Brownstein's Deli & Bakery

Brownstein's Deli & Bakery is a bagel shop and deli on Monroe Avenue. As of August 2022 their retail operations are limited to curbside pick-up. Orders are accepted by phone Sunday - Friday 8:00AM to 11:00AM - see the website for deadlines.

Brownstein's carries salmon cream cheese, as well as excellent lox, and offers 15 bagels for the price of 12; they're the only source in town for rye bagels. Bialys are not New York City style. Their garlic bagels do have a lot of garlic on them. Cash or check only. Kosher under the supervision of Rabbi Henry Hyman.

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IMHO, the best bagels in town. Their Challah is the best

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2007-02-28 10:55:39   They make a good sandwich. Whether you're Jewish or not, kosher cold cuts are a cut above. —EastSideStephen

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2007-03-23 08:11:42   Love their bagels. The onion is superb. —KimBee

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2007-03-25 07:39:17   Best bagels in Rochester. It amazes me that all of those crappy imposters a stone's throw away from Brownstein's get any business at all. —RochesterGuy

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2007-03-26 18:12:11   Brownsteins sells its frozen dough to O'Bagelos. —KimBee

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2007-03-27 19:42:16   well that explains why I like o'bagelo's —MrPhil

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2007-03-27 22:12:38   Just had their bagels for the first time recently and I didn't care for them. —JoelCornell

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2007-03-30 18:57:16   this place is great . . . I've had the bagels here and also an occasional pastrami sandwich. . . but, they are kosher, which means I always have to ask them to give me the cheese separately — I add it to my sandwich once I get to my car. —GrahamSaathoff

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2007-09-27 14:11:37   Bialy's are the best I have had in town. They make a blueberry bagel that actually tastes like a blueberry bagel should. —MrPhil

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2007-11-08 14:49:04   The best bagels in Rochester. I wish something could compare to H and H or Bagel Boss in the NYC metro, this is the closest thing. Request the potato Kugel or Knish. Always good. —MrRochester

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2008-03-31 19:11:19   Hands down the best bagels in Rochester. —RocGuy14610

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2009-01-08 11:48:04   No question, they have the best bagels I've tasted in Rochester. I've tried 6 other places, and none measure up. Also, the scallion cream cheese is superb —DavidPerlmutter

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2010-06-28 04:58:54   I had some day old bagels from a local grocery store yesterday, wishing I had gone to brownsteins haha, my fondest memory of brownstiens is when my dad would bring home a big bag of day old bagels, first i'd eat them with cream cheese. then when we ran out of that (which in a household of 5 kids and two parents happens quickly) I'd eat them plain, and just take about 10 minutes enjoy the real taste of each bagel. thats the difference of brownstiens, you don't have to toast theses bagel, you don't have to add anything to them if you don't want to. these bagel are the best bagels in town period. —barnabasschickling

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2012-03-29 15:49:37   My grandfather was the treasurer of the bagel bakers local in Brooklyn for several decades. I shop at Brownstein's. —JonGreenbaum

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2012-04-08 09:30:00   A+ Great bagels such nice people too. Only place I know in Rochester the hand slices the salty belly lox. Great place.

—NewtonNola

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2022-06-18 17:21:59   Closing retail operations on July 31; wholesale operation continues. "Tentative plans are in the works to offer a strictly-curbside carry-out service on a limited schedule to be announced in the future." —markjackson