Big Apple Bagels (Portage)
3838 West Centre Avenue #100Getting old sucks. Sure, I suppose I’m “wiser” than I was 20 years ago but that doesn’t make up for not being able to walk without some kind of pain.
I’m not as good as I need to be about going to the doctor. There’s nothing majorly wrong with me but a lot of those things that start to happen with age are creeping in.
I had an appointment last Thursday just to go over some bloodwork and refill prescriptions. Nothing major and something that wasn’t going to take too long. I just needed to do it.
I dropped B off at school at the normal time and I still had about 45 minutes until I needed to be at the doctor’s office. It was kind of stupid to go home at that point so I decided to just go grab breakfast.
I headed toward Portage and was actually thinking I was just going to grab fast food breakfast. Then I remembered there was a bagel place near where I was going and picked that instead.
Big Apple Bagels in Portage is on West Centre Avenue in the Woodbridge Village shopping center just to the west of Moorsbridge Road. The small counter service sandwich shop sits on the west end of the shopping plaza before you get to the building occupied by Fieldstone Grill. This restaurant used to share space with Sweet Duet Frozen Yogurt but that shop is gone and now it’s just a Big Apple Bagel.
Like a few of my recent blog posts, this is not the first time I’ve been to this Big Apple Bagel but it is the first time in a very long time. I actually had to look up old posts to see if I had been to this one before. Turns out, last time I was here and probably the only time, was in 2013 when I was taking L to a daycare like class in Portage. This is one of two Big Apple Bagels in the Kalamazoo area. The other is on West Main. There used to be a third on South Westnedge but that one closed and is now Apoptosis Brewing (and before that, on Westnedge and Whites where J. Gumbo’s used to be.)
The restaurant is counter service with a display case of sweet treats and the menu board hanging behind the registers. I feel like I always get the same thing when I stop in to a Big Apple Bagels. I typically stop in for breakfast and almost always order the Southern Tradition. I did that again. The cost was a little over $7. I had a Pepsi in the car so I passed on the drink and just stuck with the sandwich.
I took a seat in the dining room to wait. I still had some time to kill so I figured I’d just eat there. The space does have kind of a coffee shop vide with carpeted floors and several pub tables. There were a few booths kind of hanging out in the middle of the space but most seating was the high tables along the outside of the dining room.
The Southern Tradition is a simple breakfast sandwich with folded eggs, meat and American cheese. I picked bacon as my meat choice and had it put on an Everything Bagel. That is really the part of my order that has changed over the years. I used to just be a boring plain bagel but discovered a while ago I really like Everything Bagels. This sandwich is simple and delicious. It’s hard to ask for anything else when it comes to breakfast sandwiches. I just want something tasty and on the go.
I love a good bagel breakfast sandwich but I always forget we have Big Apple Bagels in the area. They’re delicious, simple, and quick. Can’t ask for more than that.
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