The Bagel Tree North — Restaurant in Wantage

TL:DR - It was ... fine, I guess? Went in later on a Sunday morning, and it was busy, but not overly so. Spacious interior with plenty of seating if you'd like to stay and eat. Easy ordering from the front counter, and clear menu in full view. After some consideration, I got a whole-wheat bagel with butter, chocolate croissant, Oreo cake, and coffee cake.

The "whole wheat" bagel was basically a plain, white-bread style bagel. As a side note, the "whole grain" bagel also suffered the same fate; both had very little grains, whole wheat, etc. and were basically white, plain bagels. The amount of butter was kind of on the lean side - around 1/8 of an inch. That's not very much butter.

The chocolate croissant had chocolate in it. That's about it. The croissant pastry was tough, and not very flakey, or buttery. I ended up peeling it open to eat the chocolate, and throwing the rest into the garbage. It take a lot for me to throw food away.

The Oreo cake mostly tasted like supermarket frosting. The chocolate cake part barely tasted like chocolate, though it was really dark brown. Rather disappointing, but I saved the rest of it to soak in milk and eat another time.

The coffee cake was buttery, crumbly, and delicious. It's weird to say the best thing I got at a bagel store was the coffee cake. The ratio of crumble to cake was spot on, and tasty.

The staff there were busy, so there wasn't a lot of small talk. However, they did make a mistake with the person in front of me in line's order. Luckily, I could see them making my bagel, and it was the only "custom" thing I ordered, so it was fine. There are other, better bagel places nearby. This place is fine if you're at a business nearby, playing laser tag next door, or other bagel...

For 4.5 years, I've been coming here for breakfast sandwiches, everyone's always nice and wonderful and the food is ALWAYS good. Today's service was different though, due to one woman. The Older Grey haired lady that had red long sleeves under the bagel tree shirt that couldn't smile is one of the nastiest people I've met. She was rude on the phone, rude in person, my order was not correct after I had left and gotten to my destination to eat. I don't appreciate that, and im sure most wouldnt. 20 bucks for 3 breakfast sandwiches, I don't bat an eye at that price with good service. But today it wasn't worth it to me. Wasn't even busy either. Always greet someone with a smile miss, you dont know how there day is going and that simple smile could...

So bagels are pretty good, made fresh on premises and for years the breakfast sandwiches have been good but in the recent months something has changed. They always seem disorganized and it doesn't matter if there are 5 or 20 people. Recently we have been getting mixed up orders; sometimes no egg, different cheese etc. Luckily we don't have any super picky eaters but it's still annoying. This morning there was a long wait and one guy got irate after waiting 20 minutes and he just left. There is no reason a breakfast sandwich should take that long. My order came up and when I got home my TEC was a TC. I think I will look elsewhere since this seems to be happening...