Love Bagels? Discover the Top 5 Best Bagel Shops in Journal Square, New Jersey.
Do you love bagels? Whether you love them toasted, with cream cheese, with spreads, toppings, as a breakfast sandwich, with lox, bagels are one of those foods that have become a staple of the American diet since its introduction. It's easy to see why, as they're as versatile as they are tasty, portable, and satisfying.
They're perfect for breakfast, lunch, and snacking anytime! Luckily, Jersey City is home to some of the best bagel shops around. There are tons of great shops in this area close by to CMPND in Journal Square that are serving up bagels in a variety of delicious ways.
Conveniently located like our Jersey City luxury apartments and affordable, these shops are so nearby that you can walk, bike or drive there and still make it back to work with time to spare.
Journal Square and New Jersey play host to several bagel shops, each offering its own unique menu and flavors. Check out our list below to see our best bagel shops in the Journal Square area and get five delicious new breakfast and lunch destinations.
The Top 5 Best Bagel Shops in Journal Square
WONDER BAGELS
Wonder Bagels was voted #1 bagel shop in New Jersey by Bergen Record and lives up to the hype!
Stop in here and choose from cinnamon raisin bagels, everything, plain, whole wheat, pumpernickel, walnut, sesame, poppy, multigrain, and more.
Wonder Bagels also makes their own homemade cream cheese: blueberry, strawberry, walnut raisin, vegetable cream cheese, olive, scallion, or sun-dried tomato. Other toppings include butter, cream cheese, jelly, peanut butter, plain tofu cream cheese, gourmet tofu spread, lox spread cream cheese, or whitefish salad.
Their New York-style lox bagel has nova lox, cream cheese, onions, and tomatoes. Breakfast sandwiches are available on your choice of bagel, sliced bread, or roll with egg, egg, and cheese, egg whites only, or with meat added on. The shop offers omelets for breakfast and for lunch, customers can select from a healthy variety of wraps, gourmet salad sandwiches, panini, grilled sandwich options, burgers, Boar's Head sandwiches, cheese sandwiches, and quesadillas.
Be sure to check out their signature 'Rainbow Bagel', a photogenic fun bagel of many colors, and their beverages (freshly squeezed orange juice and iced coffee, among others).
The 729 Bergen Avenue location of Wonder Bagels is just 0.6 miles away from CMPND office spaces. Walking there takes under fifteen minutes while driving will take five or less, so it's always convenient and easy to pop in and grab something to eat and drink from this award-winning bagel shop.
TOASTED BAGELS & DELI
http://toastedbagelsanddeli.com/
This hip-looking part deli, part café is an awesome Journal Square-spot you must check out. Offering to dine in, to-go, pick up and delivery through Seamless and GrubHub, bagels in baskets await with an inviting sheen to be toasted, topped, and savored.
For beverages, grab an espresso, latte, cappuccino, iced tea, iced coffee, hot chocolate, or one of several other beverages offered here. Toasted also offers plenty of food options. Grab a bagel (sesame, poppy seed, plain, everything) with butter, peanut butter, regular or flavored cream cheese, low-fat cream cheese or tofu cream cheese, or one of several breakfast sandwiches, burgers, soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, omelets, or one of their delectable bakery items like the apple turnover, plain, chocolate, or almond croissant, yogurt muffin or jumbo cookie.
You can find Toasted Bagels & Deli at 520 Summit Ave. in Jersey City. It's just a short 3-4 minute drive or about a 6-minute walk from CMPND!
INTERNATIONAL BAGEL & CAFE
https://international-bagel-cafe.business.site/
Hop down to 213 Newark Ave. to check out this awesome spot for local bagels, coffee, breakfast, and lunch! Just a 10-minute drive from the CMPND office spaces, this is the perfect cafe to visit before starting your workday or if you're hungry in the afternoon.
