Glicks Balaclava — Restaurant in Melbourne

I just discovered Glicks as my friend brought over Bagels today which were incredible, extremely flavourful, fresh and clearly made with care and precision.

Side note but to the lady in the reviews below who gave Glicks a bad review based on serving customers without a mask on, I would suggest to that lady to pay attention to the law as businesses are not allowed to discriminate based on mask exemptions and that lady should not assume someone's health condition based on appearance. There needs to be more awareness about this and I'm upset to see that someone would use this as a reason to give a wonderful family business a much undeserved bad review. I will be visiting your outlets soon Glicks thankyou for your fabulous skill...

2.0

Twosheds visited Glicks for a smoked salmon, cream cheese and caper bagel. It is always very busy here so we had to wait quite a while. The lady who made my bagel was very friendly but it had an excess of cream cheese which overpowered the smoked salmon. Even though these are meant to be Melbourne’s best bagels, I have to say I’ve had better elsewhere. The shop as a whole doesn’t look very clean either. To boot, a man standing next to me pushed in front of me and asked the lady making my bagel “not to hold back on the arsenic” in the bagel. The whole experience reminded us why we don’t often...

This place is horrifying in terms of Health & Safety standards. Pay employees $16 cash, the floors never get washed (the grease is that thick employees slip over constantly), blood on cutlery without washing, windows left open overnight and pigeons fly in & sit on the pot that has the dipping chocolate; which they just reheat and reuse. No gloves, no washing hands, head chef screams at staff upstairs in the kitchen, they don’t wash utensils before reusing. I witnessed all this for 2 days before never returning, I never even went back to collect my pay for those 2 days - I couldn’t get out...