wise, but I admit bias, and they’re both better than Montréal. But it’s close, all around. So I assumed everyone had at least decent bagels.
Then I moved to Atlanta to go to school. You cannot get a good bagel in Atlanta. They just don’t get it. It’s all about texture. But they don’t seem to realize this, south of the Mason Dixon. Bagels in the south are generally just giant slices of white bread.
So when I was in New Orleans for a wedding and a friend said that there was a great bagel place, well… let’s just say I was skeptical. So we go to Humble, and I get a bagel, expecting mediocre at best. I haven’t had a «real» bagel since I’ve moved south. But this place is world class. They’ve mastered the contrast between the crisp exterior and the dense, gluteny middle. They whip their own cream cheeses, and they’re great. It’s phenomenal. There isn’t a better bagel for 500 miles. Go here. Frequently. I need to move to New Orleans. This place is a treasure.

Hands down the best bagels in New Orleans! One of my most favorite treats is a large, carb loaded, cream cheese loaded bagel. Humble does not disappoint! Their bagels are reminiscent of those you can find in NY and one of the things I miss most about living in that area.
They can sell out, so get there early! It seems to get pretty packed with Tulane students on the weekends. The line moves efficiently, but be prepared to wait. \
My go-​to is either the everything with veggie cream cheese, or if I am feeling like a fat kid I get the everything with cream cheese, tomato, and BACON. Try it!
Note: NOT open on Tuesdays/​Wednesdays :(

Always my favorite. The staff and the way they treat you is enough to come on its own. Lovely
Humble bagel!
I love all the bagels I’ve had. They have a different specialty bagel every day and they have specialty cream cheeses for different seasons.
My favorite is the bacon egg and cheese bagel, little pricey but totally worth it.

Every time I come to this place the bagels are consistent in their freshness, deliciousness, and variety of choices.
The owners make you feel like part of the family.
The staff is efficient and friendly.
Best bagels in town.

I am a fan, their bagels are very very good and they are freshly made. They need a lesson on how to serve a good bagel with lox, cream cheese, red onion and capers. The first time I got it, they sqeeeeezed it into a sandwich very tightly wrapped in paper. It just doesn’t let the bagel and the topping sing. The second time I asked for it to be served open faced and it came with the cream cheese first then capers, then onions, then tomatoes, then the lox… it was a mess.
The proper order for an open faced lox with cream cheese is:
cream cheese, then capers, then lox, the tomatoes, then onions…
Please get this right and I’ll change it to 5 stars!

I’ll write a review for Humble, even though I’ve only been there twice and got the same thing both times.
Lox on everything bagel, tomato, red onion, capers. I swear I’m addicted to these, and Humble does a great job on them.
It’s delicious. The service was fast and friendly, and I pass by Freret on my way to work. Will definitely visit again when I’m wanting a bagel.

I read nothing but good things about Humble Bagel. The 3 stars says it all, A-​OK.
U can tell the bagels were made on site as each one looks different, at least not made/​molded by a machine. This morning I got a plain bagel with nothing on it with a ice tea (i’m a simple guy). The bagels, as stated on their website are made fresh every day. I arrived around 9am… it wasn’t fresh. Though it wasn’t stale either.
I’ve had bagels from NYC — SF. Maybe I had one on an off day :-/​
Good Luck,
–T

Four stars instead of five, because Humble Bagel likes to play with your heart by not being open a good 50% of the time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a bagel craving and headed on over, only to see that they’ve closed due to running out of bagels, a holiday, building repairs, etc. Stop being so emotionally unavailable, Humble Bagel!
That being said, these are the best bagels I’ve had in the city, and their tastiness is only enhanced by their constant game of hard-​to-​get. Definitely try their special cream cheeses — and if they happen to have cinnamon bagels on a day when they also have walnut cream cheese, prepare for a Cap’n Crunch-​esque flavor explosion in your mouth. Grab one of their fresh juices too, because #yolo or something. Avoid the salt bagel, as each one seems to have absorbed a good portion of the Aral Sea, and be wary of adding grilled tomato if you’re taking your carby feast to go (it gets VERY messy and will make you look like you have recently participated in some kind of blood sport).

