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.

Keep an eye out for this bagel cart around Inman Park. Owned by Niki Hetchkop, who received a grant from the Jewish Federation of Atlanta allowing her to lease commercial kitchen space, the Beeline Bagel cart typically serves New York-style bagels on Fridays and Sundays near the Eastside Beltline. Expect traditional bagel flavors from this cart, including everything, sesame, poppy seed, and salt bagels served with schmears like plain, scallion, strawberry, and honey smash. Follow on Instagram or the Beeline Bagels website for ordering and locations.

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 bagel maker and bakery is often at both the Brookhaven and Dunwoody farmers markets on the weekends doling out New York-style hand-rolled and kettle-boiled bagels and schmear and bagel sandwiches. Bagel flavors include everything from rosemary sea salt and cheddar cheese jalapeno to everything, poppyseed, and even pumpernickel. Try one of the bagel bombs, like the everything filled with plain schmear or the Italian stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil, parmesan cheese, and garlic. The Bronx Bagel Buggy also sells onion and tomato rosemary bialys. Check the website for location updates and ordering.

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. 

Spiller Park Coffee owner Dale Donchey started making bagels over a decade ago. Now, Donchey has turned his love for baking bagels into a thriving pop-up called Dear Friend, Bagels. The bagel business is currently on hiatus until 2023 while Donchey ramps up his third Spiller Park location in northwest Atlanta and plans for a forthcoming location Downtown. But once back up and running, catch Donchey popping up with bagels at all of his Spiller Park locations in Atlanta with flavors like everything, cinnamon sugar, and sumac poppyseed topped with dill or sorghum labneh and sides of sumac pickles. Follow on Instagram for details.

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.

BB’s Bagels (Bronx Bagels) includes a very loyal fanbase of folks living in Atlanta’s northern suburbs. The bagels from this shop are New York-style and are hand-rolled before being kettle boiled and baked. Flavors at BB’s range from the traditional, like egg, everything, onion, and garlic, to cranberry, French toast, and chocolate chip. There’s even bialy on the weekends. Top bagels here with a variety of schmears, including olive pimento, horseradish bacon, sun-dried tomato, and strawberry, along with tuna or chicken salad and lox. Beyond bagels, BB’s also serves egg platters, breakfast burritos, chicken sandwiches, and burgers. Make sure to read up on BB’s “Sixteen Commandments”, which include no whining, no custom orders, and no free bagel slicing.

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.