So so so expensive! I was horrified that I was charged $7.20 for a croissant! Needless to say, I will never return! They did not even offer to warm it up! As much as I would like to support local business, I will not be able to support this business!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Daniel L
I go here for the friendly staff as much as I do the delicious food, warmly decorated interior, and a piano in which I can take a break from my computer work.
The bagels and pastries are delicious, but the espresso is my favorite, with lots of flavor. You can tell they care about everything they make there and everything they do, including their environmental practices. Truly a gem that I hope exists for decades to come. Thanks B&B.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tamara Esquivel
everything is wonderful here, especially the atmosphere…think fun library with material and games for old and young…and a piano that people can play, beautifully! 5 stars!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Matt Schirmacher
This is a great little coffee and bagel shop. They offer bagels, pastries, donuts and breakfast sandwiches. Everything we tried was fantastic and the service was friendly and prompt. The indoor seating area is full of interesting old books, photos and other items. Great little spot.
The apple fritters are absolutely wonderful and the old fashioned kind with chunks of apple and cinnamon swirl throughout the dough.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sean Moore
Best bagels in Chicago, eco-friendly, and friendly staff!
Sean Gunderson
B&B is a wonderful spot with pretty decent food. Love the green mission and effort to minimize waste. What I didn’t like was the snarky response to warm up two pastries after having spent $70 plus to eat bagels and drink coffee. I was told it would be too disruptive to their process. Her statements and expression said, hey customer, don’t you know this is all about me! Appears that some of the staff have an attitude that is not as passionate about customer service as they are reducing climate change. I’ll take my business elsewhere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 2
Rachel Mavros
Great experience here! Bagel sandwiches were so fresh. Wonderful space with original details to the building - you've got original flooring, books on display on theoretical chess, hardcover volumes of National Geographic from the 80s, this place is legit
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Michael Damato
Absolute must go gem of a spot. Tucked away in the neighborhood right next to the brown line, serving counter culture coffee, pastries, bagels, and sandwiches.
Everything was very delicious and of very high quality. The interior may seem small at first but there is a side seating room decorated like an old style map room or library with lots of vintage books, wood finish, and chess sets.
The room has large format seating for groups or letting you sit with your neighbors.
Definitely a must try!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
M B
Always great food and service. Would keep coming even if they were only pick up at the window again but their indoor space being back open is nice as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Hannah Dorn
My husband ordered a double shot of espresso here and they refused to give it to him in a to go cup even though they had small to go cups. They refused and couldn’t give any other reason beyond “we only serve these in our “for here” cups”. He had to order a drip coffee instead so that he could take it to go. Weird hill to die on for a coffee shop.
Cozy little coffee shop. Have not actually tried their bagels but their potato leek pastry and their spinach feta pastry have become one of my favorite breakfast items around the neighborhood. Their old fashioned donut is also a great choice.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Karina Barrantes
Great food! Beautiful service. Very kind!
Lizzy
Glad you are now open to walk in again :) Love the coffee system!! And the savory pastries
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Elena B
I've often described Beans & Bagels as the coffee shop equivalent of stubbing your toe- not an egregious, life threatening injury, but one nonetheless painful. Something you forget just how unpleasant it is until it happens again. That is Beans & Bagels in a nutshell: unpleasant, but not in a way that sticks until you are lured back in by its genuinely excellent food, and you are forced to interface with the experience of actually having to go there.
Like I said before, the food is genuinely excellent. The chai is wonderful, it's bagels are decently priced and delicious, and it has a nice variety of delicious pastries. It's main problem is that Beans & Bagels is not interested in being a community space.
Prior to opening up earlier this year, it was mostly a pickup window. That was not a problem- in fact, I admired their commitment to maintaining covid precautions. The issue was that in that process how unpleasant they made it to go there. The little outdoor seating they had was often dirty. They had no recycling or trash bins. They refused to modify orders, even something as small as asking for a little less cream cheese on a bagel. Beans & Bagels made it incredibly clear that they were there to give you food, and then you leave.
I was excited to see that they opened up, and that mentality has unfortunately carried over. Seating is mostly in long, cafeteria style table. They don't offer wifi, and were irritated when I asked if they did. I was looking forward to a new coffee shop to enjoy some good food and get some work done- but like I said, Beans & Bagels is not interested in being a community space. The best way to experience Beans & Bagels is simply to get your food, and leave.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 2
Richard Gonzales
Used to like this place They don’t have a number to call and complain. I order two bagels with bacon and 1 with sausage. They only gave us 2 bagels and we were to far away to head back and get our sandwich
So so so expensive! I was horrified that I was charged $7.20 for a croissant! Needless to say, I will never return! They did not even offer to warm it up! As much as I would like to support local business, I will not be able to support this business!
