Any Bagel lovers?

[Kevin]

My wife goes to New York City pretty often for work and usually brings back bagels.

She went to one place and ordered a dozen. They just filled the bag with about 18 bagels. Sort of the way 5 Guys does their French fries (I do not eat at 5 Guys by the way.)

But the other day here in Dallas I saw a new place. Here is what they want for a dozen bagels.

Sometimes I really get fed up with Dallas. Stores here think they are “special” and it must be good because it costs so much. I need that duck with his middle finger.

Anyway, sweetie comes home tomorrow morning with a hot dozen, so I can have a toasted bagel for breakfast.

The bagels in NYC really are better… it’s the water. I swear.

 

[Kevin]

To be clear, the picture shows the price of a dozen bagels in Dallas, NOT NYC. Usually they are around $20 there.

Edited to add:
Onion Bagels are the one true bagel. Everything else is mid.

 

[peachhead]

I can't really say a lot, considering how much a dozen Krispy kremes are now.
Anyway I like bagels but The only real bagel place I've ever been to is Tim Hortons and I'm not even sure that that counts. Lol

 

[375hh1973]

We have Big Apple bagels here, they not bad.

No idea what one costs, wife and I go in there get a couple bagels, coffee for her, coke for me, swipe a card.

 

[sfhogman]

House of Bagels, Geary Blvd. San Francisco. They make 'em up at night and serve 'em hot in the morning. Every kind of bagel that you could imagine. My favorite is lox and cream cheese...heavenly.
Their motto:
"When is a seagull not a seagull? When it's a Bay Gull"
The place is just down the street from Boudin's bakery sourdough bread since the Gold Rush.
Now I'm hungry...

 

[Laserbait]

We have Einstein and Brueger's bagles here. They're both pretty decent for my unrefined tastebuds. My favorites are the cheese bagels and the garlic ones. Good stuff.

 

[WAYNO]

Oh yes I love bagels. But, that's one more food I'm not allowed to eat regularly.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

I have to agree (I despise NYC)...NYC does have the best bagel shops.

I love bagels......for me its an "everything" bagel with heavy cream cheese and hot coffee......there was a place in Secaucus NJ that also had good bagels that supplied breakfast at meetings and training seminars.

But Wife and I just deal with the local bakery for them now......not the same....

 

[eveled]

We have Einstein and Brueger's bagles here. They're both pretty decent for my unrefined tastebuds. My favorites are the cheese bagels and the garlic ones. Good stuff.

Einstein makes a hotdog inside a bagel tube. it’s amazing.

 

[ProfessorWes]

Not a whole lot of bagel shops where I live, unless Panera Bread counts.

Still enjoy the occasional blueberry bagel with cream cheese. Yum.

 

[MaxMan]

Flakowitz Bagels. Down in Boca but dot get down there anymore. There is a place across from Bascom Palmer where we go after the wife's Doc visit there Brooklyn Bagel. They say they use NY water and that makes it different. Knock 25% off the price and use SOFla water. I do like them toasted with butter unless they are Pumpernickel Bagels, then cream cheese. The wife gets everything bagel with lox onions and cream cheese. But like Wayno they are to be avoided on my diet.

 

[GSP7]

Ill take a English muffin ,

 

[Kevin]

Flakowitz Bagels. Down in Boca but dot get down there anymore. There is a place across from Bascom Palmer where we go after the wife's Doc visit there Brooklyn Bagel. They say they use NY water and that makes it different. Knock 25% off the price and use SOFla water. I do like them toasted with butter unless they are Pumpernickel Bagels, then cream cheese. The wife gets everything bagel with lox onions and cream cheese. But like Wayno they are to be avoided on my diet.

I hear ya. I’m diabetic as well. So I really don’t eat many bagels.

Pumpernickel bagels are good but really salty, I’m not sure why… Onion are just my all time favorite.

 

[coach]

I’m partial to everything bagels and cream cheese but I’ll eat any. We usually get them from Safeway for about $4 or $5 for 6. I know they aren’t NY bagels but they’re a lot handier in the morning.

 

[protoolman]

I have enjoyed a blueberry battle from time to time. Never a real new York bagel though.

 

[ArizonaTea123]

A true bagel is par-boiled before they are baked. Makes for a chewy center and a crisp crust. Not many bagel houses par-boil their bagels.

