better trip, still huge bagels. decided to try an old-standard instead of something with eggs and it was a big success. had the sliced nova, cream cheese, tomatoes and onions on a toasted sesame bagel. as before, this was huge sandwich, but it was again a very fresh and tasty bagel and everything else was fresh and in nice proportions on what was still a bigger than average version of this breakfast standard. with a big cup of the hazelnut coffee with a pump of simple syrup, this was a very satisfying breakfast. it might be that, for me at least, the key is to stay away from theeggsandwiches. all in all, worth another stop if i'm in the area.
-----03 sep, 2012-----
will need another visit to decide.... the "good": above average bagel for the area, huge 3-egg breakfast sandwich (3-egg "protein" sandwich , with chicken, spinach, mushrooms, tomato, onion and swiss on a toasted everything bagel) for the price, and a lot of flavored coffee's and do-it-yourself coffee add-ins (for us non-coffee-purists).
the "hope it gets better": the molten hot and bone-dryeggand vegetable brick in the middle of a tasty toasted bagel (way too much microwave?) with absolutely no flavor. the lack of utensils if i wanted to deconstruct and eat (ended up having to use/burn my fingers tearing up the unholy-hoteggbrick) and the lack of anything other than ketchup, mustard, and mayo packets anywhere.. no tabasco or texas pete out (seems they do have a stash of tabasco miniatures behind the counter... but they make you ask for it).
i hope they can tweak it a little here and there because i think it could be a nice addition to the area if they're allowed to improve some things and aren't at the mercy of, what appears to be, a very tight franchise.