Bagel Barn

Will be missing bagel barn when we go off to college :(Always a go-​to place on casual mornings, when hungry after-​school, or just a place to hang out with friends. I usually order the wheat bagel, toasted with cream cheese but occasionally will change it to egg and cheese on wheat toast or something with home fries. Stan always gets something with tons of meat — we both love this place, as it is been an important place not just for our tummies, but high school experience.
~Amanda

Bagel Barns bagels are so good my kids request then when we come to visit. Glad I don’t have to bring those Everything Bagels on a plane!!! Yummers

The only game in the area and they know it. The remodel is beautiful and vast improvement in atmosphere but the bagel quality has gone down hill and gotten very spotty while prices went up.
This says it all: except at certain holidays the nova is acme packaged you can get next door at shop rite for ½ the price. Oddly every once and a while they have hand sliced that’s like buttah.
Do what I do and grab the freshest bagels you can find and run over to shop rite for acme and the fixings. Then go home and make it just the way you like it.
Never been impressed w sandwiches or meats so I don’t waste my time.
When o when will a real bagel maker open shop in Pton? I’d stake anyone who worked at ess a bagel or h&h and we’d make a mint. Lots of Ny transplants … and no good bagels within 35 miles. Sigh.

The place was the best in town but now it just is not. Bagels have lost their crispness they are soggy and gross. the tuna salad used to be my favorite but now it is overly fishy and gross like they are using the cheapest chunk tuna. Very disappointing!

DO NOT go here. Cute place inside, look in the bagel racks, there are fruit flys ALL over the bagels. Also, I wasn’t that impressed by my take out. I will not be returning.

Yes! Delicious! Service is great! Amazing bagels! Must go.

Literally amazing. Great bagels. Awesome variety of spreads. Best chicken caesar wrap I’ve ever had. I recommend calling your order in because it’s usually pretty crowed in the morning.

This was my favorite bagel joint when I lived in the Princeton area. Granted, they were pretty much the only game in town, but still produce an above average bagel. The lines always reflected the popularity of the place.
I was excited to have an opportunity to grab a salt with low-​fat veg & tomato today while visiting the area.
I walked in and the place was completely remodeled since my last visit in 2013. Well done.
However, they failed to address the one major complaint everyone had about the place. The lines and waiting area make no sense whatsoever.
I’m being picky I know but after the cash they dumped into the place, ya think they flow would have been better.
Sorry to say this but the bagels weren’t so hot… a but chewy on the inside and tough on the outside. I wasn’t expecting a fresh-​out-​of-​the-​oven salt bagel @ 10:30 am on a Monday, however it tasted like a Sunday leftover.
Lastly, they forgot my tomato.
I’ll still go back if I am in the area, I am chalking today’s let down as a random off day.

I use to stop at bagel barn everyday for a bagel with cream cheese but it got quite pricey quite quickly. At least once a week I am crammed for lunch and need to order sandwiches to have something quick for the office staff. Well I have never arrived and my order be ready even calling 20 minutes in advance to be told 20 minutes to get there and wait an additional 10. Well today has pushed me over the edge! I called at 12:40 was told 20 minutes, I got there @ 1:01 well I didn’t leave with my food til 1:32. First I wait as they are helping another customer «with the wrong food» the boy doesn’t say anything to me about standing there. I attempt to ask about my order he 1 minutes me with his hand. Then 7 minutes later a girl asked if I was being helped I explained I only had a short time and my food should have been ready. No apologies for the wait or anything. Then she comes over to me to tell me the bagels I ordered were not available. So they hadn’t even started my order. I explain my frustration to her AGAIN and she became very rude! Finally I get my food get back to the office and the sandwiches are wrong! UGH I don’t know if I will return. Such a shame to because it is the closest deli now that Carvers has closed.

This is the cleanest deli around. They have the best bagels in the tri-​state area. All their food is fresh and delicious. Fabulous homemade salads with amazing flavor. Always willing to accommodate their customers with whatever they need. They cater small private parties to large events. I wouldn’t go anywhere else for bagels or my catering needs.

I am truly done with this place. I just paid $ 4.00 for a bagel with cream cheese. The employees said the owner charges more to have them cut your bagel too. The owner has increased the prices so much that even the rich Montgomery and Princeton folk don’t want to pay these prices. For the rest of us Average Joes who aren’t rich and only go there because their is no other alternative when you are running late to work, we have no other options in the area. They even charge for add ons to sandwiches like lettuce and tomato, which are two things that come standard in most delis/​restaurants. The employees are still rude, act they are doing you a favor by serving you and I’m a daily customer. I am done!!!

The best bagels and the best people. Fresh salads, creative sandwiches and great coffee. Yes I will wait on line! I love this place. Going in there today I locked my keys in the car and forgot my phone. The owner and staff were so helpful. I used their phone and tried to get help a few times, but they made me comfortable and called a cab for me when I gave up. They put quality in everything they do.

