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Categories: Bagels, Sandwiches, Coffee & Tea [Edit]
Neighborhoods: Mid-City West, West HollywoodMon-Fri. 6:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sat-Sun. 6:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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If I gave this place a poor review...JASON would kill me, seriously.
But just to let the whole world know (or just L.A.) they make the best croissant sandwiches, jalapeno cheese bagels, lox, lox and cream cheese, vegetable cream cheese, chicken sandwich spread, tuna spread, and fruit plates hands down.
I go there to eat or we use them to cater breakfasts for us and they will deliver anywhere and make your platters anyway you want to. The service is amazing and the food is just too good.
YEY...
http://Examiner.com Article: Bagel Broker perfected the most important meal of the day - http://tinyurl.com/ya9...
This place has become my Sunday addiction. Hungover or not, my body NEEDS a broker's bagel every weekend. They are the closest thing to an east coast bagel I have come to find in our fair city of Angels. It's reasonably priced, the staff is always friendly and the prices aren't bad.
Today I had my first bacon/egg/cheese on a bagel from this place (believe it's a newish addition to their menu) and I was not disappointed.
They also have muffins if that tickles your fancy.
Good to note: the parking lot sucks and fills up quickly so bring quarters for meters. Also-on the weekends there sometimes tends to be a line (of hungover fools like myself) so get there early if you can.
This is my favorite bagel shop in Los Angeles.
I recommend ordering them un-toasted because the cream cheese is so delicate it melts very quickly.
I also think that the lox sandwich is better if ordered "open face" on the plate. Sometimes that is a more specific order than just "for here".
The hot egg bagel sandwich is $3.20 and that is a damn good deal. End of story.
Long time customer (4 years-at least once a week). This is a hard working bunch, and I NEVER had a bad bagel here- any time of day. My only complaint is that my wife makes me come to get bagels from here all the time because she likes them better than the bakery two blocks away. Definitely a good place that deserves the 5 stars.
Bagel Broker I love you!
Called in my order of 3 doz. bagels the day before. BB math 3 doz = 42! Asked if they could slice them too, no problem.
8:30 a.m. rolled in and my order was waiting for me, super pleasant guy behind the counter even threw in a extra cheese-onion bagel for my 20 month old son to munch in the car, and carried my bags out too.
Served up brunch, every flavor was deeeelicious. Loved the cheese-jalapeno and the everything-bagel (although it is not as oniony-garlicky as other everything bagels. Fresh, moist & chewy! Yum.
Worth the drive. I live less than 10 minutes from Brooklyn Bagel, but they are seriously surly there. I wouldn't even ask them to slice 3 doz bagels for me. And the last 3 times there the bagels were dry.
Yep, we're now spoiled by the Bagel Broker. Thank you!
I love this place. Their bialy and whitefish rocks. No, I am not Jewish and I have no idea what a good bagel is. That being said, the only negative comment I have about this place is that the staff's clothes are always messy with food all over them. What's more, the other day when I went in, the woman who served me had dirt under her nails. I was a bit turned off by this, even though they wear gloves to make your food. That is just unsightly. I'm still going to patronize them. Hopefully, the owners or management will read these posts and fix these issues.
Now I'm thinkin, maybe I shouldn't write this review. Maybe it's not fair. But, is it fair to live in a city that has the second largest Jewish population in the country and I can't find one good bagel?
I am not from NY where excellent bagel shops exist about every ten blocks. I am from Miami where a hungry jewish girl has to know where to look, because you CAN get a bad bagel there.
But after 11 years in LA i have tried every single bagel place that has ever been recommended to me with these words, "you haven't tried xxx bagels? they're great! They're like NY" and had given up years ago. Only really reliable sources could even tempt me to try.
Once my father read an article about the "sturgeon king" Barney Greengrass. (he read it aloud! Over the phone!) so i again trudged out my hopes and dreams of a GOOD bagel, lox, and cream cheese. Yuck. After that fiasco I swore off ever trying another bagel place west of the Mississippi, until the Broker...
My lovely friend "M" said, "Have you tried Bagel Broker? they're awesome" I said M, can i trust you? She said, I'm Jewish! I said, you're from ARIZONA! She said, But I'm a baker!
