New York-style bagels, arepas, and empanadas? That’s what this Venezuelan spot in Kennesaw is serving on its menu. While regulars swear by the arepas here, there’s equal praise served up for the bagels at Sunny’s, too. Bagel favors here range from sesame, asiago, and egg to cinnamon raisin, jalapeno, and everything. Bagels can come with schmear or as a sandwich.

With locations near the Galleria in Cobb County and in Duluth (and three more metro Atlanta locations in the works,) 101 Bagel Cafe has become a popular spot for bagels and bagel sandwiches over the years. The New York-style water bagels from this shop come topped with schmear, hummus, or even peanut butter. But it’s the bagel sandwiches here that bring folks in, including a corned beef reuben, turkey, bacon, and cheese bagel melt, and an egg and cheese bagel done five ways.

Bagelicious has been serving up deli classics for over 30 years now. And for many New York transplants, the food and bagels are a taste of home. There are plenty of fresh bagels to choose from at Bagelicious topped with lox, whitefish salad, tomatoes and onions, and caper and scallion schmear. Don’t expect to find fancy bagel flavors. Bagelicious keeps it old school. Make sure to also try the knishes, matzah ball soup, and meaty pastrami and corned beef sandwiches, too. Kosher items available.

With locations in Sandy Springs and Alpharetta, Bagel Boys serves fresh-baked bagels in traditional flavors, including everything, sesame, egg, and cinnamon raisin. But the shop does offer some fun flavors, like banana nut, jalapeno cheddar, and chocolate chip. Top a bagel here with everything from schmear, lox, and onions and tomatoes to Nutella and peanut butter. The menu also features hot and cold deli sandwiches, soups, and salads.

This mother-daughter team first began popping up at farmers markets before the duo opened their popular East Atlanta Village bagel shop in 2018. Slow fermented and boiled, Emerald City  serves a variety of fresh, New York-style bagels daily, which often sell out before noon. Expect flavors ranging from everything, rosemary sea salt, and garlic to pretzel, jalapeno cheddar, and poppy seed. Top bagels here with whitefish, smoked salmon, and a variety of schmears. Bagel sandwiches are also available. Keep an eye out for specials. Want those bagels delivered? Hit up the bagel fairy.

Kosher Gourmet butcher shop and market is a staple in the Toco Hills community, and it carries a variety of bagels in traditional flavors, including egg, everything, onion, poppy seed, and pumpernickel. Purchase single bagels or bagels by the half and whole dozen here, along with schmears and toppings. Pick up a kosher deli sandwich for later or some fresh-baked challah, too.

The General Muir combines a Jewish deli with a bakery and keeps its bagel sandwiches on the menu prix fixe with a plain bagel and set toppings, including smoked salmon with avocado, grapefruit, and dill schmear and smoked trout salad with pickled onions. For those looking to DIY their bagel, flavors choices include everything, sesame, salt, and poppy seed with a variety of toppings, such as lox, gravlax, and scallion caper schmear. A second location is open in Sandy Springs. 

This Kirkwood butcher shop and bakery offers sourdough bagels baked fresh daily at the counter, alongside its various breads, pastries, and other baked goods. Keep an eye on Instagram for specials and holiday offerings here, too.

With six locations throughout the metro area, the name Goldbergs Fine Foods is well known in Atlanta. Sporting a full-service restaurant on one side and a bagel counter on the other, expect bagels here boiled and baked in the traditional way. Goldbergs also keeps its flavors traditional, which include everything, rye, onion, egg, and cinnamon raisin, with bagels topped with lox and schmear, smoked salmon, and even chipotle-avocado cream cheese. There’s a huge selection of breakfast specials at the restaurant as well as giant black and white cookies for purchase by the cash register.

Chef Terry Koval struck bagel gold when he opened B-Side bakery and cafe next door to his Decatur restaurant the Deer and the Dove. This is where to head for Montreal-style bagels. These bagels are first boiled in molasses and then wood-fired in an oven. Expect flavors like sea salt, benne seed, everything, and brown sugar and raisin here and a variety of toppings, including roasted garlic and chive schmear, smoked white fish, hummus, pimento cheese, and pastrami.

The bagels at Brooklyn Bagels are kettle boiled before baking, giving bagels here a crispy, blistered crust which helps retain a soft, fluffy inside. Look for traditional bagel flavors, along with a few fun choices on the menu, like rainbow, French toast, bacon cheddar, and chocolate chip. The creative bagel sandwiches and combos from this shop are hard to beat. There’s now a location open at Ansley Mall in Piedmont Heights.

Located on Peachtree Parkway in Cumming, the Bagel Hole opened during the first summer of the pandemic, but it’s been doing brisk business ever since and has become the source for tried-and-true New York-style bagels and bagel sandwiches in the area. Expect traditional bagel flavors here as well as bialy on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The shop offers schmears, including jalapeno cheddar, chive scallion, and pimento cheddar, as well as whitefish and chicken salads for topping. Try the Hole’y Pastrami sandwich on a choice of bagels made with pastrami, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing.