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Bruegger's Bagel Bakery
Categories: Restaurants Food Bagels Restaurants, Bagels [Edit]
1 Whitney AveNew Haven, CT 06510
(203) 773-3199
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Garage, Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Breakfast, Brunch
- Alcohol:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
9 reviews for Bruegger's Bagel Bakery
9 reviews in English
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Review from Brian C.
Bay Area
2/28/2011
This place is actually pretty good for what it stands for: serving basic lunch or breakfast.
A few things I like about Bruegger's Bagels in general and this one in particular:
1. the bagels are good (not so much the eggs and sausages);
2. the bottomless card that you can purchase for ~$100 is a yearly membership that grants you unlimited drinks (coffee, tea, soda);
3. the people who works there are really nice and friendly.
Remark: it should stay opened for diner too. -
Review from changun s.
Methuen, MA
3/3/2012
-no liquid sugar (dissolved sugar) for the iced coffee...
-service is SLOW!!
their everything bagel has SALT on it!!!! :) ....makes a difference compared to
dunkin donuts...
would prefer manhatten bagel compared to this!
(but DD has more locations/convenient) -
Review from Lisa Z.
Los Angeles, CA
11/15/2010
I don't know what kind of slop they're serving in the on campus dining hall, but it's not edible. This Bruegger's is maybe (maybe) a step up from that. I'd breakfast there only because I could dash across the street from my dorm room and still make it to class on time. Sure I may have stumbled through the door in a sun dried tomato bagel and drip coffee induced fog, but I at least appeared to be ready to drop knowledge on the dormant commerce clause like no one's business. Doesn't appearance count for something?
Sorry, Bruegger's, I never fell in love with you while we dated. But you will always have a special place in my friend zone. -
Review from Steph C.
7/19/2010
Sigh, Ben L. gives more 1 star reviews than he does any other kind, and I have to say, this one is unfair. Bruegger's isn't a special spot, but it doesn't try to be, and it's good for what it is. To my knowledge, there's nowhere else in town where you can even get bagels that were made on the premises. When you walk into Bruegger's, you can see the whole bagel-making apparatus clear as day, and the bagels you get are relatively fresh.
I've been to Bruegger's several times over the last few years, and my bagel addict boyfriend is at least a twice a week regular. There's a nice variety of bagels, all of which are fairly good, with nice crusts and chewy insides. You can also get bagel sandwiches, and my usual order is the smoked salmon sandwich on a plain toasted bagel. This comes with a nice portion of lox with plain cream cheese, red onion, sliced tomato, and capers. Lox and bagel is a pretty unassailable combination, and this sandwich is no exception. I do taste red onion all day when I eat this, but such is the nature of red onion. I've also strayed and tried the Western bagel sandwich with egg, bacon, green peppers, roasted red peppers, red onions, cheddar cheese and chipotle sauce. This is tasty, too, and a bit more decadent.
In addition to bagel-related goods, you can also get soups and salads, making this place a very decent choice for a casual lunch. You order at a counter and pay at a register, and service is generally friendly and efficient. There's plenty of space to sit, as well as free wireless. People are always hanging around with their laptops and they seem to be welcome. All in all, Bruegger's may not be a place to go out of your way for, but it's certainly good enough. It's probably more of a 3 than a 4, but to prevent the injustice of Bruegger's having a flat 2 star rating, I'm bumping it up a notch.Listed in: Make Me a Sandwich, Breaking the Fast and Bring…
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Review from Vitor L.
New Haven, CT
9/9/2011
Disappointing. Went there twice, service was terrible.
My latte was horribly prepared and the server spilled it all over the cup. Even the bagels are not specially good. -
Review from ruby w.
Los Angeles, CA
5/31/2010 1 photo
You East Costers need to Yelp more. This is located on a prime street next to the Yale campus and no Yelp review yet?
They make their own bagels here. The asagio cheese with lox & cream cheese was alright. From the set up and price I was expecting a more gourmet bagel. Unfortunately, it did not taste very flavorful, not chewy enough and the lox was bland. Tomatoes and capers were not enough to save this monstrosity. I expect damn good bagels everywhere. I'm in the East Coast for gods sakes! -
Review from Anna N.
New Haven, CT
2/17/2011
I really enjoy Bruegger's. my family is from the West Coast and every time they visit, they want to go here for "real East Coast bagels." The bagels are pretty tasty, and I loved the butternut squash soup. It's cheap and pretty good. I stumbled upon it when my usual coffee shop was closed and had a very pleasant time working there. It's a nice place to go that is not taken advantage of enough by students. We tend not to go up Whitney, but it's very close and yummy and not as crowded as places in the middle of campus.
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Review from Ben L.
Dallas, TX
8/12/2008
Imagine walking into a place (for instance, in New York City) where the coffee and bagels are served so rapidly that you barely have time to fumble for your money and get it ready before the cashier is waiting impatiently with hand outstretched.
Now, if you can imagine the exact opposite of that place, you will have an accurate impression of Bruegger's on Whitney Ave.
They have one guy busy making the breakfast sandwiches, at a pace that suggests a glacier trapped in molasses and running on very low batteries -- while three other employees wander around aimlessly with eyes glazed doing absolutely nothing -- while a line of people waits impatiently, becoming later and later for work.
This has happened to me here on three separate occasions over a period of several years, so it's not just a one-time thing.
Then there was a time that I put in an elaborate order for coffee and refreshments for an important breakfast meeting, then arrived that morning to find they had no record of the order at all, and had to keep important guests waiting for 20 minutes while they (at geriatric snail speed, of course) started from scratch to prepare the order that I'd phoned in the previous week!
There's no actual reason for this place to exist.
If you want great service and good coffee in the morning, go to the Dunkin' Donuts just up Whitney - perhaps the best in the city - or if you want gourmet-type food and drink (before 4pm) go to Judie's European bakery. -
Review from Sarah B.
San Francisco, CA
7/21/2010
As with Steph C., I'm writing this review mainly to big up Bruegger's from its current low rating -- it's really a 3-star place, but I'm giving it a 4. I spent a lot of time at Brueggers while I was living in New Haven. The bagels definitely are not up to New York standards, but what is, in New Haven? The bagels here are nonetheless the best in town -- fresh, satisfying, and chewy. There's free wireless, and you can stay here all day working and no one minds (I wrote large parts of my execrable third-year paper here). I don't remember the service being either particularly good or particularly bad, so I'd say it was fine for the price I was paying (I should note that because I was a student at the time I was never really in much of a rush).