And she is. The most wonderful baker, from a family of bakers. Her cookies are divine and her cupcakes should be a controlled substance. So I went in. I had to try really hard not to walk out because, West Coasters, the bagels at Bagel Broker don't even LOOK like bagels, but I forced myself to have an open mind. I bought one plain, one onion, and a bialy.
They were very fresh, very nice round breads. They do not taste bad in any way. But they are not bagels. Period.
Best bagels in LA. There I said it... And of course we both know that we've had better in New York. But this is LA so us Jews, or New York transplants, or just plain old bagel lovers have to take what we can get. I have fond memories of an old coworker of mine, whom lives in LA and would pick up a big bag of fresh warm assorted bagels and bring them all the way to out dumpy little offices in Carson. I could smell them as soon as I came into the office and it always brightened my mornings. Bagel Broker is the real deal.
I told my roommate I got some bagels and that they were going to be the best tasting bagels he's ever had. And he asked me if it was Jewish owned, cuz apparently they're only good if they're Jewish.
Whaaaaaaat where have I been? Apparently, I've been eating disgusting Noah's standardized American bagels. J/K. Noah's, you aren't that disgusting.
BUT!! Free Monday morning Noah's at my office I EAT YOU NO MORE! Just one bite of the sesame bagel and I know I can never go back!!
Thank you, bagel broker. I can't possibly go broke with prices like these (but will get fat) eating your bagels. Chompity chomp chomps!!
When I moved to CA from NY 10 years ago I slowly began the process of letting go of my standards for pizza and bagels. Yes there's decent pizza, yes there are decent bagels but on the whole it's not the same of course. However, moving to LA right near the predominantly Jewish strip on Fairfax I have to admit a little glimmer of hope wormed it's way into my head when I thought about finally finding a great bagel stop.
For sure it definitely will not be Bagel Broker. I've never had an Everything bagel in my entire life that didn't have garlic and/or salt on it. They said they put garlic powder because the garlic is too strong for some people...that's great but it's an Everything bagel, made since the beginning of bagel time with well, everything. Anyway the everything was garbage, the garlic bagel decent and both had a minor saving grace of an actual crust. The texture is pretty good.
On a side note, the pricing to eat a toasted bagel with cream cheese is significantly more expensive than getting a bunch to go. Significantly. Keep your expectations tapered and get a bag and a tub to go, Bagel Broker is just OK.
Seriously... This is the #2 rated bagel shop on yelp (in L.A.)? AVERAGE
I'm gonna have to go against the granular on this one and give you an A-OK, Bagel Broker. I feel like I'm giving birth to a porcupine backwards by not giving 5 stars, but I got to be true to myself.
Now, I am no New Yorker, I am a Californian and lover of bagels. In fact, I love bagels so much to believe I was Jewish in my past life. But I do not love you Bagel Broker, after many attempts to create some sort of spark. Being the hopeless romantic that I am, I even went on Valentine's Day to see if there was any chance of love. I ordered a sesame bagel toasted with veggie cream cheese and tomatoes and onions. Whoever he was that took my order asked once, then as I was paying asked me again. When I got my bagel, the onions were missing. No biggie, because maybe it's not kosher to have onion breath in the morning. I wanted to like your bagel so bad, but we just didn't click.
Your bagel was crispy on the outside and dry and airy on the inside. Not chewy and dense the way I like it. The cream cheese was on the skimpy side and there was just one measly slab on tomato. It was just okay. I'm not gonna push it anymore, Bagel Broker. I'm not gonna go out of my way to make this work. If our love is not meant to be then we must let fate take its course. Maybe if I'm in your neighborhood again and feigning for a bagel, I'll look you up.
I'm sitting here at work very hung over. So of course, I plan on doing absolutely no actual work this morning and instead will extol the wonder that is Bagel Broker. See, I happened to have one of their dense, chewy onion bagels lying around when I woke up a blur-eyed, pale, shaky mess a few hours ago. And while it took me about half an hour to get it down, that is probably the only reason I was able to make it here on time and in a surprisingly good mood given the circumstances. That bagel was both yummy and soaked up enough of the brandy concoction sloshing around my insides to allow me to semi-function. Hurrah!
