Overall solid bagel, but won't be comparable to a NYC bagel if that's what you're expecting Pretty sure I'm reviewing the proper place, will add a photo which suggests they updated their signage bit Food 3/5: Got a plain bagel with cream cheese and lox, the price for this bagel was fantastic coming in around £4 but wasn't overly spectacular to what I've had in NYC each time I've went Quick queue for service and some counter space to eat. Great location right on brick lane read more

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Really good salt beef, REAL MUSTARD and crunchy gherkins on a great bagel, lovely. All the Americans on here knocking it and saying it's not like NY bagels, hey this place has been making beigels since 1855, maybe this is how they're really supposed to taste?? read more

Edit : my mistake. I accidentally mixed up both beigel stops in my reviews ; beigel shop is the clear winner here. I ordered the salted beef bagel. Unlike the other shop, this actually had a pleasant taste and worth the price. The beef was hot, and cooked fresh this time around. Their pistachio cannoli id completely skip. The inner filling was dry, and the outer shell was soft instead of crunchy hard. Overall 3.5/5 round up. read more

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Growing up in the New York area, I've had plenty of top tier bagels (or shall I say beigels) in my day. I was actually really impressed with the bagels here. It seems this style of bagel has a bit of a sweet/sourdough type of flavor, which I really enjoyed! The bagels were also super cheap, but make sure to bring some cash if you're not planning on grabbing too many. They had plenty of toppings available, but I just stuck with a plain bagel. This is your classic bagel shop, very casual vibes. There wasn't a ton of seating, so I'd advise taking your bagels to go. You're in and out of there pretty quickly, so don't worry if there's a line. I'd recommend, especially if you haven't tried bagels like these before. Check out the other bagel shop next door too! read more

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Not another NY/NJ bagel snob coming through the streets of London! In all seriousness, pretty standard bagel sandwiches which turn out to be open pretty late, and a bit cheaper later in the day. Who would've thought you could order lox & cream cheese right before happy hour down the block? Brick Lane reminds me St. Marks Place in Manhattan, with a bit more tradition and slightly more insane. read more

my first time trying a salted beef beigel! i got it with no pickles. the sandwich isn't bad- the meat is salty, tender and flavorful and i like how the mustard is super potent and burns like wasabi. the only thing that would've elevated the experience is if the beigel was warm/toasted. read more

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Great unique British Bagels or should I say "Beigel" a list try and they're 24/7. The line can be long but it moves fast. Make sure you have a non AMEX card if you're paying with a card. read more

If you are in London and you Jones for an actual bagel (beigel!), this is the place. I had the bagel with salt beef, their mustard, and a big ol kosher dill pickle slice, and it was one of the top food items I ate in London. Just so good. Plus it's in a really cool and eclectic part of London. read more

Close at 11p. Not as 12:30p as advertised! Not sure if Yelp Has the wrong time but don't fall for it! read more

Definetely the best and cheapest bagels of London. I took a salmon creamcheese one with the rainbow bread. What I like there, it's you can create all your bagel from the bread to the fillings and it stills cheap ! The only bad point it's they don't toast the bread. However, I recommend this place if you are looking for a cheap food in Shoreditch read more

I was ATTACKED physically in this shop. I walked in on a video phone call to show my friend what to order, and a man (pretending to be) on crutches yells: "Why are you filming?" and shoves me. I left to avoid this attacker, but he followed me out to the street, yelling. (The prop crutches did not slow his pursuit). I turned the camera on his rant. I yelled LOUDLY "Help! Help!" until he withdrew. Americans, do as you like, but BE AWARE: these 24 hour "beigel" shops draw many evidently homeless beggars hoping to capitalize on the shop fame, and foot traffic. I don't know if the owner is unwilling, or unable, to correct this issue, but you have been warned. Should the owner of the shop wish to address this incident I will amend this review. read more

Two bagel shops on Brick Lane right next to each other, I picked the one with the shorter line. Bagels aren't as good as NY but were decent. The meat was thick and fatty, about as good as from a NYC or Montréal Jewish deli. Go for the sandwich, not necessarily the bagel. read more

