JoMama's NY Bagels & Coffeehouse

* Update * A couple of hours after eating this breakfast bagel, my stomach started turning. I've now been running to the toilet all day and couldn't even go to the beach thanks to this. Unbelievable. Do not eat this. As someone from NY, you should really stop calling yourself NY Bagels. These bagels are rock hard, it's ridiculous. I got a plain toasted bagel with Sausage, Egg, and Cheese. At least the bagel was still hot by the time I got back to my condo, but it wasn't great. There was a decent amount of cheese and egg was just ok, but half of the sausage was terrible. It was very spicy. I don't like very spicy food. I've never had such spicy sausage anywhere else, let alone only on one side. Was not happy about that rude surprise. Won't be coming back. Very hard to eat such a hard as a rock bagel that is very spicy. But I was starving and had nothing else, so had to eat it.

June 25th @ 2pm. What a shockingly poor establishment all around. If I could give less than one star, I would primarily because the service was THAT bad. The young girl who took our order was downright rude. The others seemed friendlier, but were too busy debating over who should prepare the order to help. The iced coffee was just OK, the frozen drink completely separated within 5 minutes of receiving it. I would NEVER recommend this place to anyone, even to people I dislike. Horrible.

I have only had one thing there so this is a rating of their chicken salad on a "New York bagel". I am not sure what about this bagel makes it a NY bagel. I am from NY and it was not what I expected. Their bagels are on the small side and not particularly soft. They did not have tuna salad which I thought was super weird for a bagel shop. So I got chicken salad. I asked for a bagel scooped out and toasted with chicken salad. They scooped one half of the bagel, I don't know if that's a MA thing but I expected they'd scoop out both halves so was bummed I had to take the sandwich apart to do it myself but I already had to take the sandwich apart to take off the lettuce I didn't ask for and remove the cranberries. 1/3 of the chicken salad was sweetened cranberries with a little mayo mixed in. It was inedible unless you're 6, it might be tasty, super sweet. And it cost $9 and change, maybe $9.99 I can't remember. I thought it was really expensive for a bagel and when I saw what I paid for I was really bummed. They might make other good things but my lunch was a bummer. I don't recommend it.

Bagels are rock hard. Been here a couple times every time is the same, takes forever. When asking for extra cream cheese since every time we go it’s the thinnest layer, they charge you and don’t change the amount they give you. Got food and waited an extra 15 minutes for drinks. Staff was nice but would much rather go to bagels and beyond for soft bagels and wait the extra time.

The whole order took about 15 mins even though I was the only customer and all I got was a latte and a bagel. The coffee took especially long and when it was finally ready she handed me the cup with lots of paper towels wrapped around it and said “careful it might be hot.” It was definitely not hot. It was barely lukewarm and tasted very bad and watery. I didn’t want to be rude so I just said thanks and left but I threw the coffee out immediately which I’ve never done with coffee before. The bagel was fine though the egg seemed like it was made from powdered egg mix. Overall not worth it at all and I think the staff need’s better training on how to use the coffee machine

What a disappointing experience. I paid $10 for a sandwich called The Godfather, which had an embarrassingly paltry amount of vegetarian ingredients. Shame on me for not reading the menu more closely and understanding that this did not include Italian cold cuts, but shame on the establishment for offering me a thin slice of tomato atop a scraggly slice of mozzarella cheese adorned with a few stray basil leaves shoved between two slices of ciabatta. I imagine the balsamic glaze must have been applied with an atomizer. My mama didn't raise no fool, but apparently JoMama's did.

Serviceable. 6 variants of better than average bagels, staff friendly and efficient, “hot mocha latte” tasted like Swiss Miss cocoa mix. Music playing upbeat, in line with shop's Jamaican theme, local artist paintings on the walls, some religious signage but nothing over the top. Shop exudes personality. Convenient, but prices higher than charged in shop for both drink and bagels compared to what was on website menu off.