Joey Bag A Donuts — Restaurant in Mount Pleasant

CHECK YOUR ORDER BEFORE YOU LEAVE.

First visit this morning. After reading the reviews, I was expecting to pay a premium for a premium product, so the total for 3 donuts and a bagel sandwich ($14 something) wasn’t a surprise. I liked the variety available, and the donuts all looked great. The staff were friendly as we waited for my sandwich, chatting about their concern about a shipment of ingredients being delayed while the Ravenel Bridge was closed waiting for ice to melt, and the store was spotless (I think I was their first customer of the day). Once the bagel was toasted, they took it into the kitchen, out of sight, to assemble my sandwich. I had asked for a recommendation, and was told sausage, egg, and cheese was popular, so I asked for sausage and cheese, no egg. The sandwich came out neatly wrapped in foil and placed in a separate bag from the two holding donuts. I appreciated that they didn’t want to damage the donuts; so many other places would just stuff as many as they could into a bag, without concern for how they would look smashed into each other.

I left and drove out of town towards Georgetown, and didn’t unwrap the sandwich until I was about 10 minutes up the road. It was still very warm when I bit into it and got a mouthful of egg. Which I hate. No sausage, maybe a little cheese, but lots and lots of egg.

I was too far away to consider turning around, so I tossed it, but tossing a probably $6 sandwich is painful, especially when there’s nowhere else to pick up some protein for another 45 minutes. So my first impression was pretty disappointing.

Eventually I sampled the donuts (custard, blueberry, & red velvet with a tiny smudge of cream cheese frosting), and they were good, as good as premium donuts typically are, but nothing so amazing that I would seek them out again next time I’m in the area. Overall it’s way ahead of Dunkin, KK, or Tim Hortons, a step above your average mom & pop, and on par with $2-$3 donuts pretty much anywhere.

Know what you’re in for, and unwrap your sandwich before you leave to avoid a...

I really want to give Joey Bag A Donuts five stars. The donuts are great, the bagels are great, the coffee is ok, and the service is relatively fast for how busy they are. Though in that comes the hitch. What if Disney World never figured out how guide guests waiting in line with "Disney lines"? That's this place every time I've been. I've been to Joey's a handful of times. Every time it's a guessing game of who's in line to order, who already ordered, who's just looking at the donuts before they get into line to order, did the guy in front of me think to ask if the person in front of them already ordered, as we both get passed by a guest who assumed we already ordered, but was either too impatient, too indignant or simply too shy to ask if we had ordered before taking up in front of us. Management, may I humbly suggest you take a couple hours of your day to order from a few organized but busy locations... such as Starbucks at 8:30am, Atlanta Bread at noon. The store is yours to maintain order in, not the guests' job to figure out each...

I arrived with no one in front of me, ordered 2 bagel sammies and a bagel and cream cheese, 2 cold brews and a smoothie. A guy came in 2 people behind me, he was a regular apparently. He ordered a sammie and a drink (both special order). The barista stopped in the middle of making my drinks to give him his, then the chef came out of the kitchen with his sandwich. I waited at least another 5 minutes maybe 10 before mine came out. To make matters worse, when I got home they mixed up the sammies so $45 dollars later plus a 20% tip, made to wait, and I didn't even get what I ordered. This is not my first time here, but it is the first time I was treated like I was less important then the boisterous Yankee fan. In the end the bagel sammies are really only so so. I hate picking the big guys over the little but next time I may go to Panera for my bagel sammie...

One more point, this place is listed as 2 $$, it should be $$$, the bagel sandwiches are 2 dollars more than Charleston Bagel and Panera. Charleston Bagel rocks, BTW,...