Tasty breakfast sandwich! Bummer they ran out of the lox to make the classic breakfast sandwich I was craving, so we subbed for a bacon egg and cheese. The only bagel flavor they had left was plain (we ordered around 11:30 on a Thursday) which I was a little concerned about, but the bagels were fresh and chewy in the best way. Wish there was more variety but we were happy with what we got! read more

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When I asked for a small pastry and you stuck it in the bag... I didn't wait all day to come home to this burned thing! It's literally too burned to bite thru! UPDATE: The bagel I took home was HARD AS A ROCK when I tried to eat it that night. yikes!! read more

Paysan Bread - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

Friendly staff. Excellent bagels. There are only 2 picnic tables outside but most people order and go next door for coffee. Nice atmosphere

LOVE IT!! If you've lived in NYC or Philly, you won't be disappointed coming here. These bagels are perfect. Chewy & delicious. Their sourdough bread is excellent as well. Everything tastes super fresh. I highly recommend Paysan! read more

Paysan Bread - Italian seasoning & cheese bagel with lox on the inside. SO GOOD! - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

Bagels with delicious creamy cream cheese. It was a walk up window only. Wait wasn't too long. Bagels did not disappoint one bit.

Omfg - best bagel place in knoxville, so delicious and fresh I highly recommend. Every time I go, service is fast, and I always grab coffee and eat at remedy next door! read more

Paysan Bread - Blt bagel - my favorite. Normally get it on an everything bagel but sesame will do!! - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

Love your bagels but your customer service needs work. Sat morning I ordered 12 everythg bagels online ( specifying everythg) like I have many times in the past always everythg... came abt noon to pick them up and you handed my husband a single bag of bagels (12) with an assortment of bagels only 6 of what we ordeted.. he went back and all you kept saying was you have to check the box. Well wait we ordered 24 not 12. You continued to say my husband screwed up never even mentioning there was only half an order there. we did get a refund plus 6 bagels but next time don't blame the customer for your mistake. Count your bagels b4 you leave is my advice... read more

I recently came across this place and I am slightly obsessed with the salt and pepper bagel. They bagels are too good especially with the veggies. Last time I got it with cream cheese and I still wasn't disappointed. It's a cute little place and worth the trip to grab a bagel to go! Highly recommend read more

I've gone there multiple times and they're always out of bagels. Just increase your stock. It's not that hard.

I would write a review about the bagels but uh they were out of them (at least an hour or so before they were supposed to close.) Fine, that works. What doesn't work? Is weirdly stating you only have one sandwich left that we could order. Of course it had a cute diminutive hipster name. It was a toastie. A grilled cheese? Nope. A toastie. So you have a bakery and, like, various sandwiches you can make on bagels but yet when you're out of bagels you can't make a sandwich on the bread you have. Cool, that's logic! So now to the "toastie" lol, i can't even believe I have to type that as a word out, but here we are. The toastie: an overpriced grilled cheese that was so forgettable I can't even remember what it tastes like, and this was like three days ago. And believe me, I'm from the land of overpriced farmers market food or whatever you want to call a 10 dollar grilled cheese. I get these are weird times. But sometimes I just want a good thing. Not a hip thing, not something that looks good on instagram (which I assume if I had gotten a bagel, maybe that would be the ticket? but we shall never know because the bagel shop was out of bagels but yet stayed open, quite the conundrum huh?.) Anyhoo, I get it, I'm from NYC. I expect you know a modicum of professionalism, and if you're open, you have the thing that you advertise you sell. But who knows, it's a pandemic and the world is wild rn. I try and not write negative reviews (I legit have never written one), but this was literally a bonkers situation that I am still trying to sort in my brain. A bagel place sans bagels and then uh the inability to make anything other than a mediocre grilled cheese. read more

My wife and I each ordered a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on an Asiago bagel. The employees are very pleasant, the ordering was easy, and they even delivered our order next door at Remedy Coffee. The bagel was excellent. However, the egg was so thick and fluffy, the sandwich wouldn't stay together while eating it. The bacon was bit salty. It was a messy, but delicious sandwich. It was also a lot of food. Next time, my wife and I would share one, or just get a bagel with Crean cheese or butter. And at $22 with tax tip, it's a bit pricey in my opinion. read more

Very sorry to say it but I tried the new Payssn at marble city. The Cuban was just not good and the smashed potato salad was very very salty. I hated to not like it but they've got to do better. I couldn't even eat it. Very disappointed. read more

