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| - I'm a native New Yorker and can be quite high-maintenance when it comes to a bagel shop, so you may want to take this review with a grain of salt. Or it may give you insight. Either way...
The bagels themselves are awesome. Barring visits back home and care packages my mother sends, I seriously have not had a bagel this good since I moved to Wisconsin 9 years ago. They even have salt bagels, which can be hard to find.
However, let's do a little comparison, shall we?
http://tinyurl.com/ysa7fk (NY Bagel shop menu)
http://tinyurl.com/2bwvra (Gotham menu)
Gotham is WAY overpriced compared to what I'm used to in a normal NYC or Long Island bagel shop. I was absolutely shocked at the prices. To give a few examples:
--The Williamsburg is $9.50 at Gotham vs. $5.69 for the equivalent in NY. And both places use Boar's Head meats, so that's not the issue. The amount of meat is definitely not the issue, either. You get more in NY.
--My favorite, a sesame bagel with scallion cream cheese, is $3.00 at Gotham, vs. $2.16 for the equivalent in NY. And I shouldn't even say "equivalent," because the amount of cream cheese a real NYC or LI bagel shop will put on a bagel puts Gotham to shame - so at Gotham, you pay more for less.
--For a bagel with plain cream cheese and a 12oz. coffee, you'll pay a total of $3.75 vs. the $2.07 breakfast special in NY.
--The flavored cream cheeses (particularly the scallion) are a little runny and also quite overpriced - $6.25 for 8oz vs about $3.60 in NY. Granted, it's made from "premium artisanal" cream cheese, but there's just not enough of a taste difference to justify the price difference. They have the flavor absolutely nailed, but for that price, I'll make my own.
--Any self-respecting bagel shop in NY trying to charge $9.50 a dozen will throw in at least 6 bagels free, sometimes more. The one my mom frequents does buy-a-dozen-get-six for $7.95, and buy-a-dozen-get-a-dozen on Sundays.
--And come on - $3.00 for a cup of fresh-squeezed OJ? $1.50 for a can of soda? Try a $1.39 pint of Tropicana or YooHoo or a 75-cent can of soda.
The day my husband and I went in together, we spent a grand total of $40 for items what would have cost around $25 total at a shop on Long Island. And to top it all off, I ordered another container of cream cheese to go before we left, and the girl behind the counter took the orders of at least 4 more people before she got my container of cream cheese. That would NOT have flown in NY. I've been told that the owner was born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn. If this is true, he needs to get back to his roots and stop gouging his customers.
Despite the drawbacks, the bagels will bring me back - but only as an occasional treat. If you're a native NYer like I am, you'll fall in love with the bagels, but the prices are just crap.
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