 

[Laserbait]

A true bagel is par-boiled before they are baked. Makes for a chewy center and a crisp crust. Not many bagel houses par-boil their bagels.

There used to be an awesome deli here that did them that way. It was called the Lincoln Del. So freakin good! They've been closed for 25+ years, sad to say.

 

[jimbo1096]

I’m a English muffin kind of guy.
Went to New Orleans about a month ago and my granddaughter wanted to try this fancy hole in the wall yuppie place because the food critics say they have good bagels and that’s what she likes. I think I paid $36 for two bagel sandwiches that had half the ingredients on them that I put on my sandwiches at home. I’ll not be doing that again. For something good and that is a regional piece of New Orleans cuisine I’ll go for a begniet from Cafe Du Monde. They’re overpriced too because of the tourist trade, but. they sure are good.

 

[MaxMan]

Did you try the beignets with chicory coffee? I know not on the subject but the Cafe Du Monde I had to.

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[GRAMPS 51]

When I use to deliver gas stations down in the outskirts of NYC in Westchester -Portchester areas there were bakeries everywhere and the bagels were out of this world I would buy a dozen eat two on the way back to the loading terminals in CT and leave the rest for the guys at the terminal I would be their favorite driver on those days
Gramps

 

[JBP]

I grew up in NYC so bagels were a staple but bialy's were my favorite.

 

[Yaworski]

For something good and that is a regional piece of New Orleans cuisine I’ll go for a begniet from Cafe Du Monde. They’re overpriced too because of the tourist trade, but. they sure are good.

+1 for begneits.

 

[peachhead]

Did you try the beignets with chicory coffee? I know not on the subject but the Cafe Du Monde I had to.

Worst coffee I ever had.

 

[Yaworski]

I haven't had a bagel in years. Too many carbs. I like either a rye bagel or a salt bagel. Toasted with butter.

 

[whodunit68]

HUGE bagel lover. I grew up in northern NJ and though, like you, I'm not allowed to eat them, it's one thing I do not miss doing when I visit family in NJ or visit NYC. It's against the law to not have my everything bagel (though I justify my bad habit by having whole wheat everything)!

 

[vito]

Growing up in Brooklyn, NY, bagels were a way of life. For me, onion bagels were the best but almost any bagel would do in a pinch. With cream cheese and smoked salmon ideally. Living in the Midwest I found Brueger bagels to be good, but now we don't have a Brueger's or even an Einstein bagel shop, so I rely upon the bagels from Costco (which are really not bad at all).

 

[txramfan]

I , being frugal , cheap and too lazy to drive to a bagel shop and purchase real bagels willing buy refrigerated bagels at the grocery store almost every week. These mass produced bagels are then consumed with mass produced peanut butter ( crunchy is preferred ) or mass produced cream cheese. On rare occasions I include smoked salmon with the cream cheese.

 

[Hertervillian]

I fully understand the spoiled by good ones. Years ago I worked next to a Jewish bakery in Detroit. Those bagels changed my expectations forever, NY may well be better, but those set the bar quite high for me.

What’s odd (or not) I always got the distinct impression they hated me. The product made up for the personality deficit I guess. Oh, they were stupid expensive too, the goodness somehow only lasted several hours. By the next morning they were simply great not astoundingly delicious.

 

[brucew44guns]

When I use to deliver gas stations down in the outskirts of NYC in Westchester -Portchester areas there were bakeries everywhere and the bagels were out of this world I would buy a dozen eat two on the way back to the loading terminals in CT and leave the rest for the guys at the terminal I would be their favorite driver on those days
Gramps

Your words brought recall to me as to "tanker days" with me as well, 42 years of it. Altadena, California, just north of Pasadena, had a Union 76 I went to with loads 2 or 3 times a week--an old style Winchells donut house within 50 feet of the hoses, and this was always a 4 or 5 am dump as the transport plugged up the station during business hours, irresistable fresh donuts lured me to the window every time, snarf down a couple as it ran off.

 

[stonebuster]

When I use to deliver gas stations down in the outskirts of NYC in Westchester -Portchester areas there were bakeries everywhere and the bagels were out of this world I would buy a dozen eat two on the way back to the loading terminals in CT and leave the rest for the guys at the terminal I would be their favorite driver on those days
Gramps

I think the bagels we get here in NW CT are pretty good but not sure where they're coming from. Maybe NY.