Bagel Hound Wellfleet — Restaurant in Wellfleet

Um, soooo, I’ll confess. When these folks were in Truro doing their bagels at the market, I had heard how delicious they were but never tried them. Today, I decided to pull over and treat us to a special something something on a Sunday. I went to the counter to order (a lady in front of me was hoping it was still a pizza joint and she got in her car and drove away disappointed to find it to be ‘just bagels and cream cheese.’ This may happen a bit due to some signage BUT, it also adds to the mystery of the bagel place and the reputation!). Anyway, I walked up and asked for a pumpernickel bagel with dill cucumber cream cheese and the young man said ‘oh no, the bagels here aren’t toasted and it’s a container of cream cheese.’ Wait, what?? I have to toast it myself annnnnd spread the cream cheese?? I made a comment about the silver lining in that we get moooore cream cheese that way AND if it’s toasted at home it’ll be fresher, more crispy, but In my head I was thinking, really? THIS is the great bagel place??? So, I ended up trying a few different bagels to take home and grabbed a couple cream cheeses (they had almost a dozen different flavors, standards and some unique offerings) and I drove home. Let’s cut to the chase here…the bagels AND the cream cheeses are made by magical sorcerers, obviously and must have several secret ingredients that us non-bagel sorcerers will never know (unicorn horn extract? Leprechaun tears? The pheromones of Medusa?). Despite the anguish of having to toast this thing myself AND spread the cream cheese, my husband and I agree - this was THE best bagel we have ever had. Don’t let the awkward sign out front, or lack of pizza or anything else really, stop you from giving this place a whirl. Oh, and the staff was polite, fun, courteous and helpful. Run, don’t walk, to the Bagel Hound.

** UPDATE 6/20/22 They DO now have bagels with cream cheese as a single serve type of option, available AND drum roll the signs have all be revamped. Any weird signage I initially mentioned in my review, is moot.

Go enjoy… the quality of the bagels and cream cheeses seem to...

Help! I was just robbed at the Bagel Hound.

$26 for two untoasted bagels and two pitiful iced coffees.

Well, I showed up at 11:15 on a Sunday before the official start of summer. no line! Score. I've heard this place is good, so I settled for what product they had remaining -- pumpernickel. I passed on the mountains of t-shirts because those don't make for good breakfast foods.

15 minutes later, my order arrived in a heap of wasteful packaging. Had to run back in to ask for a plastic knife though.

Lo and behold, that bagel tasted and had the exact texture of a dense pumpernickel dinner roll. Which is also to say New Yorkers would lose their minds for calling this a bagel.

I thought my bagel would arrive piping hot from the toaster -- surely 15 minutes and five teenagers is enough time and energy to toast a bagel. Sadly, my simple order could not be fulfilled. The picture shows what a sad sight this was indeed.

One bright side: the two schmears we tried were quite delicious. I really enjoyed the Cape Berry.

The experience was rounded out with an insulting coffee game. I should have been tipped off when I didn't see coffee even listed on the menu.

Only iced coffee? Not a problem for me. But what is a problem? When I pay $6 for a small iced coffee and there is no iced coffee. The nitro coffee dribbled out the alternative spigot -- seemingly without any nitrogen.

"This is worse than college cafeteria coffee," my boyfriend said upon receiving this special delivery. He's a Wellfleet washashore and assures me that Bagel Hound does have good bagels... If you can get one. Part of that recommendation was how they were freshly made on property -- but today I learned they are shipped in from the Harwich location.

I'll give Bagel Hound one more chance after the busy summer...

I thought I was going to love this place but, nope. Very busy and small space so we got in line and my plan was to get a staple of any bagel place. Bacon, egg and cheese. To my surprise, when I went to place my order the guy at the register said they're premade and they were out of them for the day. Why on earth would a bagel sandwich place have premade bacon egg and cheese sandwiches?! Disappointed, I had to quickly make another choice and got turkey on an everything bagel with avocado and jalapeno bacon cream cheese. Sounds good on paper but it was very bland, had barely any cream cheese and the bagel itself was very small. My GF got chicken salad with bacon and onion. She enjoyed the chicken salad but there wasn't much of it and the bagel was also small and to charge $3 for bacon it should be stuffed with bacon. It was not. It cost us around $22 for two bagel sandwiches, and to top it all off they forgot our order so we waited and waited until I noticed they were beyond our order number. I asked where our order was and they gave it to someone else. So we continued to wait and got our order eventually only to be...