It's also wonderful when you're a normal, sober human being too, though. Their sandwiches are high quality and fresh, healthier than many other lunch options and a bargain at around $6 when you consider they come with all the trimmings plus olives, a pickle spear and potato or cucumber salad. The turkey bagel sandwich is perfection. The staff is efficient and kind, there are tables to eat inside if you come at a non-peak time (otherwise good luck finding a seat) and they have enough muffins, juices, cream cheeses and lox to please even the pickiest of people like myself.
There is nothing like a fat little carb round to get the day started, especially when they are as good as Bagel Broker makes them.
I pureed my own hummus out of chickpeas, lemon juice, roasted garlic, roasted red peppers, and olive oil. I sliced meaty pieces of zucchini and vine-ripened tomoato. I soaked slivers of red onion, procured fresh feta cheese from Whole Foods, and washed crisp pieces of green leaf lettuce. Yet despite all my efforts to make the ultimate hummus veggie sandwich, the best part of my concoction was the sesame seed bagel I bought at the Bagel Broker. The bagel wasn't just good -- it completely outshone the other ingredients. So much so that I wanted to wipe my pricey veggies into the garbage and focus all my energies on the tender dough and crisp toasted exterior.
But beyond the superb bagels that impress even my New York-born -and-raised, bagel snob friend Ali, the service at the strip-mall shop is about as no nonsense as it gets. Customers walk in, wait in the long, fast-moving line, get their bagels, and get out and on with their days. The whole operation is a thing of beauty -- as though I really have been transported to the East Coast where people don't complain if their poppy seed bagel seems slightly deficient in poppy seeds. The lack of hassle is refreshing. The miserably small parking lot, however, is not.
Staring a bag of half dozen* steaming little aliens, I take one out and bite into its crispy flesh. Immediately, its center a frothy cloud. Somebody call NASA... we got a few escapees from the Manhattan quarantine.
*= You get the 7th free!
The tender dough of this bagel shop makes my "ok you can eat carbs today" days so blissful. Even though I get my bagel scoop and toasted, with the RF cream cheese veggie sandwich, the tart and tanginess of my kosher pickle make my Saturday mornings. I am compelled to try the whitefish sandwich, I will get over my fear of mayonaise(that is, without my control) one of these days and indulge myself.
I wish, so wish that they would add a bit more "everything" to the everything bagel. When I lived in New York there was this little shop that had an everything bagel with every seed(like the bagel broker) and chunks of dried onion and garlic, d-e-l-i-c--i-o-u-s!
Toast that baby up for me, pleeease!
So far this is the BEST bagel shop in LA, I am so lucky that I can walk to this place!!!
I love you, Bagel Broker. If I'm jonesin for a jalapeno bagel, you're always there. Perhaps I want a little cheese with those peppers? You got that too. Onions? Yup. Onions and cheese? Yup. Bialy? Yup. Everything on the damn planet? Well... pretty much. Amazing whipped cream cheese that I might just lick straight from the bowl even without a bagel? Just promise you'll give me and that cheese a little private time, ok?
You'll even take those deliciously chewy bites of dough and make me a sammich with them. Sammiches - the earthly incarnation of true love. On a bagel they're like a full on stomach orgasm. Okay, this review is becoming a bit like a romance novel, so instead of getting all Nora Roberts on you, I'll just propose we spend a little more time together.
Egg sammy tomorrow mornin'? Okay then.
bagel broker is my favorite saturday morning bagel place. gimme a jalepeno cheese and a rye bagel with vegi spread and i'm set until dinner time. I like to graze over an extended period of time, half a bagel every half hour or so. :)
they have the perfect consistency of outside crunchiness and inside cheweyness. uhhhh my.. on rehab mornings (too much drinking the night before).. this is my medicine!
go get one!!
this is my favorite bagel place in l.a. - totally on par with H&H in new york. i love hitting this place in the morning when the bagels are still warm from the oven... no toasting necessary. i love the generous amount of schmear, especially the lox spread, which is loaded with lox goodness. the pumpernickel bagel really rocks my socks! mmmm!!!