I usually ramp up, but I'll cut to the quick: the lil lemon things are ridiculous. Buy them before I buy them all. A good bakery is a vital part of any good city, really making it a good community. Good, local bakeries are actually pretty hard to come by. So when a good one comes along, you and the rest of the community has to support it. Paysan Bread is that bakery. They have all manner of bread, bagels, and baked goods...and thank goodness they do. I'm not much of a bagel person, but can say that a friend from New York said their everything bagel is the best one he's had while living in the south. On to what I know. As mentioned, those lil lemon things are absolutely ridiculous, and I have a hard time not eating a dozen in one sitting. I also got a loaf of bread, which was amazing. Heat it up in the oven a bit, spread on some butter...ohboyhowdy. Something to keep in mind: real bread from a real bakery will go bad quicker. It doesn't have all the crap that preserves the bread. read more

Apparently the only place in Knoxville to get fresh baked bread. It's no Tartine, but it doesn't disappoint either. I've been here only a couple weeks and have already eaten... 6 loaves? read more

best bagel i ever had. Nice little place, super easy to order online and takeout. Polite people. The BLT bagel blew me away.

Very disappointing. I love bacon egg and cheese sandwiches with a passion but the one I got at Paysans was the worst one I have ever had. The bacon was extremely fatty and undercooked and eggs were very gross and undercooked as well. Couldn't even finish the sandwich it was so gross and I got very sick from what I ate of it. Owner/manager was very rude when I called and let them know it made me sick. Would never recommend and will not be back. read more

The bagels are amazing, but sometimes it's hard to order because they run out of ingredients.

Ok, before Paysan their was a midnight doughnut shop open here. We loved it but I guess the community didn't support it enough to keep it open..... hello make way for Paysan Bread, and I'm not complaining. Literally, as you walk through the door on a Saturday morning the fresh bread smell hits you and you travel to some Italian street shop in your mind. Oh my! I had Asiago bagel with the bacon spread! Lord help me! Next visit I'm going in on the loaf of bread to take come and make sandwiches with! So yeah basically their will be a next time for me... and a next and a next... so please Paysan don't go away like the doughnut shop did. I don't do good with disappointments! read more

Best bagels in town. End of story. The only thing I wish was different is the seating situation, but most of the time people stop by on the way to work or school, so I don't see a problem. Cheap bagels and good prices. read more

Food is always so good. Service is kind of awful -- I come pretty frequently and whenever I go to order the workers always look like I'm being the biggest inconvenience in their day. Even when I just order a bagel and cream cheese they all turn and look at me like I'm crazy. When I'm the only one in line that bagel always takes like 20 minutes and it's literally cold. read more

The bagels are F R E S H. Don't come in here if you're expecting immediate New York City -yell at you before you come to the counter- service. It can take a little longer than you'd expect, but just run next door, grab a coffee at Remedy and it should be done after that! Highly recommend the Everything with Cream Cheese. One of these days, I'll try the lox bagel as well! I've heard good things. I plan of being a frequent customer! read more

Paysan Bread - everything with plain - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

Delicious. Great bagels. Definitely recommend one of the sandwiches. I always take some of their everything bagels home.

Great bagels but this place is rarely open. I swear, I go the coffeeshop next door and every time, this place is closed. Frustrating.

La baguette et la Cannelé de Bordeaux taste like my childhood in France, where we would walk through the mists of the Seine and English Channel to pick up fresh bread at the open air market. The bread, the Pastry, it tells you a story about the baker. All good pastries do this. You should need no further information to be swayed to visit. read more

If you're looking for the best bagel you've ever tasted, this is the spot! The bagels are baked fresh and taste delicious. They are very generous with the cream cheese, which I love! I always go out of my way to stop here! read more

This review is specifically for their Marble City Market location (I cannot find a way to review it). I ate there for lunch with my 2 kids. I ordered a BLT, and the kids both got grilled cheese. We were excited about the sandwiches being on homemade sourdough bread. Unfortunately we couldn't enjoy the bread on either sandwich because they were dripping with grease. I don't know if that's typical for this restaurant or if it was employee error but I don't plan on trying again to find out. We had plans to walk around downtown after lunch but we were all feeling queasy after eating that we came home. It's well over an hour later and I can still feel the grease in my mouth. I will add, I grew up in the south and have enjoyed plenty of fried, greasy foods but this was truly a different level of greasy. One last thing, I went up to the counter to talk to the employees twice. Both times waited a couple of minutes--and sitting down after the first time for at least five minutes. The second time after waiting a couple of minutes, I asked the employee at the booth next door if she knew where anyone was. She said they were probably in the back and went to find one and she cay back saying she couldn't find them and they must have went to the bathroom. Since there were two employees, I'm surprised they both would have left at the same time and left their booth empty for so long (It was at least ten minutes that I waited for them but I'm not sure how much longer it took after I left for them to return). read more

