Originally Posted by keeton
In the Atlanta area, the Palace Bakery located in the Toco Hills shopping center (just northeast of the city limits of Atlanta) has the best bagels I've found in the area.
To be perfectly fair, though, the attached restaurant has a local following but is pretty awful for anything other than their bagels. Your best bet is to get a sackfull of bagels from the bakery counter to go.
Other decent bagel places in Atlanta include Goldberg's Bagels (2 locations - Roswell Road / Wieuca Road & West Paces Ferry / Highway 41) and Bagelicious (the "other" Roswell Road in E. Cobb).
RLG - too bad you don't live in HNL...I could bring some ATL bagels to you later this week...