The story
Liberty Bagels, situated just steps from Penn Station on West 35th Street, has carved a niche as a modern, Instagram-friendly bagel shop in Midtown. With a stellar 4.6-star rating, the spot is best known for its photogenic rainbow bagel and an impressive lineup of 25 cream cheese varieties, earning it a loyal following among tourists and locals alike.
Creator Riccardo Dose stopped by to sample the offerings and declared the savory avocado bagel with salmon, tomato, onion, and capers the standout of the meal. He found the steakwich bagel too salty, while the sweet rainbow bagels—one slathered with peanut butter cream and Nutella, another with birthday cake cream—were delicious but, in his words, "impossibly heavy." For a more classic option, he also tried the bagel with eggs and bacon.
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AI summary of what 5 dish mentions say about the food
The steakwich bagel earns ecstatic praise for its tender, flavorful meat and perfect chewy bagel. Overall, reviewers describe the food as satisfying, hearty, and reliably delicious comfort fare.
“This one is challenging. It has meat, onion, garlic mayo, mozzarella, and the bread is covered in salt crystals — I've never seen bread with salt grains on the outside like this. The meat inside is okay, I like it, but the outside is way too salty. Any filling would be ruined by that salt.”
What creators say
1 creator has covered Liberty Bagels. Most active: Riccardo Dose
- Riccardo DoseLoved
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A modern bagel spot famous for its rainbow bagel and 25 types of cream cheese — the savory avocado bagel was the standout, the steakwich was too salty, and the sweet rainbow bagels were delicious but impossibly heavy.
Dishes mentioned
Bagel con Avocado, Salmone, Pomodoro, Cipolla e Capperi
Wow, this is good! The bread is beautifully warm, toasted fresh. Incredible bread. You can taste every ingredient perfectly — avocado, onion, salmon, tomato, everything. It's fresh too. If they made bagels like this in Italy I'd eat them every day. This is the best one so far.
Steakwich Bagel
This one is challenging. It has meat, onion, garlic mayo, mozzarella, and the bread is covered in salt crystals — I've never seen bread with salt grains on the outside like this. The meat inside is okay, I like it, but the outside is way too salty. Any filling would be ruined by that salt.
Bagel Classico con Uova e Bacon
This is the breakfast bagel. If you eat this you're set for the whole day. Classic bagel — plain bread, eggs, bacon, maybe a sauce. Good. The bread is beautiful, shiny, toasted underneath. This works. But the avocado one is still the best.
Rainbow Bagel con Crema al Burro d'Arachidi e Nutella
Holy cow! This is crazy. The cream is incredible — it tastes like butter, very buttery. I feel like I'm eating when my mom made cakes and I'd steal the batter. I love it a lot. But you can't eat a whole one, you need four people. The bread is amazing too.
Rainbow Bagel con Crema Birthday Cake
This is the real Rainbow. Inside there's a birthday cake flavored cream. It's incredibly squishy. Tastes like the inside of a cheesecake. The flavor is great, but it's the heaviest thing we've ever eaten — a brick. You can't finish this.
