Do you enjoy eating out, too? Sitting with friends, a date, or your spouse over a cup of coffee and a delicious treat, chatting and laughing carelessly? When planning to go out, we seek a place which offers a unique atmosphere, a warm and friendly place which leaves us pleasantly satisfied.

Bagel Cafe is a coffee shop which combines a restaurant, a deli and a catering service. It is located at the German Colony in Jerusalem. At Bagel Cafe they offer delicious dishes prepared specially for you, on the spot, with the best ingredients. Their homely ambience is inviting to all - families, couples, or individuals - all are always lovingly welcome. You can enjoy their cuisine on spot or at home - However you prefer.

Bagel Cafe combines a large, comfortable coffee shop with intimacy guaranteed by owners who also actively serve as hosts. This combination is what provides for the unique experience we offer.”

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

The foundations to Bagel Cafe are rooted in the life stories of Shimrit and Tomer Touti, a tale into which bagels are inseparably intertwined…

Get to know Bagel Cafe’s owners: Even when first meeting, at the age of fifteen, both Tomer and Shimrit already knew what their desired vocation was – the restaurant business. “Even at home we bake together and so we practice restauranteering with great passion. It is what we like to do, our one special thing” – they say. And so, once they encountered the bagel it was only a matter of time before a strong relationship was officially established. “As students, fresh out of our parents’ houses, we lived in Tel Aviv in a small flat over a bagel shop. For three years we ate there, every day a slightly different recipe”. Tomer and Shimrit continued to encounter bagels wherever they went even after graduation, especially in the United States where they lived for a long time.

The U.S. is known as the bagel’s homeland, this is where it is classically prepared and served the old-fashioned way. After many years of working at and managing restaurants and coffee shops, the couple decided it was time for them to open their own place, the one they had always dreamt of.

“It is because we consumed bagels for so many years that we know all their secrets” — Tomer humorously testifies. We decided to create a place where we would sell the authentic, real bagel, just like the ones sold in American delis for generations. This is how Bagel Cafe was born.

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED A REAL BAGEL?

Their bagels are prepared on the spot, at a quality unavailable before in Israel. Bagel Cafe is the only place in Israel where genuine American bagels, bagels of the highest international standards, are sold along with familiar dishes from around the world — pastas and lasagnas, rustic breakfast feasts as well as native Israeli dishes such as Shakshuka.

One of the main concerns so far as bagels go is freshness, that is why all dishes at Bagel Cafe are prepared on demand and your bagel is brought to you straight from the baking oven. The combination of the traditional way of baking bagels with modern and inventive cuisine creates an exciting  experience of diverse, rich flavors.

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Review 2/17/16

Review 11/25/15 (Isaac Bergman)