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
I go here for the friendly staff as much as I do the delicious food, warmly decorated interior, and a piano in which I can take a break from my computer work.
The bagels and pastries are delicious, but the espresso is my favorite, with lots of flavor. You can tell they care about everything they make there and everything they do, including their environmental practices. Truly a gem that I hope exists for decades to come. Thanks B&B.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
everything is wonderful here, especially the atmosphere…think fun library with material and games for old and young…and a piano that people can play, beautifully! 5 stars!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is a great little coffee and bagel shop. They offer bagels, pastries, donuts and breakfast sandwiches. Everything we tried was fantastic and the service was friendly and prompt. The indoor seating area is full of interesting old books, photos and other items. Great little spot.
The apple fritters are absolutely wonderful and the old fashioned kind with chunks of apple and cinnamon swirl throughout the dough.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best bagels in Chicago, eco-friendly, and friendly staff!
B&B is a wonderful spot with pretty decent food. Love the green mission and effort to minimize waste. What I didn’t like was the snarky response to warm up two pastries after having spent $70 plus to eat bagels and drink coffee. I was told it would be too disruptive to their process. Her statements and expression said, hey customer, don’t you know this is all about me! Appears that some of the staff have an attitude that is not as passionate about customer service as they are reducing climate change. I’ll take my business elsewhere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 2
Great experience here! Bagel sandwiches were so fresh. Wonderful space with original details to the building - you've got original flooring, books on display on theoretical chess, hardcover volumes of National Geographic from the 80s, this place is legit
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Absolute must go gem of a spot. Tucked away in the neighborhood right next to the brown line, serving counter culture coffee, pastries, bagels, and sandwiches.
Everything was very delicious and of very high quality. The interior may seem small at first but there is a side seating room decorated like an old style map room or library with lots of vintage books, wood finish, and chess sets.
The room has large format seating for groups or letting you sit with your neighbors.
Definitely a must try!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Always great food and service. Would keep coming even if they were only pick up at the window again but their indoor space being back open is nice as well.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My husband ordered a double shot of espresso here and they refused to give it to him in a to go cup even though they had small to go cups. They refused and couldn’t give any other reason beyond “we only serve these in our “for here” cups”. He had to order a drip coffee instead so that he could take it to go. Weird hill to die on for a coffee shop.
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Cozy little coffee shop. Have not actually tried their bagels but their potato leek pastry and their spinach feta pastry have become one of my favorite breakfast items around the neighborhood. Their old fashioned donut is also a great choice.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food! Beautiful service. Very kind!
Glad you are now open to walk in again :)
Love the coffee system!! And the savory pastries
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I've often described Beans & Bagels as the coffee shop equivalent of stubbing your toe- not an egregious, life threatening injury, but one nonetheless painful. Something you forget just how unpleasant it is until it happens again. That is Beans & Bagels in a nutshell: unpleasant, but not in a way that sticks until you are lured back in by its genuinely excellent food, and you are forced to interface with the experience of actually having to go there.
Like I said before, the food is genuinely excellent. The chai is wonderful, it's bagels are decently priced and delicious, and it has a nice variety of delicious pastries. It's main problem is that Beans & Bagels is not interested in being a community space.
Prior to opening up earlier this year, it was mostly a pickup window. That was not a problem- in fact, I admired their commitment to maintaining covid precautions. The issue was that in that process how unpleasant they made it to go there. The little outdoor seating they had was often dirty. They had no recycling or trash bins. They refused to modify orders, even something as small as asking for a little less cream cheese on a bagel. Beans & Bagels made it incredibly clear that they were there to give you food, and then you leave.
I was excited to see that they opened up, and that mentality has unfortunately carried over. Seating is mostly in long, cafeteria style table. They don't offer wifi, and were irritated when I asked if they did. I was looking forward to a new coffee shop to enjoy some good food and get some work done- but like I said, Beans & Bagels is not interested in being a community space. The best way to experience Beans & Bagels is simply to get your food, and leave.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 5
Service: 2
Used to like this place
They don’t have a number to call and complain. I order two bagels with bacon and 1 with sausage. They only gave us 2 bagels and we were to far away to head back and get our sandwich
This is highly unacceptable
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
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