I suggested this place to my friend who had never been before and now they are hooked.
Parking was easy but the place was packed which resulted in a bit of a wait. Also the space is small so it can kind of feel like wall-​to-​wall people which is something I am not crazy about.
I ordered the everything bagel with sausage, egg, and pepper jack cheese and it was delicious. As far as I know this is the best place to get a bagel in New Orleans.

This place makes a damn good bagel and lox. I remember when there really were no decent places to get this in NOLA and this place gets it spot on.
The everything bagel that held everything together was exactly how a bagel should be-​crispy on the outside, slightly chewy on the inside. The scallion cream cheese had a great flavor and the onions, tomatoes, and capers really brought everything together quite nicely.
The only downside is that it was 10 minutes to place the order, then another 10 minute wait to get the food. It’s kind of cramped inside so that meant lots of people standing around awkwardly bumping into each other. I’ll definitely be back when I feel like carbing it up but I’ll try to stick to off peak hours.

These bagels are top notch! The wheat everything bagel is killer! The staff is super friendly and really make for a great start to your day. Don’t forget to grab some of the fresh squeezed Orange Juice. I am from Florida and this OJ is better than I have had anywhere. Thanks for pumping out such great food.

I cannot tell you how excited I was this morning to finally get to the Humble Bagel before they ran out. However, I honestly have to admit I was a little disappointed.
I got a honey whole wheat bagel with egg, cheddar cheese and bacon. Sounds like a winner, amirite? The Pros: HUGE bagel and piping hot. The Con: it lacked FLAVOR! All I was asking for is a pinch of salt and pepper on my egg, you know? And maybe some butter…
All this being said, I am not ruling Humble Bagel out by any means. I am determined to go there again at the crack of dawn and get myself another bagel, this time with cream cheese. Definitely worth another try.

$ 8 for a breakfast sandwich is a bit high. The bagel is larger than any bagel I’ve seen but was really dry and salty. I ended up taking the bottom off and eating it, way too much bread otherwise.
I wouldnt go out of my way to go here…

Nice place, food is nothing special.
Went on a Saturday morning and ordered two breakfast bagel sandwiches. One with egg, cheese and bacon, and one with egg, cheese, and ham. Now the menu states the sandwiches come with 2 eggs. However, we didn’t seem to get 2 eggs on our sandwiches. The eggs were cooked on flat top and were over done and had no seasoning. Bagels (honey whole wheat everything and cinnamon raisin) were over toasted, dry and the interior lacked softness. Cheese was minimal, very minimal, the same could be said for the bacon and ham. Overall, it just wasn’t that good. For the price, we expected better.
Lastly, I’m not sure if it was the type of styrofoam cups they were using, but the coffee tasted like plastic. I like my coffee black and found it hard to drink. Not saying it was Humble Bagels fault totally, but they need to check that out.

