The Happening Bagel Bakery Reviews Summary

Bagel Quality

Pros:

• "One of the places around that serves fresh tasty bagels everyday, they are prepared in store and the staff are nice and helpful."
• "The bagels are excellent, can be freshly filled in the shop and are delicious."
• "Nothing nicer than taking half a dozen hot bagels home!"
• "Great bagels and cholas. Their filled bagels are excellent. Smoked salmon and cream cheese especially."
• "Their bagels are the best I've ever tried in my whole life!"
• "Best bagels for take home I've had in London so far."
• "Absolutely lovely bagels!"

Cons:

• "Used to be really good bagels but it’s getting too pricey and staler, they don’t seem to be refreshing batches in the afternoon."
• "Good bagels for London, but they are still using London water so the bagels and Challah are rather dry on the inside."
• "Atrocious dill salt beef bagel. Very little beef and the dill that you’d expect to be either dill or dill picked are shaved into mustard and act as a spread rather than topping."
• "The bagels are significantly smaller than before and quite expensive in comparison to their size."
• "I got the beef and 'dill' bagel? Is It even beef? No. Dill? Not that i could taste."
• "The bagels... quite expensive in comparison to their size."
• "Best plain bagels this side of the river selling 12 for £6.50 which I thoroughly recommend. Other food they have is all a bit underwhelming for the price tag usually."

Customer Service

Pros:

• "The staff there are efficient and friendly, but mostly rushed off their feet with the demand, so no time for chit chat."
• "The ladies are always polite and the owner's a true gentleman."
• "The staff are friendly and helpful in-person or on the phone."
• "Delicious freshly made bagels and bread. Friendly staff."

Cons:

• "The blonde and brunette servers act like they've been dragged in from the street to work and would rather be elsewhere."
• "The lady serving so unfriendly inpatient and rude, while the other never even looked up, neither smiled once."
• "Some of the workers need customer service training."
• "Very rude and unprofessional, refused to serve me because I told her the question she's asking had already been asked by her colleague."
• "Grumpy staff doesn’t make this experience too good as well."
• "The people working here might not be the friendliest in the world."
• "Customer service here is a myth."

Pricing and Value

Pros:

• "Really good quality ingredients and not too expensive."
• "Came here twice in 4 days to get some bagels and always enjoyed it. Really good quality ingredients and not too expensive."
• "Lovely Bagels! That's all you need to know. Their breads and their selection is excellent and the prices are reasonable."

Cons:

• "Their donuts are horrendously expensive."
• "Shockingly expensive for what?"
• "Everything is too pricy, it feels staff doesn't want to serve you."
• "This place makes great pastries but recently raised their prices by an average of about 15%."
• "Edit 2 years later and I'm dropping a star it's like 8 quid for 12 bagels now."
• "It is over-priced and the staff are grumpy."
• "Poor standards at this bakery... the overall pricing for the items were extortionate."

Bakery Products

Pros:

• "The baked bread is fantastic. Whenever I go to buy bread, always great timing as its just out of the oven, hot, fresh and delicious."
• "The best thing about this place is that it's open until late and opens super early in the morning."
• "Best Bakery in North London. The sweet bread is truly divine and the doughnut are very delicious."
• "Brilliant little spot with freshly made bagels, the pre-filled ones with cream cheese and smoked salmon are lovely. Sells various other items such as sweets and savoury pastries too."
• "I love the bread here. Cakes and sausage rolls are pretty good too."
• "Very nice cakes, beautifully displayed and the taller lady is lovely."
• "This is one of the best bakerys for their Chola bread and bagels! Everyone who goes there will know that the bread is always delicious, fresh and hot from the oven."

Cons:

• "Their apple donuts are not always fresh."
• "The strawberry cake was again just a sponge and the only strawberry it had on it was a thin layer of strawberry jam on top."
• "Don't bother with the cakes and pastries. They are not very good and expensive BUT the bagels are phenomenal."
• "I didn't try the bagels but bought a scone and a few cookies. Absolutely terrible and so expensive!!"
• "Never going back, stale pastries, very overcooked steak slices, and pizza slice from hell."
• "Bought a slice of cake looked nice a big thick Slice even though overpriced but sadly not very nice it had no taste didn't taste like pineapple or even have pineapple chunks inside, shouldn't call it pineapple cake."
• "The food is dry and awful."