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Two words: Salt beef After touring the town all night, my friend suggested that we try a snack that is popular to Brits at any time of the day. The salt beef bagel. First of all, being from New York, we are used to seeing restaurants and delis open 24/7, but that's not as much of a luxury in London. We were already full from dinner, but my friend URGED us to carve a slight appetite for this hit and I assure you, it was the best thing we could've done! I can't recall how much a salt beef bagel costs (£5 at the most), but you get your money's worth. Its a toasted bagel or bun that is stacked and I mean S T A C K E D with salt beef and topped with thin slices of pickles and some mustard. Your typical, but not so typical, deli sandwich. Salt beef tastes like roast beef and pastrami had a baby, named it salt beef, and left it in London. It is so tender, juicy, and, staying true to the name, salty. I do not like salt and eating bread with beef, but damn...forget that, I'll eat salt beef whenever! My friend and I loved it so much that we made it a mission to grab some salt beef bagels for the flight home. Yes, we did that. Yes, we were kind of late to the airport. No, we did not miss our flight! If you are in London and seeking hometown eats that you won't know unless you've lived there, certainly check out the Beigel Shop. It actually is right next to the Beigel Cafe/Kitchen and they compete to see who has the better salt beef. Both are open 24 hours so you're not at a loss. The Beigel Shop offers other items as well, but with the salt beef craze I didn't really order anything else, hence the 4 star rating. 5 STARS FOR SALT BEEF! I miss London now... read more

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I once found a fiver on the way home down Brick Lane and could think of nothing I'd rather spend it on than a copious amount of bagels from the Brick Lane Beigel Shop; a 24-hour bagel extravaganza for those who like their bread both boiled and baked. A local institution, the Brick Lane Beigel Shop, just a couple of doors down from its nemesis, the similarly named Brick Lane Beigal Bake sells plain bagels for around 20p while excelling in serving rather delectable roast beef bagels. It doesn't get much better than this! read more

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We stopped here on the Yelp London Street Art Walk. I'm not a big fan of bagels - tend to find them a bit chewy - but they were being handed out, so I took a bit piece to see what these famous rainbow bagels were all about. They were so good, I promptly packed a few to carry home. I chose the salt beef stuffed bagels and the beef was really soft and melt in mouth, even though we only ate them over 12 hours after they were packed. The bagels, were nice and soft with just the right amount of chewiness. We tried the samosas (since we were in Brick Lane) The chicken wasn't bad, but the lamb had too much onion in it to bulk it up rather than flavour it. The coffee is just instant coffee and not something I would recommend, but I'd definitely go back for the bagels read more

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This is the place of the first ever all-around-the-world rainbow bagel! You own a bagel shop in Brick Lane, you do properly your job delivering tasty bagels but a bagel shop just two shops away from you is taking all of the customers...What should you do? Think clever to beat competition; invent the colorful bagel! As great as it looks, the same great it tastes. Try in on salty beef and of course you will love it. But be aware; this is not to get addicted-adding artificial colors to food is never a good thing.... read more

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The buns are soft, the the meat is juicy, the mustard is hot and the gherkins are tangy. T'was a bagel to end all bagels. Line was long, service was fast, price was cheap and the buns kept on coming. read more

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SO GOOD. I don't know why it's spelled beigel, but I'm happy to shut up and just let them take my money. The £3.70 corned beef beigel is the priciest, but lord that's a lot of beef packed in with a smear of mustard and double gherkin joy. I also tried a £1.60 salmon (lox) and salted herring bagel, which was fishily delicious. Big selection of other toppings and there's a whole dessert section of baked goods, so I'll definitely be back! read more

