Strathmore Bagels

Horrible. This place used to be good but idk what happened. Stopped in today to pick up fresh lox with cream cheese which costs $ 8.50 (not cheap considering other places are about $ 7 for same).and what I got was a bagel with one thin little slice of lox and barely there melted off cream cheese. This comes with a salad which I chose rice pudding.disgusting.that was watered down milk with no flavor and no rice. and a pickle. Never coming here again was still hungry and felt totally robbed!

Ahhhhh Long Island Bagels. As a person who visits LI about 2x a year, I always make sure I make a stop for some bagels. This place was a recommendation from a Ronkonkoma native.
The bagels were Fantastic, and rather big! The service was great and the prices were modest. The green olive cream cheese was also awesome.
Go in confidence!

Had a seven dollar egg sandwich the bacon was cold they do microwave the bacon and the cheese was not even melted the line was very long the service is very poor will never come back here again. There are so many better bagel places close by I don’t see why all these people are here.

They microwave there bacon and who knows what else. Your paying for freshly made food. I don’t even microwave at home… I think that’s laziness. It was too expensive for such low quality food and service.

Amazing food n service, very expensive though. An egg sandwich on a bagel is about $ 7. Wide variety of cream cheese and amazing sandwiches. Just be prepared to spend $ 30 for lunch 2 peopke which is alot for a deli

Killer bagels and breakfast items. Been going here since high school. They have a wide selection for both breakfast and lunch. Def worth it if you’re in that area.

3 hairs in my bagel this morning. Maybe your employees should wear hairnets. I’ll never go back here again

Hands down the best bagels on the island! Second only to bagels I’ve had in Brooklyn. Great selection with great breakfast sandwiches, awesome selection of lunch menu items, as well as salads. Also one of the best chicken salads in existence. Egg salad is spot on as well.

I honestly don’t understand all the love for this place. They’re getting an extra star for the décor — this place is 1.5 stars at best, when a run-​of-​the-​mill bagel join on LI would usually start with a base 3.
Free coffee with a breakfast? Yeah, every place has that. And the answer to «how do you mess up an egg sandwich?» apparently is to put it on a Stathmore bagel. School ties and fond remembrances be damned: their bagels just don’t taste good. Too airy, too crispy, too thin… It’s like someone made an extra-​competent batch of Lender’s frozens, and that ain’t exactly high praise.
Most other places are far better, but Strathmore benefits from one thing: a captive audience. If there were literally any other bagel store in the area, I’d go there. Instead, I eat cereal at home now. Sure, it’s bland and routine, but seeing as that’s no different than a Strathmore bagel, I’d much rather enjoy watching TV in my home for 10 minutes than stare at a line of customer’s backs.

I really like this Deli. Its pretty big and nicely decorated. A lot of seating too.
Their Balsamic Grilled Chicken Wrap w/​veggies is good and so is the Turkey Chipotle wrap. Nice that they come with a side salad and pickle too (macaroni salad is pretty decent). Pricing is about $ 8.50 I think for wrap. Really not that bad for a deli, especially compared to some other ones around the area.
Haven’t tried anything else here yet but I plan on trying some other choices soon.

This Strathmore location has everything you would expect from the name (I don’t think they’ve franchised, but they have quite a few locations in the surrounding areas.) I have been to the Ronkonkoma location more frequently than I’ve visited this one, but when I did try the egg sammies here, I was not at all disappointed, also how can you go wrong with a place that includes a free coffee with a breakfast menu item? Reasonably priced too, with the total being under 6 dollars, I’m glad to have this place nearby. Their staff was up beat and friendly, I like to see communication between the employees and they were all working together very well (this is also the case at the Ronkonkoma location.)
Overall I’m completely supportive of this location and the Strathmore brand.

long long ago I myself, was a specialty cream cheese and salad preparer for a bagel
store which shall remain nameless… and my cream cheeses and salads were the bomb biggs trust me.
Whats the big hype about Strathmore bagels anyway? Is it that the building and décor is pretty because it sure is. Very contemporary… but I don’t slather décor on my bagels. and the live music on Sunday morning doesn’t change the fact that there is a long slow line to the door.
This is my thing, Im a Native New Yorker so I know well what bagel store items should look and taste like by birthright.
The bagels… they are OKAY. Nothing to complain about but also nothing to do cartwheels over.
The veggie cream cheese is a fail. Its basically a cheap brand of cream cheese (you can totally tell) with shredded carrots and perhaps 2 tiny bits of scallion per ¼lb of cream cheese for $ 3 a ¼lb. Not impressed. The bacon herb cream cheese is the same cheap cream cheese with bacon bits. gross soft bacon bits.
Maybe I am a cream cheese snob… when I used to make mine, I actually used good cream cheese, crumbled REAL bacon, and an assorted mix of fresh herbs– chives, parsley ect. was so good.
This place falls short on their stuff. To be honest it is always the little hole in a wall, mom and pop bagel shops that are the butt kickers in this elusive NY breakfast genre.
Fancy booths and feature walls don’t cut it in these parts, The strathmore chain is comparable to dunkin donuts bagels and cream cheese, minus the super coffee. Falls short in the eyes of a bagel B like me.
One more thing that irked me (actually 2 things)
1) they have all of the real orange juice products in a small kind of hidden case near the front door. There is another case all the way down near the register which takes 20 minutes to work your way up to on the line. When you finally reach that amidst the chaos, you realize there is no OJ in that case, only the little tropicana ones that remain good even unrefrigerated for
months and the all snapples, ice teas ect. no fresh orange juices up there.
I wanted to see the fresh squeezed, and the pints but because they were located back past the sea of people looking mad on line behind me, I opted out of buying OJ there.
2) While waiting on the long crowded line I heard the women working behind the counter snapping at the newer ladies very loudly several times. I heard one bark at one of the younger girls «Ya supposta ask the Custama if theres anything else he wants!!» (yes said just like that)
meanwhile I thought that the young lady had been very polite and did everything right.
The girl who served me was polite and did a great job. I guess you could say that unwarranted micro managing is obvious to the line of customers. Bad business if you ask me.
Honestly, in my personal opinion your better off elsewhere, this is long Island for pete’s sake… heres a tip: Look for crappy little places that say: HOT BAGELS with a little pic of flames. Its usually fool proof-​A chain is a chain is a chain Strathmore, thats just what you are.

