Eltana

Easy breakfast place! Came here for breakfast and we ordered two bagels with plain cream cheese and lox spread respectively, together with a chai latte. While we liked the bagels & drinks, it was also nothing out of the ordinary. We like how spacious the place is as well, making the dining experience very comfortable. The staff were also very nice and friendly - would recommend if you're looking for something easy for breakfast!

Sumac chicken sausage: this was the perfect portion for a breakfast bagel sandwich. Got it on a plain bagel with spicy garlic cream cheese and avocado! Loved the cream cheese flavor along with the rest of the sandwich!! Saffron chicken shawarma: got this on a plain bagel as well and it was sooo filling. Definitely a huge portion for breakfast but the meat was cooked perfectly. The scallion cream cheese paired nicely with the spices from the filling. The crunch from the cucumber and freshness of arugula made it light and refreshing! I would personally get this for brunch/lunch instead of brekkie! Cute inside area to sit in and service was super quick for a busy weekend morning. You can even go work and hang out there during less busy hours.

OK first thing to note, Eltana makes Montreal style bagels, so they're more dense, chewy and smaller than New York style bagels. They're also sweet (Eltana boils their in honey water). You have to change your expectations or else you will come out disappointed. The bagels here are delicious and you can tell the quality when you bite into them. I particularly love the everything bagel. They put the toppings on the top and bottoms of the bagels so you get deliciousness in each bite even if you're eating a bagel half. Everything bagel with za'atar scallion cream cheese - I echo the other reviewers who said that the amount of cream cheese is a bit on the light side. A lot of it is caught up in the middle hole of the bagel as well, so it's very uneven. The flavor of the cheese is pretty mild-there's scallion pieces and flavor, but it's hard to detect the sumac unless you're looking for it.Everything bagel with spicy garlic cream cheese - Wow, this was spicy! After having the za'atar scallion cream cheese, I was wondering if this flavor was going to be similarly wan. It was almost too spicy, but it worked great with the garlic flavor. There were chopped pieces of garlic inside to make a pungent spread.Bagel, cream cheese, and lox special (with tomato, cucumber, onion and capers) - Maybe I was expecting too much, but for $11.75 I was expecting more than four tiny pieces of lox on my sesame bagel. There seemed to be an imbalance of the ingredients for this. There were two large, thickly cut slices of tomato, with each slice the diameter of the bagel. Then, there was a small container of large capers, but too many to put on the bagel. The onions were also in a separate container, but not enough. There was a large pile of cucumber slices. I naively tried to pile on all the ingredients but it lead to a messy conclusion as everything slid out as soon as I took a bite. The cream cheese seemed to lubricate the ingredients' exits from the bagel on the opposite side. They really need to rethink how they allocate the components, because the amount of lox isn't enough to consume it as two bagel halfs, but also untenable as a sandwich. I will not be getting this again. This place will have me coming back for their bagels sans schmear (or get a schmear tub). The bagels good enough to stand on their own, which is a testament to their quality. Do not get the lox special, or else you will be sorely regretting it.

Whatever you do, stick to ordering only a bagel as is and toasted!This was my first time at Eltana in this area as I've only been to the one on CapHill and never had problems. When I walked, in the teenage workers behind the counter seemed frazzled and disorganized. One of them seemed unnecessarily busy and stressed out even though no customers were in line and everyone else seemed to be calmly sitting and eating. Also there is no need for 8 people to be crowded around the bagel making station at once. An assembly line process would probably make them more effective and efficient. The energy and vibe of seeing those workers work (?) were not it and really did not make me feel clean or comfortable as a customer. Anyway... I ordered a lox bagel to go and it was messy, wet, cold and I FOUND A HAIR IN IT. I was hesitate to even complain or walk the 3 blocks back in the rain, but it had to be brought to their attention in case the situation could have happened again to other customers.Fortunately the manager on site was kind enough to refund me and give me a toasted hot bagel free of charge (although I was also hesitate to eat anything else but I was hungry!!) so I'll give them an extra star.My latte was mediocre warm and tasted like milk with a splash of drip coffee. Hoping they have retrained their workers sanitation, cleanliness, taste of products and behavior in front of customers, especially for first time customers! Hoping they get better so they can maintain good retention!

I have to agree with other reviewers that service was a little scattered and chaotic but certainly not unfriendly. The bagels are smaller and denser than other local offerings. They were nice and toasted on the outside with a bready but not dry inside. We tried the everything bagel, poppyseed and a chicken shawarma sandwich on the whole wheat sesame. The whole wheat sesame was our least favorite as it definitely has that healthy bread vibe. The toppings were good and they weren't stingy with the veg, meat or cream cheese. And I can't argue with the price (~$22) for three bagels including a sandwich.

Cute vibes, nice staff, but I didn't find the toasted sesame bagel (with turkey bacon and egg) that impressive. I'll try a fresh bagel if I'm in the neighborhood again, but the texture was a bit dense and somehow neither toasted/crunchy nor chewy as I expect bagels to be. (I am from NYC so to be clear these were good but I'm picky). I did love the "hidden 36" and I wish I saw that before I ordered!!

Great ambiance to enjoy your bagel. Ordered a latte with oat milk and it was ok. The bagels didn't taste different if it wasn't wood fire, ordered the honey cream cheese but got almond butter instead and didn't notice until long ways in the car so check to make sure you got the right cream cheese.

Went here randomly and thought it was good except they forgot arugula in my sandwich. Overall I think they have great prices for what you get, compared to other bagel spots like old salt in the seattle area. I would've given a higher rating if they didn't forget my greens that I was expecting in my sandwich

Anywhere you go for a bagel and lox in Seattle, it's going to be $12-20, averaging $16 or so in this area. But the quality/quantity truly varies, and of the many o' spots I've sought out the right one - eltana has shown to have the freshest ingredients and most reasonable amounts of food for the average pricey price ($15.75).The photo attached is just 1 of 3 almost identical pieces I assembled from what comes with the lox plate! It comes disassembled, but this was everything in the box split equally on each of the 3 provided bagel halves. This was with ~heavy shmear~ (no upcharge for that btw).It's simple - a great bagel, this homemade cream cheese of sorts, "fresh" smoked salmon, plentiful capers and pickled additions, and cucumbers. Note: this rating is for this menu item alone bc it's been a venture of mine, but happy to be able to report out in it!

I don't normally write reviews, but that was just a bad bagel. You could tell it was fresh baked, so the overly chewy-ness of it was disappointing. As well, they were tiny, maybe 4-5 inches across. I get the price, this is Seattle, and I'm guessing this is just the style y'all are making bagels.... but wow, just not good