Vol. 4, No.10, October 2008
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Breakfast of Champions
Bagel Café serves up gourmet basics
Half-neighborhood deli and half-hip eatery, the Bagel Café opened its doors in 1996, and has since become one of Las Vegas’s most beloved restaurants, mostly due to its namesake. The Bagel Café’s bagels are made the old-fashioned way—boiled—on-site, and come in a variety of flavors. Combined with the café’s famed whipped cream cheese, the restaurant has upped the ante for this breakfast staple.
The Bagel Café offers mainstream bagels like plain, sesame and asiago, but the restaurant stands out with its specialties—jalapeño cheddar, super egg and spinach and feta are original without being overwhelming. The cream cheeses are concocted to perfectly complement each type of bagel, from sweet to savory—raisin with cinnamon raisin walnut cream cheese, garlic with garlic cheddar cream cheese and every combination in between.
The menu also offers the usual morning meal favorites, such as omelets (mushroom and cheese, spinach and feta, veggies and more), egg sandwiches and waffles, but in typical New York fashion, the Bagel Café also serves such East Coast classics as Nova benedict and potato pancakes with sour cream and applesauce. Many items can also be ordered a la carte. Fans of the seafood brunch will love the platters of bagels, cream cheese and smoked fish, as well as the fresh lox.
Though the restaurant draws customers mainly due to its breakfast options, the Bagel Café also supplies lunch entrées, like the specialty matzoh ball soup, and a plethora of sandwiches, from basics like pastrami and tuna salad to originals such as Hebrew National salami and grilled knockwurst.
For those who want bagels for lunch, the café offers pizza bagels with grilled chicken and sundried tomato, pepperoni, veggies and more.
The deli side of the restaurant supplies everything from fresh meats to whitefish salad, and a wide selection of pastries (including a New York transplant, the famous black and white cookie). You’ll often find yourself browsing the deli/bakery selections while waiting to be seated on a busy weekend morning—very few can successfully resist making a purchase before eating breakfast.
And breakfast is clearly the genre du jour. On a Sunday morning, every table you see is topped with baskets of bagels, with clusters of families and friends enjoying fresh cream cheese and cups of coffee. You may even find yourself seated next to Mayor Oscar Goodman, who is reputed to be a fan of the restaurant.
Whether you want to dine in with loved ones or pick up a bag of bagels with enough cream cheese to feed a small country, the Bagel Café is your one-stop shop. Not counting any miscellaneous items you pick up in the deli, a meal for two will cost about $20—a price well worth the hearty portions and delicious bagels that are served with most entrées.
Patrons and workers at the South Point and Suncoast casinos can also enjoy the selections supplied by the Bagel Café at South Point’s Del Mar Deli and Suncoast’s Bagel Café Express.
Bagel Café
301 N. Buffalo Dr.
Hours: Monday 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday-Friday 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
