Happy Bagel Bakery

My hangover haven. Order the B.E.L.T bagel with a little mayonnaise and boom. You’re back to life!

I like going to Happy Bagel because it’s healthy and fresh. I would rather grab a bagel from here than at a fast food restaurant, any day!
They have a whole wall of bagels of all flavours. The best are the sesame, pumpernickel, and blueberry ones. If you come in the morning they’re usually nice, warm, and soft. Their flakey pastries full of cream cheese, olives, and potatoes also make a yummy snack! Their strudels are great too, I usually take one with me before I got to a friend’s house.
I enjoy their egg salad bagels, minus the fact that if you pick more than 3 toppings there’s an extra charge. Their food is generally pricey, but that’s the price you pay to support local restaurants.
Their seating area is a bit stuffy, because the window there is covered. Also their murals are very tacky and dated. I feel like if they uncovered the window, and added some nice plants, it would give it a new fresh feel. I never eat my food in there for that reason.
Their biggest plus is the parking. Come in the mornings before 11:00 to avoid all the high school students.
I hope Happy Bagel is at Finch and Bathurst for years to come!

Driving down Finch on the way to the 400 when I spotted the sign Happy Bagel. Yes! We immediately turned the corner and pulled into the lot. OMG. I haven’t seen such wonderful looking Danish pastry since leaving Montréal in the 70’s. YUM!!! Lots of cheese danish to choose from, large, small, with/​without fruit and heavy with the generous amount of cheese they use, and the wonderful light lemony glaze over top. Oh boy. I brought home half a dozen different ones, plus 2 potato bournekas (sp?) for supper, ate a cheese danish there along with a GREAT cup of coffee. I’m fussy about coffee and this was a really good cup of fresh made coffee. I had already had lunch so couldn’t sample the sandwiches which looked delish too. Highly recommended! — They also have fresh baked bread, most notably Challah, the Jewish egg bread. Yum again. Yes, we brought one of those home too. This place is now bookmarked on my GPS! Oh, and service is friendly, fast — welcoming… and they do have a small group of tables and chairs where one can enjoy the food and eat in.

Can’t comment on whether it is Montréal style, Toronto style or what have you but the place is really cool and the bagels are really tasty. It may be «bready» but it is not heavy and felt really light to eat despite the size. The staff are nice, and the coffee if you choose to purchase is twenty times better than Tim’s.
I want to go back for sure.

Love this bakery. Everything is made on site. The bagels are nice and light, and they have a variety of tasty pastries. Service is fast and friendly.

I have grown up in the Finch and Bathurst area. I watched my local Royal Bank Close down and it became a bakery shop specializing in Bagels. Yes, this is not a dense doughed bagel, it is a fluffy bagel which I really enjoyed. I actually prefer my bagels to be fluffy.
I have written a blog about this place:

Bagels in Toronto are so disappointing and this place is exemplary of the mediocre nature of big uninteresting bagels. More like bread in a donut form factor, the bagels here lack the chewiness on the inside, and a defined crust. Flavour… totally lacking. Will never return.
Head south and get real bagels from Gryfe’s.

one of my favourite bakerys.
They make their own bagels 100% fresh everyday. In the morning I always get them still warm or hot right out of the oven.
These are east european owners — so the bagels are different from montreal style bagels. they are more «bread like» inside. They are not the light bagels you get at the supermarkets. They are definitely different but still great tasting and most importantly, fresh!
They also sell sandwiches and coffee and have small dining area.
They have other pastries like danishes, croissants, apple pies, bourekas — all of which i love, and all cooked fresh.
Highly recommend. BUT GO IN THE MORNING. By 3pm there is not much left in the way of FRESH goods. Plenty of parking in the plaza too.

I have visited lots of bakeries in the area but this one by far takes my heart.
They have a good variety of bagels, buns, cakes and other baked sweetness. If you are up for a break, you can fill your bagel with fresh vegetables, cream cheeses of all sorts, meats, fish, and anything you could imagine your breakfast with. If you are up in a hurry or on a mission to feed you office colleges, you will be offered bagels by dozens (every 12^th dozen is free) and cream cheese to go! Coffee and tea are there as well.
Place also offers a small sitting are that feels warm, but often busy.
A breakfast for two including two bagels with lox cream cheese (it is good!), two big baked pieces of sweetness and two coffees will cost you around 15 $ + 2 drinks for free.
Great place for a morning breakfast.

Boss was having an awful day yesterday. I thought I’d start his Friday off right with a surprise bag of bagels and lox cream cheese on his desk. I find a whole pile of carbs is the right medicine when you’re at the end of your rope.
I’ve driven by this place many times and decided to stop in on the way to work. Service was quick. Parking is plentiful. Grab your own bagels (and more) Chinese bakery tong (not thong) style. Six bagels were $ 3.50.
Be warned, these are not Montréal style. They’re fluffy. I much prefer the denser Montréal style bagel. That said, I wouldn’t kick the Happy Bagel Bakery’s sesame bagels out of bed for eating matzo under the sheets.[1]
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[1] Karl R makes no promises, written or implied, that the footnoted sentence or any other sentence he writes makes any sense. Keep on truckin’.

Happy Bagel reminds me of H&H bagel on the Upper West Side. They offers croissants, cookies (the black & white cookie), breads, streudel, pies, different beverages and of course, bagels.
I loved that they also do nutella spreads on bagel, including jams, peanut butter and cream cheese. I opted for a cream cheese bagel that was deliciously creamy. There really is no replacement to a fresh bagel. The coffee at HB is nothing to write home about, but it’s called Happy *Bagel* for a reason.
This is probably more of a ‘pick up’ place than an ‘eat in’ since the staff is pretty UN-​happy.