The Great American Bagel Bakery

Friendly staff, very quick. Food was good and reasonably priced for airport food. Will def grab food here again when I have a layover.

Had a toasted sesame bagel with lox and cream at Lambert Airport. I figured it was a pretty safe order. The bagel was super stale and sandwich was worst ever. Would recommend other fare at the airport. The owners need to visit a real bagel shop to understand how bad they are!

2^nd time going here and both times I was not impressed. Very impersonal and border line rude employees. Extremely over priced dried out bagels. Even the cream cheese was disappointing well what little cream cheese there was. $ 9 for a bagel with cream cheese and an orange juice. Never again.

Food is ok. People are RUDE AND ACT LIKE YOUR BOTHERING THEM to make an order. In the airport you get so may choices and this shouldn’t be one of them.

This is really not the place to stop, in my opinion, for a meal. I found the food to be pretty bad and over priced

I’ve attempted to eat here two separate times. The first time the bagel was really stale and honestly just gross. So I thought I would give it another try. It was just as bad the second time around. It’s very over priced for the quality. I would recommend going to one of the restaurants near by it will be around the same price.

Bottom line up front: Food was good. Service was not.
Good:
–They’re generous with cream cheese and the lox, which I liked.
— The ingredients tasted fresh.
— It was quick.
— The price wasn’t too bad considering we were in the airport.
— My cream cheese and lox bagel surprisingly came with a bag of chips or a piece of fruit. I appreciated the healthy option (which I choice after staring longingly at the Doritos for a moment).
Bad:
— The bagel toasts weird. It looks brown on the outside around the edges, but is a bit soggy in the middle. Didn’t like that.
— The girl behind the cash register gave some attitude to the guy in front of me when he kept inching forward with the line. He didn’t stop at the hanging Order Here sign to wait for someone to ask for his order. So when they said who’s next, I didn’t notice him and he didn’t speak up. I think he thought the salads were handled separately, not by the girl doing the made-​to-​order sandwiches. So the cash register girl hold him with a snotty tone that he should have waited at the Order Here sign and that’s why he was now going to hold up the line as she went to prepare his salad. It was really rude.
— Then since mine was done first, I got to the register, and there wasn’t anyone to ring me out. So my order and the woman behind me just waited. This isn’t too big of a deal, but the girl making sandwiches and another girl behind the counter (literally just standing there looking at me) couldn’t ring me up. It was weird.

Food excellent ! Staff was horrible, lazy and unmotivated ! Not trained ! No more of my money folks

Worst breakfast ever. Ordered the St Louis sunrise. It was literally like food from a vending machine. Dried up. I swear the eggs are precooked in an oven or something. Worst part was the bacon. It didn’t look like bacon at all. It was a very hard and brittle disc… thunk giant dried up bacon bit with a chemical taste. I took 2 bites and thew it in the garbage!!!

Worst bagel ever !!! I had the tomazza and it was so dry and stale. The lady didn’t even toast it properly and decided to skimped on the cream cheese.

I’m a New Yorker. I know bagels.
Moved to LA 7 mos ago and haven’t had a great bagel since. Flew to St Louis for a meeting and was starved. Saw this place near baggage claim and thought, «What the heck, I’m desperate.» I didn’t expect much. I was surprised. I ordered a toasted everything with plain cream cheese, tomato and red onion. It. Was. Perfect. Good chew texture, flavorful, lots of onion and tomato and plenty of cream cheese. As good as NYC.
Coffee also fabulous and REAL CREAM with the coffee. Wow.
Because I was so thrilled with their bagels, I ordered 4 untoasted to take to the hotel with me for the four mornings I’ll be in St Louis and they graciously gave me large portions of cream cheese in plastic containers as well, and individually wrapped each bagel in saran wrap and paper to keep them super fresh. Extremely friendly staff.