You can order a single bagel, a half dozen bagels, or a baker's dozen bagels. Bagels can be toasted or untoasted, with butter, jelly, peanut butter, peanut butter and jelly, cream cheese, lox spread, or lox and cream cheese. The flavored cream cheese choices include plain, low-fat, scallion, scallion and bacon, olive pimento, veggie, walnut raisin, honey almond, or their lox spread and are reason enough to come here alone!
The most impressive thing about International's bagels is the sheer variety available. Customers can choose from plain, everything, onion, whole wheat, energy, sesame, cinnamon raisin, garlic, egg, bialy, french toast, poppy, pumpernickel, asiago cheese, or whole wheat everything.
The cafe also offers breakfast foods such as pancakes, french toast, bacon, ham, turkey bacon, turkey sausage, omelets, home fries, avocado toast, and smoothies, and freshly made juices.
With a variety of baked goods, desserts, sandwiches, salads, burgers, hot and cold drinks including espresso drinks, iced coffee and tea, hot coffee and tea, Gatorade, Vitamin Waters, and more, International Bagel & Cafe is one of those breakfast and lunch spots that quickly becomes a favorite! They are open to customers and also offer convenient take-out and delivery(GrubHub, Seamless).
CITY CAFE & BAKERY
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Restaurant/City-Cafe-Bakery-1558943147560422/
Located at 2800 John F. Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City, City Cafe & Bakery offers dine-in, takeout, and delivery (GrubHub, Seamless), as well as some outdoor seating. This Journal Square spot is so cozy on the interior, so convenient and affordable, that it's sure to become one of your favorite breakfast and lunch spots. It's just an 8-minute walk and a 5-minute drive to CMPND.
This sophisticated bakery has fresh pastries, amazing desserts, tasty food, and fantastic coffee. Whether you want a large coffee, an iced latte (regular, almond milk, etc.), iced coffee, smoothies, blended coffee drinks, Pellegrino, one of their hot organic teas, this cafe has it waiting for you and a variety of other drinks besides.
This is a really excellent shop to visit if you love pastries as they have them available in spades. If you're craving a fresh almond croissant, this is your go-to place to check out. They also offer cookies, muffins, sandwiches, quiches, panini sandwiches, salads, and bagels. Order your bagel on its own, with cream cheese, or as part of a bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich.
City Cafe & Bakery is a great place to stop by for an everything or plain bagel as well as a delectable treat and hot espresso drink. Stop by and see what you think!
HIDDEN GROUNDS COFFEE
https://thehiddengrounds.com/148-1st-street-jersey-city-menu/
This 148 1st Street coffee shop offers bagels in addition to a number of other tantalizing options for food and beverages that keep the customers coming back! It's farther than the other locations at around 10 minutes or so to get to the location driving, but it's totally worth it for the delectable menu they offer.
Order black coffee, cold brew, espresso drinks, or signature drinks like the Honey Bee Latte with honey, milk, espresso, and cinnamon. Have one of their teas, like a taro iced latte or matcha latte. In addition to standard, Hidden Grounds offers almond, oat, and soy milk for its drinks, which include an impressive variety of hot chai.
Their New York City bagels are available in everything or plain and cream cheese choices are simple, with either jalapeno or scallion and chive to pick from. The bagel options themselves, though, are ample: order with cream cheese, with cream cheese and avocado, as part of a bagel sandwich, a garden bagel, salmon bagel, or a bagel egg and cheese (plain, savory, bacon or sausage).
With other items available such as toasts and sandwiches, Hidden Grounds is certainly a hidden Jersey City gem that you must check out!
Journal Square and New Jersey play host to several bagel shops, each offering its own unique menu and flavors, much like the variety you'd find in a thriving Coworking Space in Jersey City. For those expanding their business horizons, our Jersey City office space for lease offers unparalleled flexibility and location advantages, as well as office space in Great Neck. Indulge in the best bagels at Journal Square's top 5 shops, then return to your office space for rent in Homestead, ready to tackle the day's tasks with renewed energy.