Bagel Cafe

I’ve come several times to the bagel café and I’ve never disappointed! Bagel sandwiches are a delicious lunch options for a very reasonable price! Service was decent and it has a very cute aesthetic.

Good breakfast choices. Filling with good size portions. The coffee was good as well. Service was friendly and fast. Well worth the trip here if staying in St. John’s. The bagel café is within walking distance of many hotels and close to George Street as well. All day breakfast served too.

Great food and service. Sat next to window with a great view of the people passing by. Waitress very friendly and helpful. Enjoy!

Fantastic service, every time. I’ve been coming here for regular weekend brunch for the past eight years or so. Never disappointed. The service is always prompt and the staff are willing to bend over backwards for you!

We had a bowl of «fresh fruit» that came with a rotten plum, which was replaced with another rotten one. Maybe be weary of the fruit here. Overall it is a greasy spoon, that is a bit too expensive. Paid $ 50 for two people. Our server also spilled milk (not crying over it), and we had to clean it up.

Had a great breakfast at the Bagel Café. We were seated quickly and ordered coffee to start while we looked over the great menu. I had the special which was steak, eggs, hash browns and toast and my wife had the classic breakfast. Both came out quickly and we were very impressed with the portions delivered. My steak was twice the size of what other local restaurants serve for dinner and it was cooked perfectly. The hash browns were delicious and our coffee was kept filled. We would certainly go back again. Excellent meal.

Worth taking a walk to. I had the townie touton (dont say it like you are french) with the baked beans bacon and fried egg in the touton. Delicious and perfect size. Baked beans were amazing. Service was good and coffee decent.

Came here twice during my short stay in St. John’s. My first visit I had the townie touton which is a touton covered in baked beans, bacon and an egg. This was absolutely amazing. My second visit I had a standard breakfast meal with turkey sausage. Hashbrowns were seasoned nicely which I find is something commonly looked over at lots of brunch places. Eggs were cooked perfectly both times. Service was attentive. The reason it is a three star and not a four is the price. The turkey sausage breakfast was WAY overpriced.

A really big breakfast that you can share — if you only want to eat a regular portion. The portions are American sizes. Quality for the food is great and breakfast is served into the afternoon.
Note it is a busy spot and the entrance is small. Do not let it turn you away if you enjoy breakfast meal. They also have lunch/​dinner options too!

I had heard great things about this place, and my friend suggested it for breakfast
Ordered the banana french toast
It was basically banana’s on top of french toast, which was rather hard and difficult to slice into
Hashbrowns were very tasty, and the service was great
Perhaps I ordered the wrong dish? Anyway it’s a good place, but not worth the hype

Assiette généreuse, le café est très bon! Essayez la spécialité de NF le touton! Décor eccletique!

I always enjoy coming here. So cozy and unique.
The servers and staff are always so friendly and the food is always cooked to perfection. I like to call it my little getaway.

Lobster claws with eggs, hash browns & toast, how can you go wrong? You can’t! Everything was cooked to perfection. Coffee ok. Service was a bit slow but there were lots of tables all at once. Décor kitschy but needs cleaning.

It was really crowded and the booths were tiny and uncomfortable but the food was delicious

Almost every week I come here to have Breakfast with my boyfriend. We love here!

Cozy place for brunch. Had the Touton bacon egg sandwich which was delicious. The serving is large and so is the mug of coffee. They were very busy. Great service and the server even apologized for taking so long.

Took a bit for the waitress to take our order but when she did she was very friendly. The hostess was super nice and made the wait for the waitress more enjoyable. Once the order was in the food came out super quick and it was delicious. I’d like to mention that the hash browns were the best I’ve tasted. Would recommend this place to anyone.

