Bagel City

Best bagel sandwiches and desserts ever! Everything is always fresh there and super tasty. They have been there for ages and I have been a customer there for years and they do not disappoint. I love their bagel club sandwiches and their petite four chocolate cake! Hmm yummy!

First things first, I have nothing bad to say about the people, they are all very pleasant. The food however leaves much to be desired. Low quality ingredients (Example: Kraft Cheese…) that are overpriced. Used to be decent several years ago, and it has gone downhill fast. Please go to Ize’s and save your taste buds the trouble.

On a visit from out of town, we saw this place on the way to where we are staying. The bagels were excellent! The veggie cream cheese and garlic dill cream cheese were fantastic. The staff were very friendly and above-​and-​beyond helpful. I think we’re going to have to go back tomorrow to try the bagel sandwiches!

Mediocre at best. Terrible bagels. Had an everything bagel with egg, cheese and sausage. The bagel was hard and absolutely flavorless. The egg appeared to be pre-​cooked with zero flavor, and the sausage was a hockey puck.

I used to like the bagels here but they have really changed. Smaller, hard and almost no taste. Not sure if the ingredients have been changed or they changed the baking method but this is not the place for bagels anymore. Service is also so slow.

Awesome bagels. Awesome and quick service. Just wish their prices weren’t so high for what you get. But bagel city has been around forever and will always be a Tahira-​fave!

Today’s the day. I’ve finally had enough of their mediocre bagels. I’ve come in several times on Sunday morning to grab a black & white bagel (harmony, baby) with cream cheese, and they’re fine but nothing to stop the presses for. Honestly, the suuuuuper friendly owner is what had won me over on Sundays, not the bagels. Today (weekday) I stopped in for chicken salad on poppy seed, and took it to-​go. I arrived back at my desk to find myself gnawing through a seriously stale bagel, and underwhelming chicken salad that was at least a day old. And now I’m $ 8 poorer. I’m done with Bagel City.

I went to buy a bunch of bagels for a brunch. Went to this place growing up and always liked it. But now, years later, poor bagels and poor service. Brought the bagels home and they were hard and a bit stale. When my wife called to note this (in a calm demeanor) the manager instantly got defensive and refused to be accountable for this. Additionally, I bought an bagel sandwich which tasted very bland.
Poor product+poor service=getting bagels somewhere else next time.

A LOT to choose from. Good bagels and cream cheese, really good prices. Get the black and white homemade cupcakes– you’re welcome.

GONE DOWN HILL, WON’T BE BACK.
Bagel city used to have the most fantastic plump, soft, hot & fresh bagels! –What they have now since the ownership change is tragic.
The bagels are hard, small, miss shapen, and thin. They’re ¹⁄₃ smaller from what they used to be, & I don’t believe they’re being made in house anymore. I have visited several times in the last 6 months to see if maybe they were just having an off day but no, even in the morning their bagels are already hard. I believe they may be getting them in frozen and thawed out to sell, or they get them in from somewhere else. These are NOT fresh bagels, and taste like they’ve made 12+ hours prior.
If I want a comprable subpar bagel, I can get Ray’s New York Bagels in the frozen food section of Giant Food, so I will not be back to Bagel City again. Sad, because I used to drive over an hour to get 3 dozen bagels for my family every month.
Bagel City: You ruined a good thing.

The bagels here are average. They went a bit overboard on the ‘hard’ outside and like a lot of the other recent posts, I too think that the bagels are on the small side. Their blueberry bagel is kinda odd, not sure if that is good or not. Instead of blueberries inside the bagel the outside is coated with freeze dried blueberry crumble.
Scallion cream cheese is tasty. Parking is ample and there is plenty of seating. The place is bigger than you would think for a ‘bagel joint’. They have an extensive menu like others have said but the mediocre bagel experience leaves me wondering if I really want to go back and try the sammies.

This is a pretty cool-​looking bagel shop located on Rockville Pike. The interior was spacious and inviting, with an abundance of mirrors lining the walls to give it another dimension. They have an extensive menu that gives their patrons tons of options, but I feel like with a big menu the quality of the things they offer can suffer a little bit. The service was a little lackluster, offering no personality and a bit of attitude.
I ordered the regular lox bagel. It’s a fillet of brined salmon in between two bagels with cream cheese. I also got lettuce and red onions put in as well. The lox bagel definitely had a salty-​smoky flavor, that complements the cream cheese nicely. The lettuce was a little limp and slightly discolored (brown-​ish), so it probably wasn’t as fresh as it could be. They were sparing on the onions, but generous on the cream cheese. The poppyseed bagel was a little smaller than expected, but overall it was a good sandwich.
Was it worth the value? I guess. Are there better places out there for bagels? Probably. There’s really nothing outstanding about this place other than a big menu. Maybe it was one of their «bad» days, but I’m willing to give Bagel City another try.