Everyone agrees that there's nothing better than a bagel from Brick Lane, available around the clock. And you don't have just one 24/7 beigel bakery but two, almost next door to each other. I have to admit that I have always favoured Beigel Bake, can't even explain why, just joined the queues and liked what I tasted. I would pop into Beigel Shop when the other sold out (it happens!), but now there are Rainbow Beigels, a mega trump card for Beigel Shop!! Fingers crossed, this will secure business and friendly competition for another 100 years (the bakery closed down for a while in 2014 - one bagel bakery on Brick Lane is not enough!). How exciting to have a multi-coloured bagel, and it's more than just a gimmick. Slightly sweeter than the plain original, they work best with sweet fillings - the woman behind the counter recommended Nutella, and she was right: looked ugly, tasted divine! read more

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Long queue, fast service! Small bagel, big taste! Great price! I would definitely come back, it's also open 24hrs read more

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Apparently this is first and best Beigel shop. I can't vouch for it being the first but it's definitely one of the best. If you a judge an eating establishment on the queue out the door then this might even be the best food establishment in London. We waited about 15 minutes for our ham baps but it was well worth the wait. It was rich, flavoursome and packed full of meat. This is a proper old school eatery selling delightful savoury goods as well as some tempting sweet treats. Great breakfast. If you want my advice get there early before the queue gets too big. read more

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SOOO GOOD!! I'm still dreaming about the salt beef bagel with mustard and pickles. The meat is so tender and delicious. I DIE. They also have a chive cream cheese bagel that is tasty. read more

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Sausage roll - appalling. banana bread - drier than the sahara. almond croissant - taste was fine but the exterior was a disgrace. coconut cake - tastes like school dinner. conclusions: would never go back here, this place is a disgrace. we had to wait 30 mins for this shambolic meal. I was perplexed that every time I tasted a new item that it was worse than the last. Everything was FLAVOURLESS!!! read more

At first I went into that other bagel shop. There was no one else there, I stood there a couple minutes, had some employees look at me and then away, so I left. Great service. Not. As soon as I walked in here I was greeted by a very nice guy. I ordered the salt beef bagel, a lamb samosa, and a bread pudding. The salt beef bagel was delicious. I am from New York and I could eat this again and again. I just wish it were bigger. The lamb samosa was pretty good but dry. The bread pudding, for only 60p was a great value and very good. It tasted very fresh and was a big piece for the price. Cash only. read more

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The main difference between this shop and its neighbour and rival is that Beigel Shop has a larger variety of bagels and fillings. I popped in here over the weekend for a crispy bacon on onion bagel during a drinking session, and it was deliciously wonderful, all for just £1.85, the same price it would have been for a plain bagel. If you're in Brick Lane and want a classic - cream cheese and salmon on a plain bagel or salt beef on a plain bagel - then Beigel Bake's the one to go to. If, on the hand, you're craving for something other than a standard, then this is the place to go to. read more

Well I've got to give this shop five stars (whereas the other one would amass 4.5) based on the fact that their cream cheese and smoked salmon beigel is absolutely scoff-tastic and I have calculated the precise time it takes me to swallow one whole (8.2 seconds) but I challenge any big mouth to beat that. You can choose from from both plain and filled (egg, cream cheese, herring, mountains of salt beef), with a selection of tasty traditional breads cooked on the premises and magnificently moreish cakes (gimme that muffin) that soak up impending hangovers and put the blinkers on come downs for Shoreditch's jilted generation. These Jewish beigels are smaller than their tasteless, pre-packaged sisters in fridge freezers nationwide, having a rich brown on the top and with a slightly sweet cream coloured dough inside that is more chewy than Kingsmill. Verdict --- there is no better place to invest small change and crumpled notes anywhere in E1. Oy vey. Quick history lesson to follow: In the late 19th century, the streets around Brick Lane were dramatically transformed by an influx of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. New synagogues, kosher butchers and restaurants opened, and a rich Yiddish culture emerged, with its own newspapers and theatres. read more

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I had the regular saltbeef on a plain bagel...meh something to try, it taste like a meaty pretzel. The cheesecake is really good. Late night bite I've never had it in the day. The location is really chill people just kinda stand eat and chat. read more

