Excellent bagel egg sandwich and the coffee is just as good! They're usually is a line to the door,…read morebut it goes quickly! Hot, fresh and delicious.

The service is profoundly slow. The coffee is mediocre…read more The staff wear dirty clothes and are surprisingly slow. The furniture is uncomfortable, especially the very hard couch and booths that make you slide off them. The food orders are consistently wrong. Despite there being several staff milling about, they regularly seem unable to manage the simple task of keeping their toasters running. Or buy new toasters. It's a bagel place people. Get a friggn toaster!! It's amazing how much and how often this place routinely squanders and botches their opportunity to just do OK. DO NOT GO HERE. You'll wait too long for the wrong order and sit in uncomfortable seating. The one odd pro of this pace.... They open at 6 (whereas most others are open at 7). Still.... All this means... you can get that bad experience over with pretty early in your day.

These bagels are amazing! Hand made by seems like the owner…read more They are busy. Probably could use some help. So give the guy a break if you go there. They've only been opened for a month and still need to get a grip on there business! But man oh man these bagels are good!! So so good! We will definitely go back. If he can stay open this place will be a gold mine!

I've been waiting since Memorial Day to try this bagel place. I tried several times at their old…read morelocation but they were never open or out of bagels. Hopefully they are more successful in LAke George. So my husband went this morning. There were very few choices of flavors. I had a poppy seed bagel, which is never my first choice (what was my husband thinking?) and it was just OK. I'm from Long Island, so I know a good bagel. It didn't have the "chew" I expect from a good bagel and it was really quite sweet. I'll try them again and up date my thoughts. There are better bagels out there.

Have not been home in a while. Finally got back to a visit to Lox. Even after a long time away,…read moretheir courteous staff and owner, spoke up to welcome me back, like I had never left. I've been going to Lox for 30+ years, even back when they were on Quaker Road. Bagels are amazing, choice is immense, service impeccable, and staff is awesome. If you haven't had the chance to visit, please do! You are missing out on a true gem in the community.

I've passed by this place for YEARS and have no idea why. It's probably because I only indulge in a…read morebagel (or two) only once in a while. I'm always skeptical about bagels this far outside NYC, but these are VERY close to passing as downstate morsels. I had a sesame bagel with lox spread...a very generous amount of it. So I went back up to the counter to grab a toasted egg bagel ....can't have leftover lox spread go to waste! Great reviews on the cinnamon raisin bagel. Coffee was excellent. The folks behind the counter were pleasant and hustling. We picked up a cannoli and an eclair...there are lots of other great looking baked goods to choose from (I had a smidge of self control at least). The eclair was huge and delicious. So was the cannoli. I will absolutely go back when I need a bagel fix.

Woooooow this place was so popular! We visited three times while in Saratoga Springs and every time…read morethere was a line to order. The bagel was delicious and fully stuffed with cream cheese or whatever else you order in it! There Matcha was good, the coffee was good. Everything was amazing about this place. Plus, there's so much seating available and we are able to add our own sugar/milks. TLDR, great coffee or Matcha spot and great bagel spot

Disappointments happen. This is a precept of the human experience. Especially when it comes to the…read morepursuit of a good café. So it went, you see, in Saratoga Springs yesterday. Uncommon Grounds had all the makings of a fine sit n' sip: high ceilings, superfluous interior arches, mildly darkened aesthetic, tin ceiling tiles, and an abundance of screamin' local artistry dressing up the joint. Brothers and sisters... I was stoked about the possibility of churning out some real Aldi-grade literature at one of the chunky timber perches. I was ready for a slammin cup of joe and a sick-ish vibe. Alas, all I got from behind the counter was a jersey stuffed with caustic disdain and affected arrogance. It was impressive in that the tone, delivery, volume and words were all brilliantly matched in conveying unmistakable I-wish-you'd-get-the-flip-outta-my-space-clappery. I know the exact phrasing and such would go a long way here, but the whole dang affected setup I received from the other side of the counter would be hella exhausting to recount. And not worth my time. To be clear, my time really ain't worth all that much. Now I could go on to tell you about the rest of the experience, the quality of the bagels and the consistency of the schmear, and the tones you'll find playing throughout the house-roasted brews. But as a journeyman writer in the café world, I'm not gonna waste any more descriptors on the brat-infused tea steeping at the front of house. Why? Simply because cafés are more than the drink and grub. Cafés are as solid an offering of what culture Earth has to offer across its varied continents, countries, and street corners. They are something to engage with and experience directly. Like riding a scooter across Vietnam. Like a Moroccan food market. Like wiping volcanic ash off your hiking boots after a day's hike in Cinder Cone. If the human engagement of the place is reprehensible, then in IMHO the treats and steeps don't matter. Disappointments happen. That's for sure. But I'm only gonna spend two more sentences telling you what you probably already gathered about this place. It's slippin' baby. It's slippin'.

