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I Need A Good Bagel

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  • easilyfound
    easilyfound
    Carnivore wrote: Even if they're not as good as they used to be, I still think Bagel Hole is the best around.
    I just wish that they would cook their bagels a bit longer. Too pale and blond for my liking. I really miss the hard crusty outside.
  • booklaw
    booklaw
    Has anyone tried the bagels at Kossar's (the bialy store on the LES)? I think they're the best in NYC.
    We Put just as much care into our bagels as we do our bialys. We only use the freshest and finest ingredients like pure malt syrup instead of sugar, high gluten flour, salt, and brewers yeast. Our egg bagels use only fresh eggs, not a pre-broken mix. Our cinnamon raisin bagel is a true delight, our pumpernickel is quite tasty, and our everything bagel is the fastest seller.

    Our master craftsman hand cuts and rolls the dough. From the moment it leaves the spiral mixer, the dough is carefully crafted into what Saveur Magazine wrote were the best bagels in New York.

    Our bagels are kettle boiled to perfection before being baked in our newly installed Middleby-Marshall rotating shelf oven.

    One taste and you, too, will be hooked on New York's finest bagel.

  • carnivore
    carnivore
    booklaw wrote: Has anyone tried the bagels at Kossar's (the bialy store on the LES)? I think they're the best in NYC.
    We Put just as much care into our bagels as we do our bialys. We only use the freshest and finest ingredients like pure malt syrup instead of sugar, high gluten flour, salt, and brewers yeast. Our egg bagels use only fresh eggs, not a pre-broken mix. Our cinnamon raisin bagel is a true delight, our pumpernickel is quite tasty, and our everything bagel is the fastest seller.

    Our master craftsman hand cuts and rolls the dough. From the moment it leaves the spiral mixer, the dough is carefully crafted into what Saveur Magazine wrote were the best bagels in New York.

    Our bagels are kettle boiled to perfection before being baked in our newly installed Middleby-Marshall rotating shelf oven.

    One taste and you, too, will be hooked on New York's finest bagel.

    Really? I'll have to check them out. I do like their bialys (although not nearly as much as the ones at Coney Island Bagels and Bialys).
  • shekb
    shekb
    booklaw wrote: Has anyone tried the bagels at Kossar's (the bialy store on the LES)? I think they're the best in NYC.
    I used to go out there all the time before I found Bagel Hole.
  • sprite
    sprite
    pastoralia wrote: This may be sacreligious but I love the multi-grain bagel at La Bagel Delight...I also love the crazy atmosphere of that place and how hard everyone works.
    I love Bagel Delight too. I don't love the crazy lines, but the people who work there are really nice, and I like their bagels better than any others I've had in PS.

    The NYT article posted upthread was good in many respects, but "true" bagels should not be defined only by what was available in the 50's. We wouldn't pass over a new restaurant because the fusion cuisine it offers wasn't available in the 50's, so why should we pass on blueberry bagels? I love blueberry bagels!
  • booklaw
    booklaw
    It's not just the blueberries that differentiates the modern Bagel Delight-type bagel from the 1950's kind. The modern bagel is made in a completely different way, which is why it is so much larger, softer and puffier than the traditional bagel. The original bagel was made by hand by members of the bagel-makers union (incredible but true!); the new bagel is made at least in part by machine.
  • scarlett
    scarlett
    OK, question: I have to get up Saturday morning and go buy like three dozen bagels to bring into work. I walk by Bagel Hole, and could walk to PPW. Where should I go, and how much do I have to spend?
  • stjamesthemore
    stjamesthemore
    Terrace Bagel has "happy hour" two times a day where bagels are 1/2 price. I can't remember the exact times, but you could call them. Just expect a line on Saturday
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    You should get a dozen and a half from each and report back here with your findings. You should have a good survey sample size with 3 dozen bagels.
  • dollymibella
    dollymibella
    Just ask for your bagel well done. That's what I do at Bagel Hole, very delish.
  • easilyfound
    easilyfound
    Dollymibella wrote: Just ask for your bagel well done. That's what I do at Bagel Hole, very delish.
    I've done that. It doesn't work. I still get a blond and pale bagel, leading me to think that they either don't understand the words "well done," don't care to give me what I want, or don't have any "well done" bagels to give me.
  • yankeefan
    yankeefan
    Terrace Bagels make the best bagels I've ever had in my life.
  • easilyfound
    easilyfound
    Got terrific bagels at Bagel Hole this morning. Asked for them "well done" and it worked this time. Crusty outside. Nicely done.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    terrace, hands down.

    (though i would like to know why, at the end of the day, they have bags and bags of uneaten bagels waiting out for trash. shouldn't they be donating them somewhere?)
  • drano
    drano
    La Bagel Delight...well, it's ok. I live closer to Terrace though, so LBD really has no shot at my business these days.
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