We were really excited to come here today. We was lucky enough to find parking. The smells walking in were so good. When we got in though, options were very limited. The only items available to buy were bagels and canelés. There were no baguettes or rolls available. Everything other than a loaf of spelt bread was for a wholesale order. The guy at the register wasn't even nice about it. We left there without bread - only a sesame bagel and 2 canalès - which were dark and tasted burned. Super disappointing! read more

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Best bagels in Knoxville! Everyone there is always so friendly and helpful. My favorite is the salt bagel with chive cream cheese.

Pretty authentic bagels - nice and chewy. Often sold out though... Custard tarts ( when not scorched ) are a special treat ! read more

Grabbing bread from this neighborhood spot is the yeast of times! The folks are always helpful. Don't miss their breakfast bagels to get the day started off right. Several restaurants in the area highlight their hoagies on the menu. read more

Paysan Bread - The Punsy steamed sandwich served on Paysan bread - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

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Wow! What a find! Ordered the lox bagel on toasted everything bagel and honestly it's the best I've ever had! Generous with the lox, the toasting was just right! Large capers. Again, wow! Thank you, I'll be back read more

Paysan Bread - Lox bagel - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

Great bagels. Plan to park across Maynardville at Lutheran church. Walk over to bakery's very small shop. Drink coffee/tea and eat Paysan purchase at coffee shop next door. read more

I have been a fan of Paysan since he started coming to the Farmers' Market. Even though I don't eat a ton of bread, I am a huge fan of the Caneles they make. Crunchy on the outside, soft and custardy on the inside. I also enjoy bites of his bread creation at Knox Mason and Emilia. I have heard good things about their bagels too and will have to wait to try those someday. And even though my Caneles were a tad on the burnt side today, they were still delicious and service was friendly. I won't be a super frequent customer cause I have to watch my waistline (dang metabolism!) but I encourage everyone who wants some pretty tasty pastries to stop by. read more

Idk dude. Ive had people recommend Paysan but I gotta say I wasn't impressed, service is super super slow, like 20 minutes for a bagel when I was the only person in line, during non peak hours. There's no place to park. Once I got my bagel it was incredibly underwhelming, on par with like Einstein's which is trash; honestly don't know how places like this stay in business. How are your bagels so bad? read more

We stopped here on the way from East TN to Nashville - boy was it ever worth it! Best bagels I've ever had! The only thing I'd like to change is the selection of options that don't involve cream cheese - I'm just not a big fan and would love a breakfast sandwich option. That said, we'll be back for an everything bagel each and take a dozen with us next time we're in the area for sure! read more

Their bagels were awesome as always. I was very disappointed. They did not have any bread, baguettes, sourdough bowls anything.

This little gem in Knoxville is absolutely to die for! I went with a friend and got a plain bagel with the ramp spread, and was so so excited to find somewhere that served ramps or even knew what they were! 10/10 would recommend going here! Oh, and don't forget to finish off your visit with an amazing Canelé read more

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This is a nice little shop. Very barebones. They clearly care less about design and more about quality baking, as evidenced by a well-worn stack of cookbooks behind the counter. The menu is simple, but stellar. As someone who has lived in New York on and off, I'm always craving a good quality bagel and cream cheese. Paysan gets top marks. I had a pumpernickel bagel with plain cream cheese that was large, chewy, and flavorful. I took off one star because the canalé was a disappointment. Pretty much a burnt mini muffin with only a small edible center. That said, I'll definitely be back to try other bagels and breads. These guys know what they're doing. Side note: they give you a ton of cream cheese. Next time, I'll ask for less. read more

Paysan Bread - Pumpernickel Bagel w/ Plain Cream Cheese - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

We decided to stop for a bagel as we were passing through Knoxville and after a bit of a tangled route Google Maps deposited us at this little gem. Thank goodness! We discovered really excellent bagels, super fresh with a good crust and perfect chew. A generous portion of lox completed the experience and we were on our way, savoring these terrific bagels and regretting we wouldn't be back through Knoxville for a while. read more

Paysan Bread - Bagel & Lox - Bakeries Near Me - Knoxville, Tennessee

Couldn't eat inside, BUT they are the best bagels ive had since i left New York in 1989! The Tomacado sandwich was awesome. Im going there often!!!!!! read more