Nova Lox to start the day with some dark roast coffee and water. Staff was helpful with today's-selection and cafe was calm and cool decor!! It did not disappoint. Thank you!! read more

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My Grub Hub delivery driver was way late which is not their fault, but the breakfast sandwich was cold and disgusting when delivered and my hash brown was not included in my order. Complete waste of money ordering from this place. read more

Friendly staff, efficient, food consistently good. Great place in town to meet up with friends- read more

Yesterday 5/28/2022 my Wife brought my youngest child in from the art festival to grab a bagel. It was my daughters birthday. She is 12 years old. My wife had one of our dogs with her, but wanted to escort our child in to make sure she was good to order, etc and to get a cup of water. We believe it was the manager who immediately got nasty and told my wife she can't have a dog in there and she needed to leave immediately, which my Wife did, as it was not her intention to vacillate in the establishment w the dog for obvious reasons. After my Wife left, my 12 year old was still inside the establishment when said manager (?) began sh!t talking my Wife loudly... loud enough that anyone (including my kid) could hear her. So just wanted to share the story and let the owner of this establishment know we won't ever patronize Einstein's in Barrington again (yes, we live in town). Great job! Keep up the excellent public relations! . Photo represents level of service delivered. read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Representation of level of service and kindness received at this establishment. - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

Bagles too thick and not soft. We paid for double bacon on three sandwiches and we were ripped off. Hardly a single portion. Interior is nasty looking. read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

Very dirty. Public area is closed. No seating. Bathroom is filthy. Chair outside was broken. Cigarette butts everywhere. Just take time to walk around and do periodic cleaning. read more

Removed tables and chairs, no accommodations for families! Staff did not heat the cinnamon roll despite being asked. Mobile app did not work to place order. Tasty food though. read more

The bagels here are delicious and there is plenty of space here to sit down and enjoy a nice lunch. I opted for the Tasty Turkey sandwich, which came with the choice of chips or a fruit cup in addition to a pickle. Food-wise, it totally hit the spot. The meal was delicious and made quickly. My only complaint is that I wish the bagels came toasted--I love a warm bagel! I'll ask for it to be toasted the next time around. As a heads up, this location typically closes around 3pm, so it's more breakfast/lunch fare. read more

Again, I am not happy with my experience. My younger sister and I had went into the store to get bagels for breakfast, and we were not asked if we wanted our bagel toasted and we had requested peanut butter on the side for one of the bagels and we had not received it. One of the employees, who I believe might be the manager is never pleasant to any of the customers, and she has been working in this location forever. I am very surprised that nobody working in the location has addressed it because a lot of customers are taking their buy somewhere else because of this employee. Hopefully someone within the location has this addressed. read more

We LOVE coming to this einsteins. Karen and the team are always SO kind and make our morning brighter! One of our favorites places to get a quick yummy breakfast in town! read more

I just stopped in here for a quick bite for breakfast. The everything bagel I ordered was just ok, but that hash brown side, OMG, is top three for sure in hash browns in Chicago. That little thing makes me wanna... "Shout" (recorded by The Isley Brothers) read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - An everything bagel, toasted w/butter. The star of the show: The hash brown side. Delicious! - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

There are very few options for walk-in coffee shops in the village of barrington 3 to be exact. This place, Starbucks and cook street coffee. That being said. The coffee at Starbucks is the best but the way they are handling Covid guideline is RIDICULOUS at best. Cook street coffee is sub-par but they have friendly and inviting atmosphere and staff. Now comes Einstein. There coffee is decent but from the moment you walk in you feel like you are NOT welcome. Almost like you are annoying them and putting them out while ordering their mediocre coffee and even less quality food. But beggars can't be choosers right now so I delt with the bad attitude and sub par food for the convenience. Truly an uninviting place. read more

Even though it's a chain, somehow it has a nice neighborhood or small town feel to it. The bagels are fresh and delicious here. Recommended by a friend, I tried the potato bagel. Seemed so sinful... two carbs packed into one yummy creation! And yes... it was so good oh my. Try it, close your eyes, and enjoy! read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

Second time at this location. The first time I ordered a bacon egg and cheese on an Asiago bagel and had another order for a sausage egg and cheese on a plain bagel. The did not execute the orders correctly. The wrong bagels were used on both sandwiches. Beyond that, the taste was okay. Typical breakfast sandwich. My second visit went way better. The accurately executed my order. I got a bacon egg and cheese on a spinach florentine bagel. It was delicious! read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Applewood Bacon and Cheddar Egg Sandwich on Spinach Florentine bagel - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

Absolutely the nicest workers, and the best bagels. A lot of places compromise quality for cost nowadays, but here they don't overcharge and everything is fresh and delicious. Seriously, if you don't believe me you need to put that to the test. Six cheese gourmet bagels and cheesy hash brown bagel farmhouses are my weakness and they are incredible, their coffee and fresh juices are so refreshing and tasty and did I mention they do healthy dog bagels? :D read more

