Detroit Institute of Bagels

Ann K 2 years ago

Ordered online on a Sunday early afternoon. The two sandwiches were ready at pickup time, and they were packed beautifully! The workers even numbered the sandwiches on the receipt which was stapled to the bag, and then numbered the sandwich wrappers in the bag. This made it so much easier. The attention to detail didn’t stop there. The bread was fantastic and the sandwiches were delicious! There is a cute park outside for seating. Will definitely be going back!

Quintin 2 years ago

Fresh bagels, warm welcomes, and terrific atmosphere! Would recommend if your a breakfast person; looking to get some work done with an economical meal deal; looking for a chill spot to start your day. The team is always smiley, cheerful, and eager to make conversation and offer thoughtful suggestions and recommendations to make sure your order is too your liking. This is a terrific place to focus and fuel up; which they encourage with their awesome $5 work-day deal! Which includes a bagel + cream cheese and a drink (OJ (fresh pressed) or coffee). Not a half bagel either a whole bagel and smeared with a cream cheese of your choice. DIB is a regular work/read spot especially since they make the bagels fresh (which you can see sometimes!) so it has great smells, delightful flavors, and tasty cream cheese flavors too.

Melanie Wisdom 3 years ago

Even though we got here late and a lot of the yummies were sold out...we were able to experience the matzah ball soup, Turkey, Bacon and Avocado on sourdough and my Le Rouge on a Challah roll and also took home the last plain bagels and 3 of the cinnamon raisin bagel. Will be back earlier next time.

Chelsea Miller 3 years ago

I was here on a Monday morning and had a really good experience. There is a ton of seating, both for groups and individuals. Only one wall has 2 outlets so if you need to plug in and it's crowded it might be hard. But that's the constraints of the building. I really hope they do outdoor seating when it gets warmer, the courtyard looks so inviting! It was clean, service was good, food was great, wifi was free and fast. I was here for a few hours working and saw someone cleaning tables pretty quick after people left, and the bathroom was clean and well supplied. It definitely didn't get crowded, but it usually wasn't totally empty. There are 2 bathroom stalls, and I don't think the bathroom doors or any of the front doors have an automatic door opener. I really appreciate that the music wasn't super loud lol, I could hear myself think. And in the industrial styled space it could start to echo badly. Plus it wasn't top 40 lol I walked here, so no comment on parking. I had a black coffee for 3 dollars and change, and a toasted lew bagel sandwich, it had just the right amount of saltiness from the capers. An appropriate amount of salmon for $14. I haven't tried the bread but I'm exc

MB 3 years ago

We visited on a Saturday afternoon. As others have noted, the first thing we noticed was a line of parked cars totally blocking the bike lane. Menu was not posted anywhere on the walls, but there were small laminated menus at the front. I found the menu confusing: I asked for lox and midway through being rung up I thought to ask if I was being rung up for the dish lox with onions, capers, cream cheese etc or just salmon on a bagel. They were ringing me up for salmon on a bagel. I get that lox is a name for the salmon, but if you ordered a meatball sub would you expect three meatballs on a kaiser roll or a sandwich with marinara sauce and mozzarella? Maybe it's just me. Lox is called "The Lew Silver Sammie" on their menu, FYI. The sandwich was very good-the salmon was great and they had a lemony cream cheese that was really nice. We ordered coffee (not listed on the menu FYI but they have drip coffee) without room for cream and got coffee with room for cream; others have noted similar quality control issues. Most of the open tables that we saw were filthy and my spouse had to clean with a napkin and water. The physical space was nice with plenty of seating. If these are just grow