There are two Beigel shop in the same street and really closed of each other but I prefer this one. They've got a lot of different food to put in their beigels. If your combination sounds strange like prawns and cheese they will make it. (this doesn't mean that I chose this one) Tuna is a must but for me the simply cheese and if you are lucky with a hot beigel Yummy! Nothing can be compared to it. If you don't want beigels, no worries there are also croissants, soups, cakes and some other pastries. If you are having fun in Brick Lane area and the party seems to finish late, you can have beigels for breakfast or dinner as it opens till late. read more

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The shop is small and has some queue, but it moves quickly as the workers do their job fast. I had the rainbow bagel with cream cheese and salt beef beigel. I didn't care much for the cream cheese personally, but the salt beef was incredible. It's warm and melts in your mouth with the yummy salty and meaty taste, surrounded by a soft pillow of bread. I'm already craving another one read more

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Big round love (with a little hole in the middle) for Beigal Shop. Yes it may not have been a traditional choice, but my chicken (big chunks of roast chicken, not that waffer thin crap), mayo and cheese bagel rocked my socks off. My chocolate muffin was pretty awsome too. (Lost star is the result of a somewhat rubbish marble cake, btw). And the tiny price of £6.40 for two bagels, two cakes and a coffee was excellent too. Why the Beigal Shop and not Beigal Bake next door you ask? So did I. And the answer from the beautiful boyface who took me there is that it sells tuna mayo bagels here and the other place doesn't. That worked for me, so take his advice, follow the tuna mayo brick road and get your carbs on. read more

I've had two very different experiences with Beigel Shop -- so we're going to come in right around 3-stars. Experience 1: Delivery through dinein.co.uk = win. Bagels to my door. At 9pm. Brilliant. £15 minimum, but I loaded up on some loaves of bread, bagels with cream cheese, bagels with other sandwich toppings, etc. I ate them for a good few days. I like to live like a bachelor. I was very happy. 5 stars. Experience 2: A blustery, rainy Sunday morning. We need to take the dog for a walk and figure we'll head to Brick Lane for some bagels and then make our way to a park. Beigel Bake que is out the door, Beigel Shop (2 doors down) much more manageable. Due to rain, we opt for the shorter que. Mistake. Gone are the bagels of my dreams that were delivered to my door. Instead I get a flat, smushed bagel with extremely "grainy" cream cheese that tastes "off" and I throw away half. Honestly, I tried to give some to the dog and she didn't even want it. The interior of this place leaves quite a bit to be desired as well. I prefer the ignorance of delivery, I guess. 1-2 stars, not impressed. So there we have it. I doubt I'll be back after that depressing bagel. I'll brave the que and the gruffness a few doors down next time for a quality piece 'o dough with some smooth cream cheese. Word. read more

This place was by far my favorite place to eat in London over my past few trips across the pond. The meat was so tender and juicy like Caitlyn Jenner's ass. Beigel Shop really has the greatest salt beef bagel sandwiches of all-time! Part of me wanted to replicate this restaurant and bring it to California, while the rest of me wanted to have Caitlyn Jenner surgery and turn my salt beef into a bagel. read more

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In the interests of science and lunch a friend and I went here about half an hour ago, ate a salt beef beigel / bagel / beagle and then went straight into Beigel Bake a couple of doors down and had another salt beef beigel / beigelle / baggle. The results of my findings: I just put on 2lbs, my friend looked like an eel that had swallowed a football. Food:- Beigel Shop: £2.90 a generous portion of tasty salt beef, the beigel was ever so slightly sweet and ever so slightly over cooked, almost crunchy, the mustard pleasant but not nose tingly. Beigel Bake: £3.30 at least twice as much salt beef, so much so that the beigel itself was open at about 60 degrees. The beef itself was slightly saltier and slightly beefier. The beigel was cooked perfectly and not as sweet., which I prefer. The mustard was more generously applied and had that lemon juice up the nose feel that I love. Ambience:- None in either place. Shop looks slightly more like a commercial bakery, Bake looks slightly more like a retail place. Conclusion: If you can stretch the extra 40p, I'd go Beigel Bake (the place with the white sign two doors along ). read more