Been in barrington 22 years. Every Single time we visit this location they are out of bagels. Only one or two of a few kinds on shelf the rest are empty. This day should be full. Then stipulations on half price day. Avoid this location like the plague. read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Rip off price on monday half off day. - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

As long as Karen M. Wasmer is the general manager of the Barrington store I strongly recommend no one to go to this location. She sells expired and under-portioned food. She has taken food out of the trash and tried to sell it back to customers. She will pour 5 day old expired milk into a carton that hasn't expired yet or just put that expired milk into your latte. She will change the date on everything and anything. She makes watered down coffee and makes the place hell for all her employees. Please start telling her to wear deodorant for the employees sake. Told her boss and HR about this and they did nothing. I even have pictures for proof. read more

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Support your local businesses!! First time here and definitely won't be my last! The customer service from each employee was wonderfyl. The positive energy from each was great to see this morning! What an awesome team!(: read more

Come here if you want a rude individual to help you and you want to be treated bad. Walked in and asked for gluten free was told curtly No No No , I was like umm ok and proceeded to order husbands food , was then checked out by a rude guy that was having a bad day. I even said wow hope you have a better day , they mumbled something and gave a look . I did tell the other young lady that person was rude and obnoxious and obviously doesn't like their job , my advice is there are plenty of jobs , get out of retail if you are that miserable and hate your job. I did contact corporate and let's see what their response is. Spend your money somewhere else , I know they are owned by Panera , but I rather eat there , they are always helpful and happy. read more

I regularly grab a cup of coffee here. The people are friendly and the coffee is good. Worth dropping by!

Nestled in downtown Barrington and I'm pleased it's located so close to my house. Bummer none of the Einstein Bros are open past 4:00. I always use coupons because they send them via email so frequently. Bonus! They even send a coupon for a free breakfast sandwich on your birthday (with the purchase of a drink). One of the first few times I went here, a female employee (not sure if she was the manager) felt bad that I wanted a pizza bagel that they no longer advertise, so she gave me a card for a free sandwich. Not sure why they took that delicious pizza bagel off the menu, but it's basically the cheese pizza bagel, but with garlic herb shmear instead of pizza sauce and they always substitute gladly if you simply ask. There is one girl who works behind the counter who never has a smile on her face and seems to have a bit of an attitude, but every other employee has been very friendly and helpful. Parking is scarce in the area, but there is a little lot across the street. Since this is more of a breakfast place, you can manage to get a spot in front of the store early in the morning, no problem. The sandwiches are pretty good, but never look like the photos. I guess that's anywhere you go. Also, I would definitely recommend signing up for email coupons because I'm not sure I would pay full price for anything there, except the bagels with shmear. I usually get the lox & cream cheese or pizza bagel. The thin bagel mushroom, swiss & asparagus sandwich is ok. I love the dutch apple bagel with strawberry or mango shmear or the spinach florentine bagel with garlic herb shmear. So good! Of course, the shmears (cream cheese flavors) are really good and what they are known for. I recommend trying a gourmet bagel with a flavorful shmear if you've never been to Einstein Bros. read more

Got a dozen bagels there this morning At least half of them were stale Be careful. Never saw that before read more

My daughter ordered a turkey melt with tomato. She received a turkey with lettuce bagel instead. She returned it and received the turkey melt without tomato. What really made it interesting is that the male employee with pony tail, had no idea how to prepare the sandwich and another employee had to help after about 10 minutes of the clueless one looking around for instructions. I ordered a lox sandwich on pumpernickel bagel and received a pumpernickel bagel with schmear only. I told the same clueless employee that delivered the sandwich to our table, that I ordered the lox sandwich. He smiled as if he knew he messed up and he came back with a sandwich poorly prepared with scant lox. There was no apology for the errors nor any acknowledgement from the manager, who was approached by my daughter to assist with this comedy of errors. This Barrington location used to be top notch years ago and has gone so far downhill we will not be back. Too many other choices in town like Starbucks and Jimmy Johns that treat the customer correctly. This place hires inept teenagers with no oversight from management. Disgraceful. read more

Bagels (and baked goods) are pretty good, BUT ... - Often our of the basics (no plain bagels at 9:00 on a Saturday or Sunday morning) - At least a 50% chance (not over exaggerating) they will get your order wrong read more

Look, it should not take 25 minutes to get a simple sesame bagel with cream cheese and lox. And when you wait for said bagel it should not arrive with barely any cream cheese or lox. And when you politely ask for more lox and cream cheese on your obviously skinny bagel, you should not be challenged that it's your problem by the staff. When I went here it looked like a father / son team was working the weekend shift. The son (slowly) made me an incredibly skinny bagel and when I politely asked for more when I opened it, the older guy acted like I was showing attitude or something. I wasn't, but I sure should've. I mean when you wait 25 minutes for a simple bagel with only 5 people in front of you and then the bagel barely deserves the name bagel, I deserve to be upset. I'll look elsewhere from now on. read more

