Taste of New York Bagels & Deli

TONY is a frequent spot our firm orders from on Relish. We love the service and the food is delicious! Thank you!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food was amazing and the service was even better. Definitely recommend going here!

Parking: there is street parking

Kid-friendliness: very kid friendly

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Za'Atar Bagel Labneh

The best ?

Let me tell you the Penn Station the Statue of Liberty the most delicious sandwiches I've ever tasted I will be back for more soon.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Bagels are fine, but so far the sandwiches have all been just ok. $14 for a tuna melt (that wasn’t even toasted/melted) earned them the “never again”.

Best turkey club ever! Super nice people working there.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Eh. Average, at best. But that's not really good enough in Chicago.

I bought a Reuben. I was expecting toasted rye bread. It was regular bread. Bleh. I don't remember any Swiss cheese on it. I don't recall any sauerkraut, either. Just some odd, Thousand Island-ish dressing. I didn't recognize the meat brand, and I've lived in Chicago all my life. I could probably easily tell you if it's Vienna, Boar's Head or whatever, blindfolded.

Sorta reminds me of the time I bought a "Chicago" hot dog out of state and it was nothing like home. I wanted to show them how to do it correctly...

Reubens is toasted rye bread (actually expected a rye bagel, considering Bagels are their thing...?), buttered (use a GREAT, flavorful butter, like Kerrygold) sauerkraut, mustard (slightly spicy, but no booze, people are highly allergic to alcohol) and Swiss cheese. Bread must have seeds, even though they're a pain to clean up. (Points for that here)

Should have some sort of fresh ground spices (Spice house is right there at North and Wells), maybe garden dill, smoke salt and some sort of depth of flavor spice, like a garlic/celery salt. I'd add fresh romaine or head lettuce. Maybe some light type of barbecue/meat spice to bring out flavors w/o relying on cheap salt (over sea/smoke salt)

I didn't notice any signs bragging about the brands used, which here is kind of a not-great sign. There was a place on Webster @ Sheffield where I asked "What kind of hot dogs?" And shamefully, they didn't know. Ooh, not good...they were gone in 6 months.

Regular bread made the sandwich kinda soggy...There was more than enough food, but it was average.

If you're going to make a "sloppy" sandwich, please use top-quality bread. Aldi brand, for example, can't do the job. Breadsmith can, and it better, for 8 bucks a loaf. So can Rosen's brand. I don't want to get a mess in my (fairly) new (3 years old; new to me) car.

More than enough meat, just maybe too much meat and not enough depth of flavor dimensions...

I liked the pickles. I liked the chips, nice n crunchy, and not obnoxiously salty. I bought a Columbe cold coffee. It wasn't quite what I've had before. It was ok, just not refreshing, like the Starbuck's bottled coffee or 7-11 brand.

Price was ok. Not hideously overpriced. Which I expected, knowing that area very well.

I thought the mixed, young pretty girl did a good job. She was friendly and polite. I thought she must be someone's daughter as she was speaking some language I didn't recognize. Armenian, I thought it might have been...? The older man handed me something and I thanked him and he said nothing, which is very bizarre to me.

I bought plantains, they look like banana chips, but they're not. Actually very good.

I didn't like seeing what looked like real food lying out, exposed, up on the wall on shelves by the ceiling. I just thought "Ew." I don't ever even leave food out at my own house. NEVER, EVER. Why? Well, obvious reasons. It attracts bugs and rodents.

Even the tomatoes and peaches are in SEALED containers for that reason. (Tomatoes get weird in the fridge. Unless cut. Local peaches also like to be out if you'll eat them soon.)

In sealed cases, maybe or obviously fake food would be different. I didn't like seeing food out like that, tho. I know it's hard enough to keep things out of restaurants that shouldn't be there. Why bring problems?

Also thought the corned beef was too thick. I like pretty much shaved. This is how you get the best flavor out of meat.

Chicago has a ton of great food. Every time should be omg. I mean, average works, but u could go t

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 3

Honestly if you are ever near Belmont you should definitely check this place out. I never went into a Deli before. My first time here was really great. It was peaceful and calm It's a perfect place to go to relax and enjoy the simple things in life without a worry. The server was really patient with me when ordering. I recommend the cheese sandwich platter it's super tasty and worth it!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We placed a large order of rainbow bagels for work. They were were wonderful to work with, and employees loved the fresh bagels!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

My chicken sandwich with potato pancake was $18 large portion of chicken breast, fresh cooked chicken, one of the few places to serve egg white omelets, the French dip beef was a large portion with lean meat. When u have lunch here plan on taking leftovers home. Potato pancake brought back memories of Morse ave. We had a wheelchair with us and staff was very helpful

Wheelchair accessibility: Power door staff was helpful placing us at table for wheelchair

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I discovered this place in a completely unpretentious way, and as I love NYC bagels I decided to stop and try them, but I confess that I expected more. There were many options, the best choice was smoked salmon with cream cheese, but the bagel was a little hard and cold, it seemed to have come straight from a refrigerator, it didn't seem fresh, it could have been a little warmed up. The service was very friendly, and the atmosphere was good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Excellent bagels.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good food. But not taste of

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

The bagels are ridiculously good and the family who runs the place are some of my favorite people now. I got a bunch of bagels to freeze and then made a vegan omelette sandwich with dukkah - needs to be on the menu!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Good menu choices

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4