The Laundromat Review: The Best Bagel in San Francisco

Here’s a confession from someone who’s mostly gluten-free: I have opinions about San Francisco bagels anyway. Strong ones. I’ve tried a bunch of different bagel places in this city, because when you only occasionally spend a gluten allowance, you research like it’s a mortgage.

If I’m getting a real bagel in San Francisco, The Laundromat in the Outer Richmond is where I go. That’s the whole verdict, and given how rarely I spend that allowance, it’s the strongest recommendation I own.

What to Know About The Laundromat

Bagels are a morning affair here — Wednesday through Sunday until early afternoon — and the shop pulls a delightful double shift as a pizza-and-wine spot by night, because the Outer Richmond contains multitudes. The bagel lineup runs from a proper everything to pumpernickel and sea salt–cinnamon raisin, at $3 a bagel, which in 2026 reads like a typo in your favor.

Bonus routing: it’s on Balboa Street, two blocks from Constance’s fresh-milled matcha. Bagel, then koicha. The Outer Richmond morning is solved.

The Verdict on The Laundromat

• Best for: Proper bagels worth a gluten allowance · Balboa Street mornings
• Know before you go: Bagels Wed–Sun mornings only · pizza takes over at night
• Where: 3725 Balboa St, Outer Richmond (Google Maps) · thelaundromatsf.com

The showdown you’ve been waiting for lives in my best bagels in San Francisco post — where The Laundromat takes the classic crown and Wise Sons keeps the gluten-free one.

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