Good stop. We were hoping for some good coffee and a substantial enough food item to call it…read morebreakfast. Found both and a very pleasant place to enjoy them. Had the yogurt parfait and it was excellent - fresh made and fresh ingredients. Prefer a plain yogurt but it came lightly flavored with vanilla. Also not soupy for a well done. Good start for our day and a good stop for Kru Coffee.

We waited 12 minutes to get a plain bagel with cream, I guess they are more interested in serving…read morecoffee than a quick bagel to go with it.

Visited during our week vacation, the line was huge so figured it must be good! Very friendly…read morecashier, I got the smores coffee and it was good. Glad I tried it, would recommend going once!

Finally braved the line and tried Bear's Cup (usually we eat at Sunrise Cafe across the street)…read more Given that the lines are long I'd say you can find pretty comparable things across the street at Sunrise, like ice coffee and lattes, pastries and egg sandwiches. The coffee here is a bit fancier though, that's all. But the real difference is the bagels. Bear's Cup is serving up a thick and fluffy New York style bagel. I'm not sure if you can find that anywhere else in Bolton. When my kids want a bagel and CC for breakfast it definitely makes sense to come here over Sunrise!

I need one of these near me! Picture this....a Starbucks but the line actually moves, the coffee…read moretastes good and the bagels are made fresh. Stopped by for coffee and a quick breakfast sandwich on our way out of town. Parking lot was nearly full but it's shared w a smoothie place and other businesses. That being said, almost everyone was at UG and for good reason. The line was out the door when we got inside. I was discouraged and ready to angrily wait, but I was wrong! The line moved quickly and a staff were friendly for a busy morning. I had the summer blend hot and wife had an iced latte. The hot coffee was tasty. Low acidity, smooth and balanced. Only complaint was that it could have been just a click hotter for me. I don't necessarily want to burn my esophagus, but this was only lukewarm. The iced latte was delicious. We each had an egg sandwich on a bagel and they were terrific. Soft and chewy bagel with plenty of flavor. We took a couple cookies home from the case and Oh Em Geeeeee! Phenomenal! Now I regret not getting the bag of yesterday's bagels at the door. Even "day old" I bet these things are great!

Whenever I'm traveling for work, I'm always on the lookout for spots that have:…read more 1) Great coffee 2) Great savory breakfast bites So many coffee shops nail the first count but miss on the second (lots of pastry cases but not as much savory options). Uncommon Grounds nails it on both counts and is a great spot to get a little work done to boot. Stopped by this location when I was in the area for some coffee and breakfast. I'm usually in search of sugar free options as well as milk alternatives. Uncommon Grounds had a couple sugar free options (yay! caramel and vanilla) and a few different milk alternatives. I got a caramel latte made with almond milk and it was dreamy. For my breakfast, I got the Mediterranean breakfast sandwich on a salt bagel. It came with egg, spinach, avocado, tomato, and a bit of pesto. Delicious! The only tiny thing for me was the tomato made the sandwich kinda slippery and difficult to eat so the next time I ordered it (which was literally the next day), I got it with double the spinach and no tomato. The service was really lovely and the prices are reasonable. They're a popular spot and were pretty busy when I was in and even with that everyone was so kind and helpful. Get to it!

Located in a cute off just off the bridge from the Sagamore. Plenty of parking and part of the same…read moreshopping center as the little grocery store. They had apple fritters with icing on top, a jelly toast cookie (asked what that was and got it and it was sooo good), donuts, apple pies, muffins and then menu to order your sandwich, bagel.

Great baked goods, very friendly staff, mediocre coffee, cute little shop in a great locationread more

I was well aware that Pearl's sells out of their bagels very fast and it probably explains why I've…read morenever tried them. I'm not likely to be awake and out of the house with a thirty minute drive early enough to score the purchase of any. However, my wife had recently just heard about Pearl's, and we happened to be passing in the neighborhood thirty minutes before their 2 PM closing. Yes, they were still open, and no, they didn't have any bagel's left. In fact, that was the very first thing the clerk announced as we came through the door. "We are sold out of bagels and cannot make any sandwiches." As we looked at the small display case we saw four different pastries on a plate. My wife asked what they were and chose two. One was a strawberry marshmallow muffin and the other was some kind of brownie combination ($11 for the two). Once we returned home we were ready to share them. The muffin was super fresh, soft, and very enjoyable. But we didn't believe that there was a strong strawberry flavor and neither of us detected a marshmallow flavor. It didn't matter! This was a delicious muffin no matter what the flavor was supposed to be. The brownie "thing" might have been what their website menu calls a "Featured Daily Brownie." This looked like they used their challah dough to roll up around brownie mix like you would make a cinnamon roll with cinnamon/sugar instead of the brownie mix. Whatever, it was a total success. It was delicious with two different chewy textures and lots of flavor. Maybe some day my wife or I will have to be in Albany around 9 AM and get to try the bagels.

Bagel flavor great. Bagel texture not so great, stale and difficult to chew. They honestly tasted…read morelike day old bagels. Over priced and overrated. I do love the spread texture and flavor. Order: everything, plain, sesame, and garlic bagels. Scallion, plain, olive spread.