Pretty good, but not the absolute best. The only reason I'd choose this place is to support more of a local store, vs a chain. Otherwise the Noah's Bagels have been consistently better. We bought 7 today... some were pretty good, some pretty dry. The cream cheese is a bit on the bland side. If you have a chance, get your cream cheese from Trader Joe's... it has a tartness that I love better than anywhere else.
two years ago I moved here from the East Coast. AKA Bagel Coast.
I moved to the Bay Area. An area rumored to house many a Jew.
Apparently my west coast brethren have not yet learned how to make a goddamn bagel.
THIS was the best bagel I have had in the state of California.
With fantastic lox piled atop the perfectly textured cream cheese with wonderfully sliced red onion.
And cucumber salad to side. Spot on, my friends.
Clearly owned and operated by the smartest people in Los Angeles.
I can't give 5 stars.
There were bagels such as blueberry, and customers were allowed to order them with lox.
That's inappropriate.
From the sea of traffic lights on Beverly across the street from the madding hordes of Price is Right crowdies, this place looks like one of those businesses that caters wedding or rents out cheap plastic chairs.
But, lo and behold, it is alive--I mean, open. There is even a small indoor seating area. Granted, it's more cramped than Lebron in Economy class, but thankfully, just as Lebron never flies Economy class, you can always take it to go.
On to the bagels. They are smaller than I expected. Sure I'm used to those behemoth greasy Coffee Bean artery atrocities so my perception is probably skewed. I had the jalapeno cheese bagel with jalapeno cheese spread. The bagel was perfectly crispy and chewy as other reviewers have said.
It's not the best bagel in the world. That honor probably goes to some hole in the wall deli in Murray Hill. But, it's a damn decent one. Like all good things in LA, it'll cost you though. These things are expensive!
At six o'clock in the morning when you're aching for bagel goodness and a decent cup of coffee without having to sit down at Canter's - this is the place. Quick efficient service gets you in and out of there in moments and the price is right. I usually get out with the bagel and coffee for less than five bucks.
It's a win.
YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM
that's from a New Yorker.
staff is friendly. bagels are delish.
This is one serious bagel. I normally never finish an entire bagel, too doughy I guess, but I killed an entire bagel from this place. The bagel was warm, not too chewy, not to bready. And the veggie cream cheese wasn't crazy salty like a lot of places do.
I haven't found a legit bagel place since I tasted ones in NY, but this place comes close.
I agree with everything in the other reviews in terms of bagel quality!! I'm a New York (as in the city) bagel gal myself, so finding a kickass bagel in the LA area was a HUGE challenge.
I would say that Bagel Broker has won the title of tastiest bagel in LA with perhaps Sam's Bagels on Larchmont a close second.
I recommend the turkey pastrami on a sandwich...truly yummy! Prices are reasonable...parking's easy...they put your sammie on a plate with a side and a pickle and cover it with plastic wrap for to-go orders!!
They also serve coffee drinks...one stop shoppin'!
really-shmeally the best bagels in los angeles.
the space is small, so be prepared to parking lot pimp' (eg eat in your car) or take it to go.
Hate to pile on, but damn, this is the place for great bagels. Egg, Pump, Everything, even blueberry---they all rock. BB so kicks the heiny of store-bought, and that of most 'bagel shops.'
If you're feelin' spendy, try the hand cut lox: It's worth it!
Finally did the eat-in dining experience the other day: Pick a sammich, pick a bagel, pick a chair and enjoy.
Service is quick and easy; friendly when they're not too slammed.
Watch out for that pesky parking lot, though. Weird angles, competing establishments and lazy drivers add up to the occasional near-miss.
Just call her the Bagel Bounty Hunter. In her former life as a full on carb eater, my mom could find any decent bagel within a hundred mile radius so it was no surprise that her radar honed in on Bagel Broker just around the corner from my house. And what a find it was...these bagels are the real deal, as close to New York as you are gonna get!
Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside, I prefer mine Jewish style - lox (fresh as any), capers, touch of lemon (at a mere $7.95) but the options here are plentiful from eggwiches to smoked whitefish to turkey pastrami. If only they'd uncover the secret recipe behind H&H's low fat tuna salad...then bagel enthusiasts would never have to make the trek to NYC again.
