Came in for an early morning breakfast. I ordered the “Kenmore” a double egg sandwich with cheese, tomato and onions. I also ordered a croissant and a chai latte.

I don’t really know what I was expecting, but raw onions wasn’t it. Luckily they were extremely easy to remove, indeed the biggest problem with the sandwich was that the eggs and the tomato were so slippery that both halves of the sandwich were basically constantly sliding around and threatening to fall apart as I ate it. I had to squeeze together the bagel and it was definitely an extremely tricky sandwich to eat.

The eggs, as far I could tell weren’t seasoned, and neither were the tomatoes. That being said, the bagel was knockout and the sandwich overall left me satisfied.

The croissant tasted much better than it looked, very buttery (almost too buttery), but it was just clearly underbaked. I’m not sure if that’s always how they make their croissants but there was no flake, no golden brown crisp, anything. But again inside it had layers and the flavor was there.

Chai was better than average, though overly sweet.

There’s barely any room in the shop itself so I enjoyed my breakfast outside. The service was also not great with another customer coming and bringing me my sandwich because they barely call out the order so even though I was standing feet away from the pick up counter I hadn’t heard when they were finished. Same with the chai.

So I know that sounds like a lot of quibbles and they are. So why the four stars? Why not lower? Because this place is a bagel shop and it was clear that the bagels they offered were handmade freshly made and definitely the everything bagel I had was the highlight of my meal.

If I were to go back, I would only order a bagel with cream cheese, or grab bagels for a morning meeting. I think in some degree the restaurant should be judged by what they primarily do, and as a primary bagel place I thought the bagel was great.