Bowery Bagels

Good bagels, but I do have to rave about the amazing barista. She suggested adding lavender to my vanilla latte and it was the best latte I have ever had!!! Seriously the perfect latte and she has such a fun personality.

Came to Bowery Bagels on a Saturday morning and it wasn't great.Let me start off by saying, the staff themselves, are great. Amazing energy!I came here and got the dan burnside breakfast sandwich and I was disappointed. It seems that a lot of the ingredients are premade and didn't have that crunchy taste fresh bagels have. Additionally, they don't seem to have any type of sauces - which was a bummer!As for the place, it is kind of small and there are minimal seats to be able to eat there. Definitely look for somewhere to be able to enjoy your bagel if you come. Overall - I would not recommend.

Super cute little neighborhood bagel shop making bagels fresh daily. They have something to please any pallet, including vegan options. Extremely nice people working there too. Many options for food and drinks to choose from so you won't soon get bored. There are only about 4 bar seats at the windows so prepare either for that or to take it with you, but do go! You won't be disappointed.

Bowery was a bummer! First: I love that all of their bagels are vegan, even the ones you wouldn't expect to be (I'm looking at you, Parmesan!). Second: they have a great collection of vegan spreads.Here's the first problem: at 7am when I went, I asked the employee if they'd be better toasted or just as they are. She said toasted -- which, not to be a bagel snob, is a red flag because 7am is *when they open* and you'd expect them to be warm and ready. The bagel itself, toasted, was decent. I just don't think it should have to be. I got coffee with it and it was very bad.Second problem: their vegan cream cheese was actually awful. Not sure what all of the positive reviews here were talking about. It's a cashew-based cream cheese that errs on the side of grainy. One cashew protip: soak them first!!! Another one: use a Vitamix! This did NOT meet the mark.Unfortunately there was no seating and there is also no public seating nearby because Portland hates homeless people so please do not expect to have somewhere to sit and enjoy your bagel.

Lovely service, but bummed they had run out of plain cream cheese halfway through the morning. Jalapeño schmear was offered as an alternative but it doesn't quite hit in the same way.

I really, really enjoyed my bagel and it was honestly probably one of the best I've ever had! I ordered a jalapeño salt bagel with the roasted jalapeño cream cheese. The bagel was fresh, toasty, and just plain delicious! I loved the cream cheese and the chunks of tangy jalapeños. Knocking one star only because I was disappointed that they didn't have many choices left when I came in. It was well over an hour before closing but it seemed that they were done making new bagels for the morning. Although I enjoyed the bagel I picked, I wish I had other options. Definitely would return to try the other flavors!

Bagels are always a go to for a quick breakfast for me and walking around town this was the perfect location for a quick bite. I ordered Sarah's special which consisted of red onion, lox, capers, and cream cheese. After about 10 minutes the bagel came out and while it was tasty I did feel like there could've been more lox, it felt as if the ratios were off with a lot of cream cheese and onion and little to no lox or capers. The bagel itself was good as well but nothing to jump up and down about.

The staff was very friendly and kind. Unfortunately, the bagels were not awesome. So small! Because they are so small, they are all crust, which translates to a hard chew, without that soft chewy center NY Bagels are famous for. The hummus and vegan spread are so watery that they both just make a huge mess. The flavor of the hummus was good. The flavor of the vegan spread was ok, but the texture was so grainy and clumpy. My jaw actually hurt when I was done eating.

The service here is wonderful, however, the food is not as great. I came in yesterday morning after reading all the wonderful reviews, and I'm pretty disappointed in the experience we had. The bagels were stale, assuming they made them, I would expect when coming in the morning the food would still be fresh. We had two plain bagels and an everything bagel. Outside of being stale, the everything bagel had weird seasonings on it, and a lot of the weird seasonings. I get the idea of trying to be different, but at least make an attempt on having good edible food. The cream cheese was ok, wasn't grainy but it was pretty bitter. They also had zero seating, I would hope that when you have an indoor shop that there would be somewhere to sit while waiting/eating. We ended up eating at a nearby food trucks seating area.

Delicious bagels! The smell of bacon was mesmerizing! Definitely recommend for a morning treat!