Where to Get a Great Bagel in the Twin Cities (2024)

Asa’s Bakery

From sesame to chocolate rye — and even bialys

by Yoshina Okamoto and Justine Jones Updated Mar 23, 2023, 1:26pm CDT

Share this story

• Share this on Facebook
• Share this on Twitter
• Share All sharing options

Share All sharing options for: Where to Get a Great Bagel in the Twin Cities

• Pocket
• Flipboard
• Email

| Asa’s Bakery

St. Paul Bagelry is a local favorite, known for its wide variety of bagels — everything from asiago to multi-grain honey — with just the right amount of chewiness. Keep it simple with a salt bagel or experiment with more complex flavors, like a sun-dried tomato bagel topped with olive pimento cream cheese. There are no wrong answers.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

St. Paul Bagelry

A St. Paul institution, Cecil’s Deli has been serving sandwiches, soups, and bagels since 1949. The bagel and egg sandwich is a breakfast combo that’s hard to beat: a toasty, buttery bagel sandwiching a fried egg and house-made pastrami topped with molten cheese.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Artist-turned-baker Asa Diebolt opened his cozy bakery in 2019 after running as a farmer’s market stand for several years; he moved into a bigger space in the Nokomis neighborhood in 2022. Morning customers from across the Twin Cities flock to Asa’s for fresh New York-style bagels or bialys — the bagel’s roasted, onion-filled cousin —with a whole selection of smears and toppings, from whitefish to cream cheese mixed with chive blossoms and radishes.

• Open in Google Maps

Asa’s Bakery

Megan Berray-Larsen’s new pop-up is making a mark on the local bagel scene with outside-the-box flavors like honey rosemary, pesto, and cacio e pepe. For a sweeter bite, keep an eye out for rotating flavors like chocolate rye. Put in an order online for pick-up or delivery (Mogi doesn’t have a physical location at the moment) and note that these bagels sell out fast, so keep an eye on Instagram for new order dates.

• Open in Google Maps

Mogi Bagel

St. Paul Bagelry’s second location is on south Nicollet Avenue, just off I-35W.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Pastry chef Shawn McKenzie’s Turkist bagels — a.k.a. simit — have a unique twisted shape, and are coated with toasted sesame seeds. These bagels have a lighter, less chewy texture than your average New York-style bagel, and are lovely with a cool smear of labneh and za’atar.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Set in the heart of the North Loop neighborhood, Rise has made a splash in the Twin Cities culinary scene by combining an old-fashioned approach to bagel making with organic ingredients. Grab a rosemary bagel with scallion cream cheese, or try something a little more adventurous, like the Artisan, which is loaded with bacon, havarti, rosemary Butter, and apple mustard.Rise has great vegan smears, too.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Rise Bagel

Hark! Cafe has achieved quite the feat in making a gluten-free bagel. And not just one, in fact: an array of plain, cinnamon raisin, and everything bagels, to balance the sweet with the savory. Order them by the four-pack for pick-up at the downtown cafe.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Hark! Cafe

St. Paul Bagelry is a local favorite, known for its wide variety of bagels — everything from asiago to multi-grain honey — with just the right amount of chewiness. Keep it simple with a salt bagel or experiment with more complex flavors, like a sun-dried tomato bagel topped with olive pimento cream cheese. There are no wrong answers.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

St. Paul Bagelry

A St. Paul institution, Cecil’s Deli has been serving sandwiches, soups, and bagels since 1949. The bagel and egg sandwich is a breakfast combo that’s hard to beat: a toasty, buttery bagel sandwiching a fried egg and house-made pastrami topped with molten cheese.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Artist-turned-baker Asa Diebolt opened his cozy bakery in 2019 after running as a farmer’s market stand for several years; he moved into a bigger space in the Nokomis neighborhood in 2022. Morning customers from across the Twin Cities flock to Asa’s for fresh New York-style bagels or bialys — the bagel’s roasted, onion-filled cousin —with a whole selection of smears and toppings, from whitefish to cream cheese mixed with chive blossoms and radishes.

• Open in Google Maps

Asa’s Bakery

Megan Berray-Larsen’s new pop-up is making a mark on the local bagel scene with outside-the-box flavors like honey rosemary, pesto, and cacio e pepe. For a sweeter bite, keep an eye out for rotating flavors like chocolate rye. Put in an order online for pick-up or delivery (Mogi doesn’t have a physical location at the moment) and note that these bagels sell out fast, so keep an eye on Instagram for new order dates.

• Open in Google Maps

Mogi Bagel

St. Paul Bagelry’s second location is on south Nicollet Avenue, just off I-35W.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Pastry chef Shawn McKenzie’s Turkist bagels — a.k.a. simit — have a unique twisted shape, and are coated with toasted sesame seeds. These bagels have a lighter, less chewy texture than your average New York-style bagel, and are lovely with a cool smear of labneh and za’atar.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Set in the heart of the North Loop neighborhood, Rise has made a splash in the Twin Cities culinary scene by combining an old-fashioned approach to bagel making with organic ingredients. Grab a rosemary bagel with scallion cream cheese, or try something a little more adventurous, like the Artisan, which is loaded with bacon, havarti, rosemary Butter, and apple mustard.Rise has great vegan smears, too.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Rise Bagel

Hark! Cafe has achieved quite the feat in making a gluten-free bagel. And not just one, in fact: an array of plain, cinnamon raisin, and everything bagels, to balance the sweet with the savory. Order them by the four-pack for pick-up at the downtown cafe.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Hark! Cafe

• The Hottest New Restaurants in Minneapolis and St. Paul Right Now, June 2024
• 15 Budget-Friendly Restaurants in the Twin Cities
• 9 Mall of America Restaurants That Are Actually Good