I have nothing but good things to say about this place. I haven’t had anything bad here. Although I’ve only been here twice, this may be a once a week place for me to try all there yumminess.
I recommend the cinnamon roll.
I hands down recommend there ham and cheese bread thing they have it’s a great breakfast alternative to a sandwich.
Tryout what you want before you purchase :)

When you’ve got an empty tank it does a great job of giving you some fuel. The staff was friendly and made sure your meal was the way you wanted it.
I ordered a turkey panini, it was perfect. Nothing fancy but it was quickly made and delivered to our table.
For an airport restaurant near the baggage claim, I recommend this over the pasta shack next to it.

Good experience. Inexpensive, quick service, friendly people and taste pretty good. I tried the veggie tomazo bagel with veggies inside. I got it extra toasted because the toaster goes too fast and your bagel really doesn’t get toasted the first time around. If you get the veggie tomazo don’t let them microwave it at the end with you veggies inside! Who like to eat hot lettuce? Pretty filling meal and less than $ 5. Can’t beat it especially for being at the airport. I also like their sesame seed bagel with veggie cream cheese. The combination goes amazingly together. If you are at the airport and want a quick bite to eat and wait less than 2 mins for you food, this is the spot! Remember this is before security clearance so if you get your drinks you won’t be able to take them past security. Just giving you a heads up!

The breakfast value here is probably the best in this terminal. You get a large bagel with egg and protein for a few bucks. And it will fill you up.

I wanted to share this story about poor customer service– it was that irritating.
A woman further up in line was paying for her food and she exclaimed «$ 20 for a sandwich?!» Not missing a beat, the cashier said «yes ma’am». Only when the woman behind her said «The menu says $ 10» did they realize they double charged her. The whole line had to wait while they found someone who could refund the charge. After that the poor woman had to wait further for a receipt of her refund for her credit card records. They told her they had to keep the receipt, and when I tried to explain why she needed it, the cashier snapped «Stay out of it». Not sure if this cashier was just slow (she struggled ringing up another customer) or just new, but that’s no way to speak to a customer who was politely inquiring on another person’s behalf. This was an airport so you’re paying for the fast and convenient service, and they clearly missed the first objective.
One star for convenience and an okay bagel.

Stopped by St. Louis for a layover at 8am. Was craving something delicious and first place i passed was here. Went thru the terminal and it was between here and dunkin donuts. I pulled out my phone to Unilocal this place and found pretty good reviews so I decided to try it out. Sooooo disappointed in my fellow Unilocal reviewers right now.
Hands down probably one of the worst bagels I have ever had at a bagel shop. Reminds me of my college days with week old grocery store bagels and not enough cream cheese left in the tub.
I ordered a toasted everything bagel with cream cheese. It was like Ray Charles cut it as the bagel wasn’t cut in half straight at all. I hate it when this happens cause the bagel to cream cheese ratio is just completely off thru out the whole bagel. The everything toppings weren’t consistent as some bites you could have goodness and other bites it was just missing. The bagel wasn’t as chewy as fresh bagels are supposed to be. It seemed dry and stale on the inside with a toasted outside. The cream cheese … I felt like they were running out of cream cheese so they were rationing it out to last for the rest of the day. It was extremely light on the cream cheese which completely ruined it.
I was gonna only give them 1 star, but I must say the employees are extremely efficient and decently friendly. Except for the one that cut and smeared my bagel.
Skip this place and just go to dunkin donuts.

Not a bad place to grab a bagel on your way out of st louis, and a great alternative to the fast food places in the terminal. Great selection of bagels, and some good choices for bagel sandwiches.

I’ve been here too many times not to write a review.
If you’re flying Southwest, I’m pretty sure this is the only non-​fast-​food-​chain in the terminal to get a quick cheap bite.
I always get the same thing — a jalapeño bagel breakfast sandwich (served all day). Nothing fancy, just ham, eggs, and cheese between a jalapeño bagel. It is consistenly satisfying, and the best part is that it’s only 5 bucks. I hate spending tons of money on mediocre food in airports, so I appreciate this place.
The lines always move fast and they’re very efficient here. They also have smoothies and other sandwich choices.

American Bagel Bakery is open ²⁴⁄₇ and the people were super-​friendly, even after everything else in the whole airport was shut down! I enjoyed my long wait here, and was so happy that they were open with delicious food throughout the night!