Finally a decent Einstein Brothers Bagels. A few Einstein Brothers Bagels have given me terrible food the last few times & really skimped on the portions. I came in here & was surprised that the inside was pretty nice. The last few I have visited were filthy & a complete mess but this one was clean & well kept. I ordered a Nova Lox sandwich, a jalapeno cheddar bagel & an everything bagel. The staff was very friendly while taking my order & were chatty which is always a plus. The service was also very fast. While I was waiting for my food I sat down at a table & within four minutes my food was ready. By the time I got home my food was still nice & warm. On my bagel I ordered jalapeno cream cheese & it was actually spicy & had a kick to it. My family enjoyed their Nova Lox sandwich & their bagels as well. Overall the location is very convenient & easy to park. Inside of the restaurant the tables were clean & the service was fast. Most importantly the food here was better than most of the Einstein Brothers Bagels I have been to. I would definitely come here again. read more

Kind Service and the Blackberry Lemonade is FANTASTIC you must get it! Bagels taste like a regular old bagel nothing special there. Also the service time took awhile and I was the only one in there. read more

We went in after we filled out the receipt survey to receive the 3 bagels. It did not say ANYWHERE that it HAD to only be plain bagels. Not even in the receipt or the survey. The worker there, Susan, she did not even mention anything to us. She did say, oh I have to charge you for the cream cheese though. Which made sense. But after we got the three bagels, she asked us what we wanted for the three bagels. Well we told her we already chose it. And she said, it can only be plain. She didn't show a good attitude afterwards. How bizarre is that? She couldn't have mentioned it to us in the beginning? We left paying for all three of them. Which we didn't mind, we just wished there was clarification. I just think that in a professional manner, she could've either let us just pay for the cream cheese. She didn't need to twist her words in the end. I didn't think that was okay. Maybe, Einstein should clarify on the receipt next time. Never again. read more

Very disorganized and horrible service. Came in Sunday at 9:30, only one person in line ahead of me. Took 5 mins before they took my order and 15 mins to prepare it. Only one person making food and three others standing around. The person making food looked like she was stressed beyond belief because there were 4 orders on the board. I would never go here again. read more

I think staff should be required to wear hairnets. While waiting for my order, I watched the girl behind the counter arrange her hair, then proceed to make breakfast sandwiches without changing gloves. Not hygienic at all read more

Barrington store. Very poor quality. All the bagels taste the same. Hardly have any toppings. Can't tell the difference between an Asiago and a cinnamon riason. And the genius taking my order had to be told twice and still had questions on a small order. Your buying expensive cooked dough. Used to be good. Won't be back. read more

Not bad just wish they would do a better job cleaning the place. Had the red velvet bagel toasted a bit to sweet for me but I think some would like it. Please clean the bathrooms! read more

Einstein Bros. Bagels - Early morning stop - Bagels Near Me - Barrington, Illinois

I ran in here really quickly for a few bagels for my husband before my breakfast right next door. I don't know why, but I was expecting....more.... They had a lot of bagels available, but not a ton of variety. And it was really pricey--for 6 bagels and cream cheese, it was 9.45!! What in the world?! The guy helping me seemed stressed...no smiles, no thanks, no manners at all, really. The one I ate was good (cinnamon sugar) but I am not sure I would go back again unless I was already in the area. read more

Like Einstein bagels. This is a busy shop on a busy street, limited street parking, and some outdoor tables. Delicious coffee and friendly service. read more

Usually love einsteins,but this location is poorly managed. Lettuce was brown, avocados on my sandwich were frozen and brown, egg shells in my eggs. All the employees are high school kids who have no idea what they are doing. read more

I always go there in the morning for the everything bagel and veggie cream cheese. Its the best. The employees are always smiling and cheerful. Its always busy in there and I never mind a wait. Because the extra yummy bagels. The manager there, she always remembers me and gets my bagel for me. I always leave full and happy. Thank you. read more

Service slow change chicken on the southern sandwich was cold and like rubber. Staff disorganized, dining room dirty. I will not be back.

Every time we eat here our food is consistently good and the service is great. The Tasty Turkey on a thin Everything bagel was over flowing with turkey and veggies, paired with a bag of jalapeño chips really hit the spot. Our sandwiches were made before we hit the end of the counter. Delicious! read more

I hate having to deal with all the mistakes they make with my order. It's especially frustrating when it's all written out in front of them on the screen. On the positive side, the employees are very friendly and the food is mostly OK. I guess that's what's supposed to pass for good these days... so I suppose they're good enough. They could be great but don't seem to want to make the effort. I'd give it a B- So against my better judgment I back again. And they screwed up my order yet again they entered it correctly in the machine I actually read it on their screen 10 minutes later when my food finally came it was messed up. I'm done with them! read more

It's your usual bagel shop. Nothing really great to mention about. The bagels are fresh and the store crew is courteous and friendly. Parking is on the street and sometimes it's hard to find a spot. Do join their rewards program and you'll keep receiving offers for the weekends on Monday where they have 13 bagels for $7 or $12 with two shmear tubs. read more