The Bagel Deli & Restaurant has been serving Southeast Denver out of its Hampden Avenue strip-mall location since 1967, built on recipes the family describes as Bubbie's favorites. Breakfast runs all day alongside a deli menu of sandwiches piled high with pastrami, corned beef, and roast beef, hot soups like chicken with matzo balls and vegetable beef barley, knishes, potato pancakes, and cheesecake for dessert.
It earned a following well beyond the strip mall after a stint on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and has since added outposts at Denver International Airport and Empower Field at Mile High, though the original Hampden Avenue location remains the flagship.
Worth knowing going in: the bagels themselves aren't made in-house, so regulars come for the deli counter and the soup rather than bagel craft — and opinions on service and pricing here run strong in both directions.
It earned a following well beyond the strip mall after a stint on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and has since added outposts at Denver International Airport and Empower Field at Mile High, though the original Hampden Avenue location remains the flagship.
Worth knowing going in: the bagels themselves aren't made in-house, so regulars come for the deli counter and the soup rather than bagel craft — and opinions on service and pricing here run strong in both directions.