Barton's Bagels — Restaurant in San Anselmo

Not great. We went on a Saturday late morning. My jalapeño bagel was frankly bad. It was hard and brittle, almost like a cracker. The smear also had an odd, oily texture. Did not seem fresh at all. The quality of this place is nowhere near Boichik, in my opinion.

To top everything off, the gentleman taking orders was slightly rude. He was outwardly impatient waiting on people to order. And to be clear, I am fine with rude restaurant service. In fact, I almost appreciate an establishment MORE when the food is great and the service is strictly business-like... no time to be anyone's friend.

However, if you're going to be rude with your service, your food better be good. Barton's food is not...

After growing up going here it has finally hit rock bottom. After a few bad bagels and poor customer service they gave us a bagel with the wrong cream cheese and when asked for the correct one, the worker quite literally couldn't have been more annoyed with us. I wish I could say this was the first and only time but it wasn’t and will continue to happen. I wish I could stand outside the building during their hours to tell everyone to go across the street to the coffee roaster or down the road to the marin coffee roasters both of which I have no association with but both have better bagels and...

This place is really great-very affordably priced extremely chewy bagels toasted to perfection and my personal favorite garlic chive cream cheese. I get the salt bagel every time and it slaps. Has the chew of a NY style bagel, not those bready bagels that everywhere else in California seems to sell. My husband is from Long Island NY and approves. They are obviously made with care! Weekends get busy, but the staff is friendly and efficient and they make the line go quick. I disagree with the low ratings-I hope people in the area appreciate how nice it is that we can get a decent bagel...