Great breakfast fare
Small booths for four people but great for less
Staff was friendly and the place was always busy

Steps from the hotels on Duckworth and Water Streets, we started our long days of touring at this kitschy, charming breakfast spot. Despite the daunting long lines, we were always seated promptly, although do expect slightly cramped quarters (and no A/​C like most places in St John’s). The portions, like the giant mugs of coffee, are massive and a reasonable price. For example, when you order the «side of fruit» you’ll get the Noah’s Arc of bowls, with 2 of everything. I ate from my fruit leftovers for 3 days.
If you’re available for breakfast during the week, you can get a heaping plate of eggs, hash browns, toast and 2 fresh crab claws for 12 dollars. Let me clarify… 12 measly dollars. They also have an array of lobster dinners we didn’t get a chance to try, mainly because after a breakfast at The Bagel Café you’ll still be full at dinner time.

Newfoundland Benedict is amazing! Good coffee in big mugs. Great atmosphere. Great staff. Highly recommended.

What’s a group of guys to do when they’re hungover in St. John’s after a few solid nights of pre-​wedding drinking? Well first of all you sleep in until 11am. But after you finally get yourself together and wash off the smell of alcohol and shame, you regroup and head to the Bagel Café.
Conveniently located on Duckworth St, Bagel Café is centrally located and a hop skip and a step from the heart of downtown, but has easier parking than Water Street and the street as a whole has its own interesting offerings of restaurants and shops. When we all arrived we had a slight wait for tables since there were several of us, but it just gave us all the more time to (a) recover some of our wits before interacting with other members of society and (b) take in the very Newfieclectic décor of the restaurant. With wooden booths that lent a homey feel, to the nick nacks covering the walls and the various nooks and crannies of the place, it was a lot for the eyes to take in, but not in a garish way like say Jungle Jim’s.
We had a couple tables pushed together for us upstairs and were promptly seen to by a friendly and patient waitress. We got some drinks to rehydrate and/​or caffeinate us while we perused their very large menu. The breakfast menu alone had sections for waffles, pancakes, big breakfasts, omelettes, quesadillas (…yeah, I know) and potato bakes, which are the equivalent of skillet meals on Smitty’s menu. Extra kudos to BC for having this bad boy breakfast menu available all day! The words «all day breakfast» are like an angelic chorus’ calorie-​filled song to me, drawing me into their golden brown, deep fried gates. There’s also a very noticeable Newfoundlander slant to the menu as well, which adds a nice flare to the menu beyond your typical breakfast fare. There are plenty of breakfast dishes with baked beans, bologna, Cheez Whiz™, various forms of fish, and something I’d never heard of before — toutons. As I would find out at another restaurant, these are lumps of fried dough, basically a doughnut without any glaze, filling, or hole in the middle. A couple other interesting side notes about the menu are that you can make any order of hashbrowns a poutine for $ 2.99 (breakfast poutine!!! *Mind and heart explode*) and they have no shame in serving you a bottle of Aunt Jemima if you order pancakes or waffles. Real maple syrup? Pfffft.
I wasn’t feeling particularly adventurous that morning (or was it afternoon at this point?) so I stuck with the big breakfasts section of the menu and quickly decided upon «The Weekender» which comes with three eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns and toast. Once we all got our orders in, it seemed like we didn’t have to wait too long given the size of our group and how busy the restaurant as a whole was. Respect. Wanting some rich, runny yolks on my eggs I had gotten them sunny side up and while they’re cooked to what I would classify as medium, there’s still plenty of delicious yolk for dipping my toast in. Little packets of Kraft jam will forever be ignored by me when I have the option of eggs to serve as my condiment instead. The sausage sticks out from the plate as it’s readily apparent that it isn’t your typical small breakfast sausage link, this thing is a full sized sausage; while it has a good flavour, it could use some more of whatever the magical combination of seasonings are in regular breakfast sausages. The bacon is crispy and bacon-​tastic as ever, and I even lucked into a friend’s bacon when he was too full to eat it. Yes, believe it or not, that apparently happens to people. Not me, but people. My only gripe about the meal, and this applies to nearly every restaurant that serves breakfast, a glass of OJ does not cost the same or more than a 2L carton does in the store. Cut it out.
All in all, it was a very solid breakfast and hit the spot in the way that spot needed to be hit. If I’m back in town and looking for breakfast grub, you’ll find me here exploring more of the menu.