Dropping to 3-​stars as they appear to have significantly upped the prices after the remodeling. The service is also considerably less friendly than previously. Not rude by any means, but «curt» is probably the right word. To be fair, wait times are now significantly less than previously, so maybe this isn’t an entirely bad thing :)
The bagels and deli sandwiches are still as good as ever, but now all sandwich fillings (meats, cheese, etc.) appear to be a-​la-​carte and my (already overpriced) $ 8.00 sandwich is now (an exorbitant) $ 10.00! They also appear to have done away with the $ 0.25 day olds, which is disappointing, as the savings there used to offset the high prices of the prepared foods.
Sorry, but no bagel sandwich is worth $ 10. I mean… it’s a BAGEL SANDWICH after all, not gourmet food. I don’t care how «upscale» the owners are trying to make the place look, that’s the reality, folks. Following the recommendation of a friend, I tried another area bagel shop and was able to order the same grilled chicken sandwich sandwich for under $ 7, so probably won’t be returning here.

One time, we brought bagels over to a friend’s house for breakfast on a Friday morning. The bagels we got from Bagel Barn were soft as the thigh of an infant, pillowy and fluffy, slightly crispy and just perfect. Like Long Island had nothing on those bagels.
But every SINGLE time I have gone back since it’s been inconsistent. More often than not, the bagel has been huge but hard on the outside and soft on the inside. This sounds like the perfect baked good EXCEPT when you get it toasted with cream cheese and are driving in a car, attempting to consume breakfast where every bite spews delicious scallion cream cheese directly out of the vehicle which is meant to carry that spread into your mouth. Not happy.
The good news is that this bagel shop is frickin GORgeous. Like their cream cheese case is always spectacularly beautiful. I feel like I’m not even doing it justice. It’s clean inside, well organized, the menu is huge, staff friendly, coffee is weak and prices are high.
I’ll eventually visit again because it’s my neighborhood bagel shop and I’m from New Jersey. So here’s two things (maybe three)
One: stop over baking or whatevering your bagels so they’re soft as the fold of an angel’s cloak again.
Two: never stop making scallion cream cheese, it’s the best.
Three: it’s August and this is New Jersey. I expect better tomatoes. Period.
Still ok in my book. See you again one Saturday morning.

I am very picky about my chicken salad! The young man waiting on me offered me a sample, and it was delicious! Full of chunks of white meat, not heavy on the mayo, the lettuce was actually lettuce of value, and they use purple onions! My wrap was huge enough for two meals. The staff is absolutely delightful, too. It’s not «cheap» like some of the reviews state, but if you want cheap go to the nearby drive thru. Thanks for the delicious wrap!

The bagels are good but the prices are not. $ 3.86 for a bagel with butter? I’m not sure why the bagels here are nearly double the price of bagels in Manhattan. Combine that with slow service, a congested waiting area and a $ 10 credit card minimum… no thanks.

Hands down this is the best bagel place in the tri state area. They have a constant flow of traffic coming through so you have to be patient and wait it out. My go to choices are an everything with cream cheese, a plain with egg and cheese or a tuna melt for lunch. I have been going here for well over a decade and have never once heard anything bad about their food. I was disappointed with their recent remodel that it didn’t help the line situation at all but the foods too good at a teeny price point that it’s hard to give a hoot! Enjoy and thank me later!

I’m lucky to say the best bagels I’ve ever had are in my hometown. These are just so awesome. Big, chewy and tasty. I really like the everything and onion bagels. I usually just get them with plain crea cheese but sometimes I’ll do a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Also the bialis are fantastic and good bialis are tough to find. If you’re in the Princeton area this place is definitely worth the visit

This review is based on their temporary location. This shop is pretty top notch. I honestly can’t think of what more I would want from a local bagel shop. The bagels are fresh, tasty and large. The sandwiches are made with great ingredients. The staff are friendly and efficient. For the specifics, we’ve tried the garlic and everything bagels and love them both. We also tried the lox and cream cheese bagel which like most other bagel shops was a bit too heavy on the cream cheese for my preference. In addition, we tried a bacon egg and cheese on a toasted garlic bagel which was perfect. Altogether, I am really happy this shop is in the neighborhood!

confession: i love bagels. i really LOVE bagels.
i’m always on the hunt for the best bagel in the area, and while ‘bagel barn’ doesn’t top ‘bagels and cream’ in robbinsville, nj… it’s a pretty close second.
thanks to the awesome Unilocal reviews, i made my way to bagel barn after having my car serviced at Princeton VW. 11am-​ish on a snowy saturday morning, the rather large store in a strip mall off of rt 206 was quite crowded. the line was organized and moved quickly past the deli case– stocked with varieties of cream cheeses and spreads, egg salad, chicken salad… the usual suspects and then some.
the order: an everything bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese, and a french toast bagel with a little bit of butter (thanks to Unilocaler suggestions, i had to try it).
luckily, the french toast bagels had just come out and were still piping hot… thanks Unilocal,i have a new addiction. this bagel was SOOOO good. definitely better than the one at ‘bagel street’ in plainsboro, nj (and that one’s not bad). the everything bagel was great too, and the garlic cream cheese was a nice addition– not often I see that offered at a bagel place.
the service: quick and warm, with a smile. no complaints, even though there was a little bit of confusion with order numbers once they came out– no biggie.
the extras: lots of beverage options here, chips, cupcakes and some sweets… including gift boxes/​bags of david bradley chocolates available for sale by the register. seating is available too, but you may have to wait– most tables were occupied.
seriously, though– if you’re in the area: GO. eat a french toast bagel. spend the next few weeks salivating as you reminisce about it. repeat.