Woodgrain Bagel & Deli — Restaurant in Aurora

Convenient location for students, but overpriced. Bagels have good flavor, but are thin and cost over $4. They often break when used for sandwiches. I suggest stopping at Einstein's on the way to class to get a better bagel for $1.50. Same of the same candies that are in our vending machines are repackaged and sold for double. Kombucha that is normally $2 is $4-$5 here. A single sandwich without any sides is $8-9. Some sandwiches are premade and can't be customized despite being the same price as a typical lunch menu at a full-service restaurant. The drink sizes are small and a black coffee costs double that of Starbucks despite an inferior taste.

Clearly, the fact that it's the only cafe in our school building allows prices to be inflated. It's a matter of supply-demand and our relatively small campus population being able to support other food options. (I'm not...

Fast service but the food is just OK. You have a baseline price for a breakfast sandwich but essentially have to add on extras for extra cost in order for the sandwich to actually taste good. So if you just ordered the basic bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich and didn’t add a condiment or topping for extra $$, all you get is bacon and egg and cheese on a dry bagel. The sandwich design or the ordering could be clearer that you basically need to add a condiment or something extra. Their competitor on the Anschutz campus, Etai’s, has aioli as a default condiment on their breakfast sandwich, and it’s also about 25% cheaper.

The bagels themselves are not amazing. Maybe I’m just not a Montreal style bagel fan. Thin, crunchy hard on the outside, overly salted and simultaneously tasteless. This might be someone’s idea of a good bagel but...

Sooooo over priced it should be a sin! They repackage small serving sizes of cheezits and starbursts and sell them for quadruple the price of a family size bag from a drug store. They take advantage of this location and the food desert that exists around the campus.

Today, I waited at the counter for over 5 minutes in order to get service when there was no one else in the cafe. There were three employees avoiding eye contact with me and none of them made any effort to acknowledge my presence. This is not an isolated event. I only have 10 minute breaks between classes and most days I am afraid that's not enough time to pick up a coffee. I would give 1 star for convenience, and maybe a 0.5 star for the vanilla lattes but most of the coffee drinks taste burnt and it actually pains me to spend my money here. Do...