The Bagel Cafe

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MnMs

Apparently Im a glutton for punishment. All your obvious problems aside you do have the best bagels in Vegas. Of course that is only true if you get the bagels you ordered. Stopped in for a dozen after lunch. Yes I understand its Sunday but coming from NY I still cant believe that if a place runs out of certain flavors they dont make more. Surprisingly you had pumpernickel. Too bad you gave me a shortchanged dozen everything bagels (I ordered 2). Not surprised. I should know by now that the guys behind the counter cant count. Even if you tell them how many of each bagel. Always short 1 or 3. So now I really & truly am done with you. No more messed up orders. No more low quality food. No more e-coli from your undercooked frozen burger patties. No more crappy service. No more surly attitudes from counter guys. No more pathetic excuses for a manager. I guess Ill have bagels & pastrami again next visit to NY. *Previous Review Ive been going to Bagel Cafe for 18 years since moving to Vegas from NY. We dont have many choices for Jewish deli here and this place has outlasted any and all competition that have opened. On average we would eat Bagel Cafe once a week until about 10 years ago. From then until last year I was taking the kids once a month & doing take-out once a month. Once in a blue moon they might have an off day. Silly things like wilted lettuce or fries that werent crispy. The bagels and bialys were always perfect. One time they served me an obviously microwaved knish. Hot and mushy on the outside and frozen in the middle. Recently consistency has become a huge problem. One day the food is perfect and the next not so much. Last year while dining in the restaurant my son and I both ordered cheeseburgers, well done. Mine was raw in the center. I put everything on my burger, including the fries so I didnt notice until after I bit, chewed and swallowed & thought to myself that didnt taste right. I looked and I kid you not it was raw in the center. Fortunately my sons burger was well done. I had a lovely 2 week bout with e-coli & didnt eat there for almost a year. I also didnt eat a cheeseburger again for almost a year. I didnt hold them 100% responsible as I could have cut my burger in half to check that it was cooked through. Because everyone does that. Right? But seriously though, I cook every day. Sometimes a burger or steak isnt as done as the other ones. It happens. But it isnt rocket science to push on a steak or burger to check if its done. There is a big difference in feel between raw and well done. One day the kids were just dying for Bagel Cafe so I took them. I ordered a cobb salad, one kid got a bagel and the other of course ordered a cheeseburger, well done. When he saw my salad he decided that we would share. Fortunately this time I cut the burger in half and it was raw. Now this indicates to me that the chefs dont know what they are doing or the burgers are frozen patties. The manager removed the burger from my bill. Today we ordered take-out. Very simple order. 1 pastrami & 2 NY knishes. Simplest thing for a deli, well in NY at least. Also I should note that I was asked if I wanted cheese, lettuce, tomato and onion on that. Drove home with the moon roof open & the hot Vegas sun on the bag. Funny thing, the sandwich was cold & the knishes were ice cold. Okay, fine. Threw the knishes in the oven. Attacked the sandwich. Now I know its pastrami and its fatty but it should be meat with fat on it. About 1/3 of the sandwich was sliced fat with meat on it. Couldnt even chew it. So apparently now they do not know how to cut the pastrami. The icing on the cake: They shortchanged me on my dozen bagels. By two. Seriously, now you guys cant count?!? Im just done. Good bye Bagel Cafe. If I want deli Ill take a flight back home and go to Katz. It would be worth the time and money for a decent sandwich and a knish that hasnt been nuked.

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Gary Kane

Ask a real JEW from Jersey what he thinks, not a Chinee or Mexicano....I am from Philly and New Jersey and was on vacation in Las Vegas. I visited the Bagel Cafe and got the white fish salad on a bagel, mazo ball soup, a bagel with salmon spread cream creese, and a hummin tosh and black and white cookie. The white fish salad was not white and looked just like the tuna salad. It tasted dry and not much of a smoked taste. Be sure to mix in mayo because you will need it. The mazo balls(kanadelas)were very big, dry, and hard. Very difference than what I am used too. The black and white cookie and hummin tosh were huge and tasted fresh and great. Also, the bagels were great and they had a huge assortment of homemade cream cheese spreads for the bagels. It is ironic that I seen a bunch of Arabs working in a jewish deli and I bet the owners are muslims from Lebanon so dont expect anything to be kosher. I asked for a Kosher dill pickel and the muslim looked at me confused. It is like a Greek trying to run a pizza shop. You know the deal. I reccomend that you tip the arabs at least $1.00 in thier tip jar prior to placing the order. Make sure the guys sees you tip him too. It might help speed things up a little and make the expecience more pleasant. So as soon as the guy asks if he can help you, make it rain with a buck or two in the big jar right smack in the middle of the deli counter. What that said, they have some lebonese and various other great lookong desserts. I did not even see a kosher sign anywhere. If you like your white fish salad to be dry and look like tuna than run to this place and enjoy. They had the big whole smoked white fishes there too. However, I would recommend this place for the bagels and cream cheese only. I did not try the deli sandwiches. They are not going to fool a Jersey Jew.

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Katie Hamilton-Meier

It was my friend Ms. Ws last morning in town and she specifically requested we come here. On a Sunday around 8:30a we easily found two tables to push together for our party of five adults and one baby in a stroller. As far as entrees go, I think my hubby made a great choice with the pastrami sandwich. That meat was so flavorful and piled high! I got a corned Beef and Cheddar omelette with potatoes and an everything bagel. The corned Beef was nothing compared to that pastrami and the omelette wasnt seasoned at all. But the potatoes were good and that bagel was perfect! Honestly, next time I would vote to create my own plate - everything bagel covered in cream cheese, butter and piled high with pastrami. I also had to try some sweets. I have to say that while the cannoli wasnt for me (the shell was very thick, crunchy and dry) I adored their gluten free chocolate chip cookie. I didnt buy it because of being gluten free, I bought it because it looked good. You see, Im not a fan of shortbread-type cookies, so these looked more up my alley. And boy were they perfect - all the chewy goodness you could want! All in all, we would definitely return!