I was told by Barry the owner that she no longer wanted my business.
Rumor had it that Barry has got some mental issues. So it’s only reasonable that she would hire the same kind of people to help manage and operate her business.
My Story: There was an item missing from my order when I called to claim the error, I was told I would be compensated for the inconvenience. But then denied that was ever offered to me, having been called a liar and having the issue be treated as a joke by being laughed at like it was some sort of game. (Who Has Time For That?!? Better off they no longer want my business, I wouldn’t want to give it to a bunch of circus clowns anyway.

A decent bagel place in what appears to be the middle of nowhere.
We were hungry after shopping nearby and this appeared to be the only thing open. Granted we arrived at 1:30 and they close at 2 on Saturdays but they allowed us to sit and finish our meal. The staff is friendly but a bit scattered. Too many people taking orders, too many people running the register, and an employee who couldn’t for the life of him figure out the soda bottles in the fridge. We ended up getting a turkey BLT on a bialy with a soda. 2 sandwiches and 2 sodas for $ 20…Not really a steal, especially considering where they’re located.
The sandwiches were just okay. The bialys were delicious but the bacon and turkey were mediocre, at best. The side of macaroni salad was the real winner here. After they locked the door, the employees had a good system for getting everything closed up for the day. When we went to leave, soda boy refused to help us unlock the door, however, another employee was more than helpful in doing so. It’s not a BAD place but it could also be a lot better since there isn’t any competition in the area.

I grew up eating bagels here all my life! I just love them and the place is nicely organized and labeled. I usually get the egg everything bagel with vegetable cream cheese. There is plenty of areas to sit down and enjoy your breakfast. Sometimes there is live music too. The staff is okay but I do love their bagels!

I used to really like this deli. Sure, they’re overpriced, but their food was tasty. Unfortunately, every single time I order from here, something is wrong. They NEVER get my order right, one time they made it 3 times. And when it is right, there’s either a hair in it (happened at least twice) or the food is not good (I’ve been given bad tomatoes). What it boils down to is their staff doesn’t pay attention and worse, doesn’t care. I do not want to spend 30 minutes waiting for deli food made wrong. I recommend Cooky’s on Church street instead. They’re reliable, have a delicious hot lunch and salad bar (this place has neither), and much more reasonably priced.

To think… this place used to be where it’s at for Bagels & Bialys. Now. meh not so much.
Yesterday went and got a flagel and brought home a couple of bialys. I have to say my love for Strathmore has came and gone. I used to love when my mom said to me when I was a kid «let’s take a ride to Strathmore…» I knew I was always in for a treat because I used to love their egg bagels and their bialys. Put it this way. my aunt from Nassau used to come out here and want Bialys from Strathmore! Now ughhhghhg. WHY?! What the heck happened Strathmore?!
Flagel was an everything that just lacked the punch of all the flavors of an everything flagel. Bialy tasted like an enlarged bialy with bagel consistency and just chewy and overall doughy. I know I love a good bagel once in a while with the doughy but when I want a bialy… I WANT A BIALY! You know the light fluffy disk thing? Yeah. not some enlarged disk that I felt like I was a cow chewing on this morning.
I don’t know man. I just don’t know… maybe I’ll be back but for now I think I’ll stick to Nesconset Bagel Café. Besides. its 5 minutes from my house and much better than Strathmore at the present time.

Soup is really hot, according to my lunch group.
The bagels are always fresh and the toppings have never disappointed.

My favourite bagel place. The bagels are soft and fresh. There are so many choices to choose from. I get the turkey BLT it’s awesome. The cream cheese is great if you like a lot of cream cheese.

I had five or six trips to the island, and unfortunately, this was the closest place to get a bagel sambo to where I was staying.
Bagels: Meh (were they fresh? not sure! The egg and cheese portion was just meh, as well. I was spoiled living next to Bagels on the Square on West 4^th st in Manhattan)
Service: Even more meh
Seating area: Very nice… in fact, one of the nicest of any deli I’ve been in. I enjoyed my meh bagel, served to me without consequence, in comfortable and serene surroundings.
It’ll do in a pinch… it’s certainly better than any bagel sandwich you’ll get from DD… although the coffee makes it a wash.