I’ve driven past the back of this shopping center and was always sort of curious about this place so I diverted my route to work to stop by today. The place is big so there’s lots of seating, they also have a pretty expansive menu. They have breakfast sandwiches, deli sandwiches, ice cream, cookies, muffins. They also have prepared cream cheese to take home.
I got the onion bagel with what was listed as chive cream cheese, (but was really scallion). No biggie there I like them both, and actually prefer scallion. The cream cheese was excellent, smooth with chunks of scallion. The bagel was disappointing, mostly because of size, it was quite small and if I’m paying $ 3.49 I’d expect a slightly larger bagel.
I might try them again for lunch or something, their cookies looked good, I do love a black and white cookie.

I ordered a bagel with nova cream cheese and the bagel tasted old/​stale. I ordered a side salad and asked for French dressing, the dressing in the packet of French was yellow so I checked the expiration date which expired in 2014! It’s 2015! Employees handed me another French that was expired and then Honey Mustard that was expired too. The employees were uninterested in even checking the date before handing me the expired dressing. Customer service was not good. Ize’s bagel is down the street and will be my bagel home base from now on!

This is seriously a cute place! I have been several times now and really enjoy it. They have a lot more to offer than just bagels and cream cheese! They do sandwiches, breakfast platters, cookies, muffins, coffee, ice cream, tons of different juices and milk, tons of chip choices and many other items!
I have ordered several of their bagels and they are delicious. Soft and flavorful! I would like to say that sometimes they overload the cream cheese, but hey that is better than lack of, it’s easy to swipe off and enjoy!
They also sell their cream cheese if you like the flavors!
Overall, as long as I live in the area I will keep coming back!

The crew here is really awesome… Always has a smile and always make the food fresh and hot… Best bagel joint in Rockville 2 hands down

First time coming here and probably my last. Lady at the register didn’t get my simple order for an eggwhich right by not charging me for two, when that’s what I asked for. Service behind the counter seems sporadic and unorganized. Waited for what seemed like 10 – 15 to get food for pickup. Also, the lady behind the counter calling numbers wasn’t even reading them correctly, so orders were getting mixed up.
Aside from the service, the food was okay. Bagels are pretty small, taste a little bland, and came with tiny hash browns???
Three star food with two star service.

Not sure why this place has such low reviews, though they seem mainly to come from people who come to Bagel City and don’t order bagels. Best veggie cream cheese I have ever tasted and the only place in the area to sell Unique Brand extra salty pretzels.
My go-​to is salt bagel, not toasted, veggie cream cheese, with a tomato on it and pickle on the side. My husband’s is the pizza bagels. Add a Snapple and spread out the Sunday paper — heavenly!
The only thing I’ve tried and not been crazy about is the petite four — hard mini bagels with bland salad fillings.

I stepped in here one day as I was really Jones’ing for a bagel w/​lox, tomato, cream cheese, onions and capers. That’s exactly what I got, on rye. Total yum. The place has an amazing menu and fantastic table service. You order it and they bring it, or you can get it to go. I had the bagel sandwich, a large diet Coke and matsoh ball soup… under 17 bucks. Nice. The only beef I had was the soup was a very teeny portion considering what you pay. Stay away from it. Stick to the sandwich

This place always brings back memories!
I have been coming here for decades! Really! When I first started dining here the place was half it’s size and so was the menu! This place offers first cut deli meats and awesome fresh made salads. Quite a few sweet and savory cream cheese spreads. All of the usual suspect but the egg salad, tuna and whitefish salads are my favorites. As a younger me I worked for a company around the corner (W. Bell & Company) and my boss ordered lunch for us at least twice a week.
I AM ADDICTED TO THE :
«Mexican Eggwich» scrambled eggs topped with chunky salsa and melted cheese on a (onion) bagel
«Hot Dog Go Round» pretty much a kosher scored grilled and placed in a hollowed out (poppy seed) bagel and I top it with slices of salami!
AND the whitefish, egg salad and first cut pastrami! (Well not all on the same bagel… Hmmm. No… Not on the same bagel)
The olive or dill, garlic cream cheese spreads are by far my favorites! What makes me go out of my way to get to this place is the fact that they cater to kids! They are one of the few bagel shops, that I have been visited, that offer PB&J! (I love PB&J too)
My only complaint is something that can not be helped. Saturday and Sunday mornings here are crazy! With that being said, the dinning area will be a bit of a mess. No waiters just counter people. It may take a bit of time to find a clean table or someone to clean it for you.