New Orleans is a tough city for any one thinking about making bagels here. We are more used to our soft poor boy style Leidenheimer style of a soft french bread than the awesome deliciousness of a well made artisan style bread.
A few new entries in the past year are succeeding. Oak Street Bakery for one offers perhaps the best baked baguette and European style bread in the area.
And few bagel places have opened but closed quickly likely Artz Bagels.
This new offering is my new go to place for the best. biggest and just made well bagels I’ve had any where in the south (from Miami to New Orleans) !
I bought 6 assorted today, more because they just looked so awesome, but then when I got them home just couldn’t decide which to start off with. I have a toaster that accomodates bagels but after pulling the first one out, really thought I might have to toast it in the oven on broil as it might not fit.
I frankly couldn’t wait for th oven. I had my plan laid out– thinly sliced lox, cream cheese, red onions and capers.
I squeezed that bagel in the toaster, turned up the heat and prayed for a toasty bagel so I could start assembly!
Luckily, all but the top curve missed the toast. but hey, it led the way to a great slathering of cream cheese (Next time-​I will buy chive cheese there but I had cream cheese at home), a full slice of lox, thinly sliced red onion, tomatoe and capers!
Every bite was what I had longed for! I wish I could eat another one now but I amso pleasantly full that I leave the longing to sit and grow stronger for another Humble (really, not so humble!) bagel in the morning.
Note, Freret Street is a good location for some of our newer and inventive start ups– Dat Dog is just down the block is one example.
I don’t know where they are advertising if at all as I just did a search on the internet to find bagels and was surprised to find this pop up.
Anything this good deserves a compliment as well as a shout out for others to find. It may have been a secret as it was to me, but I plan to gossip a lot about these bagels!
Regards,

As practically the only bagel shop in New Orleans, it satisfies the Yankee in me and my desire for a good crusty-​chewy bagel. It’s a pretty simple shop, which works and is only opened until 1, which also works.
The cream cheese is creamy and there are a lot of varieties, which is happy. I wish they had egg bagels everyday and more options for bagel sandwiches (deli meat or something). Perhaps they’re looking to expand to lunch in the future. They’re also a bit on the pricey side, but since they have the corner on the market, they could charge more & thankfully don’t.
The bagels are really big & made in house (not frozen and shipped in, like some other places…) You can actually taste the steens.

Oh yum! These bagels are the real deal. They are soft on the inside with a chewy crust. I’ve sampled the plain, poppy seed and the sesame seed. All were delicious AND the seeds don’t pop off the bagel so that’s awesome.
The last egg & cheese sandwich I got was so enormous that I ate it for 2 meals. Plus the strawberry cream cheese is perfect. Just fresh Louisiana strawberries cut into creamy cheese… mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
My only complaints are the limited hours (at the moment Thursday — Sunday /​7 – 11 only). I can’t wait for them expand days and to lunch!

Many bagel places have opened in New Orleans over the years. Most closed in short order. The reason why hinges upon a simple question:
«Where do your bagels come from?»
In almost every case, the answer was «we get them from that place in Jefferson» or «our wonderful baker in Arabi» or somewhere – anywhere – other then «right here».
No! All the interesting schmears, coffee choices, and fancy atmospherics cannot obscure the fact that a bagel was made while Craig Ferguson was on and then dropped off cold in a big sack at sunrise. That’s why all those places are gone, and why I hope Humble is around for a long time.
Humble reminds me of the good bagel places I used to frequent while living in and around New York City. The boiling water pot and the oven are on premises – indeed, Humble puts them in the front room where you watch the baker at work. You can ask questions while waiting for your order and learn a thing or two about bagel-​making at it’s happening right before your eyes. (Don’t worry, they’re not making sausage or legislation – though sausage is an optional topping).
The menu is simple: four basic flavors of spread; egg, the aforementioned sausage, and bacon options (i.e. conclusively non-​kosher); and the usual crown jewel of most bagel shops, lox with capers and onions. Coffee, essential for properly washing down that crispy-​chewy-​creamy bagel goodness, comes from New Orleans Roasters.
Salmon is not one of the spread flavors, a minor disappointment for those of us who choose salmon spread as a way to feel like we’re eating lox at a cream cheese price. This is not a worry unless you are «a cheap douche» (as I was once described by a Unilocal reader who, sadly, has me figured out).
If I want remotely baked bagels, I can buy the two-​fer bag at Costco and then watch mold win the race to consume those unlucky tori in the second bag. Or I can come here and get a bagel *still warm from its actual creation*. As Neil deGrasse Tyson might put it, heat waves from the original Big Bake are still emanating from the surface. That’s fundamental, for mankind now knows that freshness is to a bagel as relativity is to the space-​time continuum.