It's so exciting when you REALLY want something, and you FINALLY get it. I REALLLLLLLLLY wanted a 5 star bagel shop in L.A. And I FINALLLLLLLLY found it!
Bagel Broker has all kinds of things on its menu, a couple of tables inside so you can read your newspaper and smear your lox shmear on a fabulous toasted poppyseed bagel, and a waiting line worth waiting in. The parking lot is small, but come on, you're probably going here on Sunday morning and street parking is a viable option.
These are the bagels to envy.
Onion & cheese bagel?! Deeelicious!
Coffee? Hot and fresh.
Prices? Not bad at all.
This is my new bagel spot for when I'm feeling nice and decide to buy bagels for the office.
Fresh bagels... Check
On the way to work.. Check
Support local establishment......... Check
Cheese onion bagel assuming you have no meetings ......... Check
All good
Coming from a NY-er. Here is what you have to do:
Order the cheese or cheese and onion bagel toasted
with cream cheese
tomatoes
and onions
Delish.
The cheese gets crispy. The cream cheese gets all over the place. It's truly fabulous.
Did I mention? Bring an Altoids... or maybe a few.
I'm embarassed to admit that I lived down the street from Bagel Broker for years and never thought to try it until seeing it plugged on Entourage. (I figured TV writers probably know what they're talking about when it comes to delicious carbs.)
By far the best bagels in L.A. -- good enough that I no longer feel compelled to indulge in mail-order H&H. And the lox spread is amazing. The staff is friendly, the parking is easy, and the coffee doesn't suck. This is my new go-to breakfast place.
Oy, listen up LA. It's clear your palates are as warped as your driving habits. Bagel Broker makes a standard run of the mill bagel. Nothing horrible, but nothing spectacular. It may be an excellent bagel for California, but let's not get it twisted- it's not even a distant cousin of a good New York bagel. The key is crispy on the outside light and doughy on the inside. Their bagels more closely resemble the texture of a pretzel. Any self respecting New Yorker knows that, hell, they even know that in Jersey. In Bagel Broker's defense, they never claimed to serve New York bagels, so no harm no foul. It's YOU, my fellow yelpers, that have set them up to disappoint.
I had been on a NY-worthy bagel hunt since I moved out here from NYC. I finally found it at the Bagel Broker. It's pretty damn close to a great NY bagel (but no one will ever be as good as Ess-A-Bagel) as you can get and hands-down the best bagel you can get in LA. They even have the whitefish salad! The bagels are made fresh all day. It's not rare that they are down to their last few bagels even in the morning...but not to fear, more will come. I guess one not very New York thing about the Bagel Broker is that they have a cheese-onion bagel that sounds and looks nasty, but it is oh-so-good.
It's open early, the service is fast and the staff is nice, and even if there's a line out the door, it goes fairly quickly so don't let the line deter you. Oh yeah, and did I mention that these are the best bagels in LA?
I adore this place. Service is speedy, even though it's always busy. The everything bagel, toasted with butter, is $1.60 and really yummy. Iced coffee is $1.75. The cheese & onion and jalapeno cheddar bagels are also tasty, but toasting them seems to push the cheese over the edge on crispiness. Also, I recently noticed that the cheese on top is distinctly square, like a slice of processed cheese was just plopped on the bagel. Maybe it's a quality square of cheese, but this realization has pretty much turned me off to the cheese varieties here. Also, asking them to go easy on the butter is recommended, as I once got one practically swimming in the stuff.
Free parking lot. Cash is best (I think the credit card minimum is $10).
These are some of the best bagels I have ever had. I've eaten a lot of bagels back home in NJ and NYC. Their cheese bagels, though a bit greasy are crazy good. Their whipped cream cheese is yummy! The bagels are big so no need to get 2...though you'll want 2 anyway.
They can get pretty busy but service is fast and friendly. When you want bagels with cream cheese this is the place to go.
Nothing like a innovative and tasty bagel to get you through a long day at work.
The staff members were friendly and helpful and my bagel was delicious and cheap.
Heartily recommend.
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