Bagelshop — Restaurant in Nashville-Davidson

Unfortunately, one and done!

I very much looked forward, for months, for this startup bagel shop to open and become successful. Finally, I visited this morning for the first time and bought bagels, ... nothing on them, ... and each cost $4.00! That is wayyyyy tooo expensive for bagels that are just "ok." Being someone who often goes to the East Coast USA, including NYC, Philly, and WDC, seeing plain, just average bagels priced in Donelson at 4x the price as those on the East Coast is not only hilarious, it is borderline insulting.

Although nothing is wrong with the bagels at Donelson Bagelshop, there is nothing special about them, either. So, my mild contention with this place does not concern the average quality of their product, nor the slow, unwelcoming staff. Rather, the price of bagels with nothing on them is $4.00 each, .... $4.00 each!!!!!!

I bought two bagels at Donelson Bagleshop for $8.00!!! Wow! That's a lot of bread, just for very little bread!!!! For just a few dollars more back East, I can easily buy 13 better bagels, instead of just two for $8.00 at this shop.

You might ask, "Why go on about the price? If you don't want to pay those amounts, simply don't go to this shop." Or, perhaps better: "Well, buy your bagels on the East Coast and leave the Donelson Bagelshop alone!"

In response, I must mention that I informed the Bagelshop proprietor (?) regarding the pricing issue. Her response was, "Well, the East Coast has more bagel shops. If you buy a dozen bagels here, you have lower (per bagel) price." I'll leave it to the reader to check the price of a dozen bagels at this shop (spoiler alert- STILL way expensive). But my focus is on the statement- apparently, the proprietor (?) is well aware that a super-premium price can be placed on Donelson Bagelshop's bagels because supply is low (i.e., there are no other "real" bagel shops in the immediate area). That is a basic, but, likely in this case, a myopic outlook. This is because stronger and more consumer-oriented economic thinking would recognize that "the cost of anything is the foregone alternative." In other words, opportunity costs, . . . and the true price is what people are willing to pay.

Well, I'm not willing to pay $4.00 for one plain bagel. So, I'll not be returning to this shop anytime soon.

I hope that some day this startup bagel shop will have people waiting in line out their door and be extremely successful, because that means the entire area will be very upscale, even more so (apparently) than is much of Manhattan, NYC, or WDC, or...

Welp, i don't know what i expected other than a hipster experience, but here it is. I asked for a drink with the strongest coffee they have and i got a blank stare. I tried explaining, less water, more coffee beans or maybe a slower drip ? They didn't understand. Then i changed it to a shot of espresso. This is when they told me the espresso is the same bean that's in their drip coffee and mixed drinks. When I got the shot, it came in a hot brown glass, which looked cool but was impractical for coffee as there was no handle or insulation. Not to mention it tasted terrible and a little watery. We ordered a new York sandwich on a cacio e pepe bagel, which was fresh tasting even though a little bit light on the salmon and heavy on the whipped cream. Perfect amount of capers and onion. We also ordered a turkey sandwich on a Rosemary bagel, which sounded amazing but was actually really tough and hard to bite into. It was like the bagel was stale.

When we ordered a matcha, which is by definition a green tea, it came out half milk, half green tea. We didn't really want the milk.

I'm always wary of a mixed decor shop brushed gold lightbulb-featured chandeliers, so i had an inkling that that's about the same amount of effort they would put into their food and drinks, i was just hopeful that they would be better and wanted to give them a fair chance, just in case.

I might give it another chance one day but i don't see it changing for the better any time soon.

Also, something about the dirty dishes, trash, creamer, sugar, and "clean" silverware all being in the same spot was really off-putting.

The service was fast, and that was nice 👍

I'm giving 3 stars because it's something I'd eat but not something I'd be willing to pay for. It's a small business i think so I'm giving it one more than i...

Came in on a Sunday morning and the place was pretty busy. The line to order wasn't insanely long, maybe 6 customers before me. It took about 10 min to get to the front and place my order which isn't too bad. I ended up ordering a French toast bagel with mixed berry schmear to-go. It took a good 25 min to get my order which I think is ridiculous for a bagel and schmear. I understand if you need to wait a bit longer for a sandwich that needs to be cooked but toasting a bagel and putting some schmear on it shouldn't take that long. It seemed like they didn't really have a good system of getting these orders out fast. I was really hoping that the bagel itself would redeem this place but once I opened my bagel when I got home, it was covered in everything seasoning. That definitely ruined the bagel for me because I was hoping for a sweet light French toast flavor with a hint of fruits but instead got hit with the powerful everything seasoning. It was on both sides of my bagel and even got into my schmear. I don't think they kept their workstation clean in between orders, or else this wouldn't have happened. Now the texture of the bagels: I prefer my bagels fluffy with a slightly crunchy outside and soft interior. This bagel was very dense and almost dough like. I'm not sure if I came on an off day, but I doubt I'll be back when there are many other places to get great bagels...