THIS PLACE IS DANGEROUS! Must avoid at all times! Why? It is best value for money Fillings are superb Selection of yummy cakes BEST VALUE FOR MONEY SO SPOILT FOR CHOICE! I was there the other week and the thought of a salmon and cheese bagel is making my mouth water! Next time I go there and order my 2 x salmon & cheese bagels, chocolate eclair, samosa and tea.... I hope all the weight I gain will go straight to the "certain areas" that needs filling (can I get a Jennifer Lopez and Shakira to go please?). read more

I have worked in the catering business for many years and I'm fully aware of the the food and hygiene standards that should be put in place at this Beigel shop....it's a disgusting place to eat your bagels. The staff don't wash their hands, so when you order your food they handle money with bare hands NOT wearing gloves and then handle your food. Look around the shop generally dirty place. NO hygiene rating.......mmmmm! Enter with caution read more

While the Beigel Shop always seems to come in second place to its next door competitor, they still make a fierce beigel that rivals its competitors in almost every way. So I totally went to two beigel places in one day, less than a block away from each other. Beigel Shop is a modest, hole-in-the-wall that serves some of the cheapest and best food in all of London. Walking inside the small space you are immediately flanked on your left by a whole glass case of various desserts - try to resist your sugar tooth and order a hot salt pork beigel sandwich instead. The salt pork is a delicious red color, melts in your mouth, and isn't nearly as salty as the name would suggest. The beigel is also so much better than regular American bagels (sorry New York) - light, chewy, and sweet. But between Beigel Shop and Beigel Bake, which offers the better product? I think it's too close to call for most people, but if I had to pick one I think Beigel Bake takes home the crown, if only because I thought their beigel was a little sweeter. However, they're both getting five stars in my book, and Beigel Shop can go toe-to-toe with its rival and offers a much better selection of various desserts. So, in sum, go to the one with the shortest line, then while eating walk and wait in the longer line because you're going to want more than one. read more

One thing from the US I've really missed is freshly baked bagels. Having worked at Panera Bread Company for almost 2 years, and loving the fresh bagels in the various flavours with the yummy cream cheese varieties to go along with them, I've felt the loss. Cue the relief music as I've found a reasonable London substitute. It might not have the extensive flavour varieties I'm used to, but damn they are good. Freshly made all day long and topped with plain cream cheese, these little beauties are reason enough to visit Brick Lane. read more

Totally legit challah. I can't help but think Beigel Bake is better, though. This is for no reason in particular, I assure you. With two nearly identical old-school bakeries selling nearly identical things within two shopfronts of each other, you've just gotta pick one or the other and pledge your unwavering custom to it. I picked Beigel Bake. For the record, I didn't buy the aforementioned challah, so my conscience is clear. Also, bacon goes surprisingly well between two buttered slices of this delicious, Jewish loaf. Go figure. read more

Baaaggeeelsss! Bagels bagels bagels. I was on a late night drive with my sister and a few others when we got a little peckish. My sister and fellow yelper (Chelle R) recommended this place as it's open 24/7. Yes I know what you're thinking because I was thinking it too... "OMG Bagels available at my dire need 24 hours of the day, 7 days a week??! Nooo waaay!" It's located at the far end of Brick lane, which is ideally placed as you can get to re-energize yourself after rummaging through all the vintage shops along the road on a Sunday afternoon. Anyway, on the night I went with my sis and mates, we managed to find parking as it was late. During the day, it may be a bit more difficult. I was surprised to find the beigel shop busy so late at night. Nevertheless, I waited patiently in line and ordered a deliciously dirty salt beef bagel. Just what my belly needed for a late night snack! I was satisfied indeed. read more

Salt beef competition winner in London according to our small Swedish taste panel! However by the smallest margin possible. If you into the classical old school mom and pop beigel stores and culture this is one of the main two contenders to visit in East London. It is cheap, tasty and with great opening hours. Chewy, richly filled and delish beigels to try and die for were, aside the salt beef, the plain cream cheese and the salmon according to us. But I also enjoyed the sweet bakes such as the chocolate éclair and brownie. read more