Grabenstein's Bagels

Jamie T

Great place, great people, good bagels fresh, my fav bagel everything bagel toasted with lox cc and add capers so good. Plus I love the Healthcare worker discount 15% the bagels in the pic 1st one is the avocado 🥑 toast it was amazing today, 2nd pic jalapeño cheddar bagel with onion and chive cc added pickled onion 🌰 amazing. My favorite is a an everything bagel lox cc add capers it will change your life .

Adrienne Paul

Clean quiet store. Counter worker was really nice, Had a cinnamon raisin, and my friend had a rosemary. We’re good- nothing too fancy. I was pleasantly surprised w the rosemary salt one. It was really good!

Yü Wu

I checked out Rubinstein a couple of weeks ago on their grand opening day. Overall the experience was mediocre. The avocado toast tastes good although for $10 (after tax) it's quite overpriced. I also had a salted rosemary bagel with black truffle schmear. I enjoyed the interesting and unique flavors of both the bagel flavor and the schmear, but the bagel was so hard that my jaw hurt afterwards. Service was friendly and the store atmosphere is warm and convivial.

+1

Neil A

Second edited review, original below: I hate giving a 1 star review and decided to give this place another shot at 1:15pm on a Tues - they were open and had bagels. The QR code on the door for ordering went to a non-functional website but I was able to order on their website. So far so good. But...when I went in to get my bagel, they were out of the one I had ordered. They offered to cancel or use a different bagel, so I had to get a plain bagel. (I'm sure it's hard to keep these systems updated with available stock, but still a disappointing.) They made it quickly (given that it was started late) and the servers were friendly. The bagel itself was nice and chewy with a good flavor. The egg seemed to be one of those pre-cooked egg-patties (this was $13 and change after tip). Not bad, but not great. Original review: Sold out of bagels. It is a bagel shop... you had one job. No sign to indicate why they're closed, but the employee at least let me know and was apologetic. When it is open it is too crowded. I have a hard time finding the in between hour when I can get service, sit down, and there is food. Edit: Based on the kind response to my earlier review, I gave this place another shot. They had added a helpful SOLD OUT sign to the door. This was at noon on a Sunday.

Ben Mcalonie

This place is… ok. I got there around 11:30 and they only had jalepeno/cheddar and pumpkin bagels left. My fault for getting there “late” I suppose but to be out of at least a sesame bagels is weird. The bagels themselves are ok, nothing like NY but I will take what I can get in this city. The service was honestly kinda poor. There was not a huge line but we still waited 8 minutes for two identical bagels. The staff were talking most of the time and there didn’t seem to be too much urgency in getting orders out. The person who took our order was pretty quiet not very helpful. Also, it was $13 fo two small/medium sized bagels? This ain’t NY and those are way above NY prices. Whateva. If you NEED a bagel this will do.

Mitch Pohlkamp

When adding cream cheese to my to-go order I didn't realize the $4.50 was for such a small amount of schmear. $4.50 is crazy for an amount that barely covers a single bagel. Very disappointed after many good in-store experiences.

Zachary Williams

Ordered a couple of bagel sandwiches for delivery through Postmates, one was a BEC (for my partner) and one was the Double Down lox sandwich (for me). The bagels are pretty standard, nothing special. What really concerns me though, is the fact that they clearly used the same knife for cutting everything. There were fragments of egg on my lox sandwich (see photos with yellow egg on the bagels) and while this was not a huge deal for me, it can be a really serious issue for people with allergies. A similar issue happened at Rubinsteins in Eastlake, where I ordered a lox sandwich and my coworker ordered a blueberry bagel. Her blueberry bagel tasted so fishy because they used the same knife for both bagels, she had to take it back. She is also vegan, so that is a big deal. I think the workers at Rubinsteins need to be a bit more knowledgeable about cross-contamination since this seems to be a recurring issue.

Emily Danielson

We used to love Rubinstein bagels, but the bagels have really gone down hill in the past few months. They are much denser and more bread-like than bagel-like. The outside no longer has a good crunch it used to. Plus, their baker's dozens are now $35! I'm all for raising prices instead of mandatory service charges, but I can't justify that price for a mediocre product. Luckily there are a lot of new, local bagel spots that scratch the itch for a good bagel. Unfortunately Rubinstein's is no longer one of them.

Rose C

Been coming here for years. All of a sudden extremely skimpy with their lox lol. Like. A 2 inch skinny piece of lox. I literally laughed out loud this time when I got home and saw the sad situation they handed me. Might as well have gotten a regular bagel. Thought it was a one off but seems it’s a new rule for them, as this is the third time it’s happened. Not worth $20 for a ~whisper~ of lox on an “open face lox”. At this point it’s just an extremely overpriced “open face” bagel with some capers 😭 inflation is wild. Won’t be returning unfortunately.

EC

It was a bit depressing in here. Got sort of stared down by all of the staff. 10am completely out of basically 90% of the bagels, but you could see it was because someone had online ordered like 5 dozen bagels. Come on that shouldn't be allowed! Anyways, the bagel was terrible and others complained about a hard boiled egg on a sandwich that was meant to be breakfast style. The ambience was industrial and unpleasant, the fridge was basically empty, it was just a bit sad. Maybe it was an off day but I've never really enjoyed these bagels.