Best bagels in southern Brooklyn. Looks like a hole in the wall and the line can get long on a weekend morning but well worth it.

Best bagels in this side of town! Made fresh everyday and always a great bite. Tuna salad is highly recommended as is the egg salad. Great foot long party heros too. read more

The workers here are so friendly and patient! They always make my sandwich right and have their bagels on a bright, clean display! I have never experienced a stale bagel, they are always fresh! Also love how you can see them being made behind the register, makes the whole place smell amazing! read more

Totally old school bagel place where you can watch them boil then bake the bagels! I have been there twice while delivering free books to the mini library that is outside the damaged and currently closed Gerritsen Beach branch of the Brooklyn Library and I would consider making a special trip over to get a dozen of their pumpernickel everything bagels and a tub of lox spread. The staff is really friendly and when I get a bagel with cream cheese, it's a generous schmear. Love! read more

Their bagels are good but the price of a plain bagel recently went up by 40 cents. I used to pay ninety cents for a bagel and just recently they increase the price. Increasing the price is understandable but why not by ten cents? 40 cents is a lot. I wont be stopping by there as often as I use to. read more

Good, cheap bagels. Choose between a varity of bagels from sesame, garlic, to everything bagel. Chose between lox, vegetable, scallion, and plain cream cheese. They are very generous with the cream cheese. read more

Great bagels Great atmosphere. Very clean. Got to try the tuna and tomato on a whole wheat everything bagel.

This place is extremely understaffed, especially on the weekends. Expect to spend at least 10-20 minutes on line. The bagels are good but hardly worth the wait. read more

Top notch! Delicious and affordable. They do not deliver, but if you're in the neighbourhood the bagels are always made fresh.

It reopened under new management. The service is often lacking and the bagels and baked goods are often burned but when they do get it right it is great. read more

This place brings much joy to me. They have a clean well kept on main road location that offers the essentials in an inviting way. Their bagels are spot on with a deli selection to compliment the business in a magical way. read more

Shocked by some of these rave reviews! I have gone into this place more than once and they have had NO plain or everything bagels. How can a bagel store NOT have bagels? I understand the popularity because it's a neighborhood business but to have a line out the door is ridiculous. Also, your order will be incorrect 99% of the time. I will get a bagel there occasionally because of convenience but the bagels are subpar at best. read more

I come out to Gerritsen Beach pretty often for work, and almost always stop at Gerritsen Bagels for a sandwich. The guys who work there are so nice, and the bagels are fresh and cheap. Definitely worth a stop. read more

