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Cafe in Bandra (W)
Rated: Good
based on 7 reviews
The Bagel Shop
Below Barefoot, Pali Mala Road, Off Carter Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai
26050178
| Locality | Bandra (W) |
|---|---|
| Place Type | Cafe |
| Food Type | Coffee, Western |
| Timings | 7:00 AM to Midnight |
| Price |
  Moderate
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first reviewed by aarti
- User Reviews (7)
Aug 05, 2008
Bagels & salads..
The innumerable visits to the reviews here & the countless attempts at actually locating the place, today finally resulted in moments of joy.
After reading the review for Gloria Jean, I was most curious to step in. Call it serendipity or just my strong desire to visit the Bagel Shop, I bump into this friend in Bandra (I was on my way to GJ mind you!) who goes “hey lets go to the bagel shop, its AWESOME!”
For the benefit of those who have been attempting to locate this place & haven’t quite managed there are two ways of approaching it. Either take the turn where Basilico, Papa Pancho, Mia Cucina (all those who haven’t – please do go – amazing!) etc. are, then a right, and then a left (the road slopes upwards) and then a left again. If you take the right one reach the Fab India on Pali Hill. The alternate is to take the turn where the Police Commissioner’s office is on Carter Road – drive slowly for two reasons, the pathetic road; two, lest you miss the Bagel Shop! Once there - the place has a lovely Goan feel to it, despite being in a congested by lane of Bandra. But I can’t help say that the overall feel is a bit cramped.
All bakers & break makers will probably want to shoot me for saying this, but I think a pretty good job has been done at glorifying regular bread in various shapes and sizes, fancy names, but with pretty much the same taste. One such example would be the bagel. However, I did read that a bagel is the only bread that is boiled before being baked resulting in a crisp crust & light spongy interior.
With this review restricted to the vegetarian assortment on the menu, the only comment I can make on the non-veg selection would be - given the way my friend was chomping on the sausage bagel, am pretty sure it was amazing. The bagel by itself was anything but spongy, but crisp it was (& a tad greasy).
I had the herbed cream cheese bagel with sun dried tomatoes. The cream cheese just oozes out of the bagel, spilling it on clothes, floor, table, basically all over. It’s also available without the herb, with herbs it varies from pepper, mixed herbs etc. There was also a garlic bagel & one with oven roasted veggies. In the sweet varieties there’s honey & banana, nutella, jam (strawberry, raspberry, blueberry). There were the more exotic varieties with goat’s cheese, however didn’t think it worth spending something like 200 bucks on a bagel. Had the lemon ginger tea – quite nice. Don’t add sugar.
Overall a 3 star experience – I thought it was a tad expensive. The total bill of Rs. 442 consisted of:
1. 1 Non-veg bagel
2. 1 Herbed cream cheese bagel
3. 2 lemon ginger teas
4. 1 blueberry jam bagel
Also, the way the jam was served separately from the bagel, was something I did quite appreciate.
If you thought the bagel meant a quick bite then this is not place to swing by. Take a leisurely 2-3 hours (atleast) and given the service turn around time, this is the minimum amount of time one would spend!
May 23, 2008
Bad service! Bad coffee! Why open a cafe?
The only good part about this place is that it's probably the only uncrowded cafe in Bombay. I like the location and the cane furniture that gives it a nice ambiance..but its confused... I mean bagels are American, and putting random hollywood posters doesn't justify the concept. The servers take ages to take your order and it supposedly takes em half hour to serve luke warm drip coffee. I have been there thrice only for the quiet ambiance, but each time I've had to deal with inconsistent food and coffee, and horrible service.
Dec 05, 2007
The Bagel Shop- This place has potential...
After 3 unsuccessful attempts to locate this place (thanks to very bad directions from friends) the expectations from Bagel Shop were sky rocketing and rumbling of our stomachs deafening.
I proceeded to pick a healthy ‘Power Salad’- Smoked Chicken (in line with my light n healthy dinner campaign) and Prad got the Grilled Veggie Bagel. We also ordered a Cold Coffee with less sugar (remember the healthy dinner campaign?) and a Black Coffee for the brooding boy.
Now for the review part- The Veggie Bagel was strange; not bad but slightly strange- I guess it was full of zucchini. The salad was hardly powerful- the regular cucumber and tomato stuff with some chicken and onion crackers (my favorite part) to make it interesting. But the lemon and herb dressing was great and all in all the salad tasted good. But more like something I’d whisk up at home and not a restaurant salad. And I guess that’s what works for this place, the home feel.
The service isn’t much to write about and my not sweet Cold Coffe was exactly the opposite. They then made us wait for 10 mins with my credit card lying on table with the bill to inform us (after we enquired) that they weren’t accepting cards. Luckily they had interesting firangi magazines lying around to keep me occupied and from blowing my top. With prices slightly on the higher side and a so-so location they really need to work hard on food and service to get back repeat customers.
Jul 03, 2007
Good food if you are a gourmet
A good small place to hang out.
It feels like you are at a home / friends place.
Food quality is great and hygienic.
What I ate there?
Plane bagel, open bagel, Veg Salad, Some juices and great coffee too.
I think they are good in preparing Non-veg stuff too but never tried that.
Hope you will enjoy a small home at The Bagel Shop.
May 16, 2007
5 stars just for the lox
Half the battle is finding this place to begin with -- navigating from Pali Market can be tricky with the one-way streets -- once you're there though, you're set.
Great selection of veg and non-veg bagel sandwiches. You can just get cream cheese and a bagel, there's a pretty good chicken salad, and they have lox too. Having lox, cream cheese, and a bagel in Bombay outside of a 5-star hotel -- now that's rare!
The bagels are a little sweet for my taste, but so is the bread in most Mumbai bakeries. And the furniture inside is made for midgets. But the vibe is relaxed and its a nice place to chill for the afternoon. It's owned by the same people as Zenzi, and they seem like they know what they're doing.