I read a few comments on this store's Facebook page about how some patrons liked the bagels better than "that other Rainbow bagel shop" so I had to try them. In truth, since I live in Bergen Beach, all I was asking for from the shop in Gerritsen were that they be as good or at least "almost as good," so I could save the trip down to Williamsburg whenever I had a jones for a bagel that looked like it should be named "The Jerry Garcia" and sold in the parking lot of Grateful Dead shows. So skeptical or not, I wanted to give this place a try, and my standard, to be perfectly frank, was "Just be at least almost as good and you will have the virtue of saving me a long trek down to the Williamsburg Bridge on bicycle or car." Oddly enough the 18+ mile round trip through Brooklyn traffic on my bicycle is actually quicker than by car, but that is very much beside the point lol. Anyway, sorry for the buildup. Now to the actual review! The short and sweet of it is that this place didn't just meet my expectations (okay, my skeptical hope would be more accurate) it blew them to kingdom come. It so far exceeded ANYTHING I was expecting that I am so impressed I can't even tell you (even though clearly I am, right?) Here is the nitty-gritty: 1. The flavor is fantastic, but then so is the other shop, so that is a dead heat. 2. However, the consistency of the bagels in Gerritsen is really where this bagel shines! There is simply not even a comparison between the two bagels on this count. I have been eating Brooklyn bagels my whole life, and I know what these bagels are supposed to be and know when they fall short. Before eating the bagels in Gerritsen, I was actually prepared to "give the other shop a pass" on the consistency because, since my undergraduate major was chemistry, I am well aware that adding a sh*t-ton of dyes and other flavors into a batter can irrevocably (and not usually favorably) alter the consistency of the final, baked product. So my assumption before today was that the "Play-dough" consistency of the other bagels was an unavoidable consequence of all the pretty colors. Clearly I was very wrong. I have to put my pompous, Brooklyn-snob hat on for a second and say this: If you have NOT had a fresh bagel in Brooklyn, hand rolled, made with NYC water from the reservoir, and cooked to perfection then what I am going to say will sound like another language or maybe even a little weird: A classic Brooklyn bagel has a sort of "hard, chewy" crunch to its crust and is doughy, moist, and less chewy on the meaty or inside part. If this sounds disgusting to you, I understand, but it isn't. It's magic, I can assure you. Anyone who has lived in Brooklyn for more than thirty seconds knows exactly what I am talking about. 3. The Rainbow bagels at the other place are $4.00 a piece, plain, with nothing on them. They are HALF that price here! 4. Service - This is tough to call, because the service in both places are excellent. Although you should be aware that while you will have a normal wait for a "busy bagel shop" if you go to Gerritsen Bagels on peak hours, you will NOT be waiting over an hour like you will in the other place. I went on an off peak time to Gerritsen and I was in and out in less than five minutes! I waited on line for AN HOUR before even giving my order in Williamsburg. 5. Aesthetics: Okay, this is the one area that I would say the other shop wins. The pure "visual beauty" of the rainbow and other colored bagels is absolutely stunning in "The Bagel Shop." It doesn't blow the doors off of Gerritsen's colored bagels, but they are prettier. Look, let me be clear: if I was a 16 year old, bulimic, starved-for-attention Instagram junkie, and tired of posting scantily clad selfies, but still on a jihad for "likes" and wanted to post shots of pretty rainbow bagels, I would probably want to snap pictures of the ones in Williamsburg for pure aesthetics. Likewise, if I was looking to take these bagels, cover them with shellac, nail them to an ornate stand, and create some coffee table ornament, I would probably snag a few from Williamsburg. But for taste, consistency, flavor, and a more old-school, authentic bagel, there is simply no comparison! The shop in Gerritsen is not just trying to make a name for itself as "another rainbow bagel store...yawn" They are putting out bagels and other culinary delicacies that are both trendy AND delicious, as well as being a far superior product. And by the way, speaking of visuals, this is not to say that the Rainbow bagels from Gerritsen aren't gorgeous in their own right, because they are very beautiful. But, and this is the important part, I will take the bagels in Gerritsen hand down and without hesitation. This is NOT to say the bagels at the "more famous place" are bad. They aren't. They put out an excellent product, too. So in no way am I trying to disparage another shop, because I wouldn't turn my nose up at ANY bagels at this level of quality! read more

long waits in the morning, coffee can be cold sometimes and not always fresh. bagels are good

I know this place very well. Not much for decorum or candor- never had any problems like the above poster but- MAN OH MAN....these bagels are a gift from GOD. They're not anything like your Bagel Boy bagel or (enter your favorite brooklyn deli here). They're much better. Guaranteed. The bagels are made next to the counter fresh and will steam your car windows if not careful in the winter. Working in a public school, Ive introduced these bagels to dozens of different staff members from all over the city and country when we've had meetings for the past year and the verdict is in on these babies. I even get a kick out of people's reactions when they have one. I don't know how they do it exactly but there's a certain sweetness type quality in the bread that makes them absolutely perfect while the outer crust retains those attributes along with a fine balance in the crisp factor. Maybe the genious is in the arguing behind the counter but it all makes sense. Best in Brooklyn vote from myself and many others. read more

These are the best bagels I've ever had and I'm from Montreal. Soft and fresh, and so large that the hole had begun to close in on itself. To say they don't skimp on the cream cheese is a huge understatement. Also great with bacon and eggs on it. Often the bagels are warm from the oven. I want to go back to Brooklyn just to have more. read more

Delicious hand rolled bagels. Fresh sandwiches. The bacon egg and cheese as well as the veggy cream cheese are excellent choices. Love this place! read more

Just good. Everything's so fresh and for a great price, get a good breakfast. I know the owner and he takes his job seriously, providing Gerritsen Beach with the best food made out of the best ingredients. The bagels are crispy, but soft on the inside. The also are light and don't feel heavy in your stomach. read more

This place has definitely gone down hill in the last few months. All of the sudden they stopped making pretzel bagels and bialys which were there two best bagels there. Lately bagels have been burnt, hard, and taste disgusting. They used to be doughy and good but not anymore. The owner really needs to come in more and look over his place of business. Absent owner = horrible food. Really disappointed since location is so key to the people that live in this neighborhood. Now let's talk about the staff! This has to be the slowest bagel store known to man! Every time I go in there it takes about 10-15 minutes before my order is ready and correct. Which they mess up orders a lot too here. I don't know where he hired his staff from but they are all horrible, and unprofessional. Knapp street bagels until Gerritsen bagels can get their act together and actually make decent bagels again. read more