I'm afraid you won't get them there.

These are packaged for and sold by Waitrose here in the UK.

You don't have owe his money. You have to pay for it. :)

Here's an interesting list from USA Today. I haven't been to the places mentioned, but the criteria they use make it sound promising.

They pick 8 in the five boroughs, and another 8 around the country.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...agels/1834217/

being a typical NYer or have you actually been to Montreal and tasted.
Thanks for posting swag.

For Chicago area, the article lists Kaufman's & NYC Bagel & Bialy. My go to is NYC Bagel & Bialy www.newyorkbagelandbialy.net

Although a few months ago while picking up some corned beef from www.romaniankoshersausage.com (best corned beef in Chicago IMO), I bumped into fellow FTer plainsman, who was with a friend who had grown up in NYC) that said her favorite in Chicago is: www.bagelcountry.com Sadly, I have yet to get there.

How far *outside* NYC ya wanna go?
 

Beigel Bake in Brick Lane, London E1
handrolled, boiled, all the making right in front of you.
baker's dozen has been known.

Get them 2am Sunday morning coming home from Saturday night out, together with the Sunday papers.

Detroit has a few top notch bagel shops. The Detroit Bagel Factory is excellent and has multiple locations. The New York Bagel locations are excellent as well.

Interestingly enough, the # 2 on the list of best bagels in NYC is Tal's. I wonder if it is owned by the same people I mentioned in this post:




Forget Montreal! Have you tried BB's Bagels, Alpharetta, Ga? It is near you and listed on the USA Today list as the 2nd best bagels outside of New York.

I had never heard of them until now.

I just took a look at their Internet web site, and the bagels actually do appear to resemble New York-style bagels.

Their nearest location is almost 25 miles away from where I am based. I was in that area twice last month and wish I would have known about it, but I otherwise am rarely there, so it might be some time before I visit...

And yet all of the pictures are of bagels coated with everything or filled with everything including the kitchen sink. :rolleyes:

I don't know if owned by the same people, but I find NYB&B on Dempster in Skokie to be essentially identical to the one on Touhy (the link above.) And you cannot go wrong with either of those or Kaufman's. During the couple of years they were rebuilding at Kaufman's, Bette sent her customers to NYB&B as an alternative.

I feel the same and also about the NYB&B on Dempster in Niles.

Fanwood Bagel in Fanwood, NJ about 60 mins from NYC

My sister lived in NYC for five years and claims that Ray's New York Bagels- available in the freezer section of Publix and other middlebrow grocers- are better than just about any place she's tried outside of NYC that makes their bagels on-site. Allegedly it's the whole needs the NYC water thing.

I grew up in NY - upstate...best bagels I've found outside of NY in a place I've lived is The Hot Bagel Shop in Houston TX...always a line on Sunday mornings, place is FANTASTIC

Kaufmann's in Skokie is pretty good. I think NY Bagel and Bialy has slightly better bagels, but Kaufmann's will make sandwiches.

Outside of DC, just past Arlington and by George Mason, there's a joint called The Italian Place which has very, very good bagels and even better NY pizza.

Corky and Lenny's on Cleveland's East Side is very authentic.

As many know, the Jews made their way to the East End of London before any finally found their way to NYC. So, for many of us the bagel yearnings started down the same streets that were trodden by Jack the Ripper. In fact if Jack had tasted the bagels from Brick Lane I'm quite certain that he would have soon learned how to swear in Yiddish and he would have been distracted from his other hobby.

So obsessed with the yearnings did I become later in life for the sweet chewishness of a Jewish bagel that it isn't unknown for desperation to win and for me to drive all the way from my home to Brick Lane - a round trip of 5 hours to buy a dozen bagels, having carefully requested the burnt ones. This had to stop.

Now here is the thing.

What idiot concluded that the best thing you can teach a kid at school is woodwork? OK, a bookend is a beautiful and useful thing. And they do make mothers proud. But why (oh why) do they not teach men to make bagels?

Anyway, I make bagels. I read everything I could, I tried every idea and I ended up with what I remember and yearn for and like ... but a bit better. I make wonderful bagels. Anyone can make bagels. And after a few goes they will taste better than any you can buy. And the uglier and less consistant they are ... and the bigger they are ... the better they are. A few hours from now ... when the urge hits that vulnerable mark ... you can be eating bagels without even going out.

Ladies and gentleman .... make bagels!!!!!!!

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Does wonderful = burnt? :D

Never underestimate the competition for the burnt ones. :p

Share your recipe
 

UK1 what a great idea! Can you share your recipe and methods?

I wounder where the bagels at the United Club come from. Probably varies by location.

UK1 - those bagels looking flippin' amazing. Tremendous job, man!

Thanks .... how kind. I'm proud of my bagels.

I was simply a desperate man yearning for a proper onion bagel ... but the plain ones are really gorgeous. Can you taste them from the picture?:D

There is something special about that late night yearning .... and bagels will always be associated for me with leaving a club in Soho and making my way to the East End .... but simply being able to make some. I think it's yearning - and not having - that makes the yearning even more painful.

I'm afraid ... at this very moment I have a couple of baguettes in the oven .......

Not boiled?

http://www.bagelfactoryinc.com/locations.php this is the location page go to the home page for video..

I must say that the Bagel Factory is my go to spot in Los Angeles, I have been to all 3 locations. I rate them: The Cadillac Location the best.. Just north of LAX ( National Exit on 405N ) is the Sepulveda Location and holding the Second Spot, and Batting Clean Up Torrance but still very Solid.. Only difference is "Turn Over" which to me is important for eating fresh. Good Cream Cheese too.. If your are going to freeze and eat at another time all are the best ( IMHO Warm in Oven do not toast for best results )

FT worthy, I heard that they are not that great but.. Larry Kings Brooklyn Water Bagel is opening on Sepulveda ( just a short walk from In and Out for you guys on a lay over ) they are soon to open ( its been under construction for over a year now), must of had issues but seems to have some movement of late and looks like it should open real soon.. Happy Eating and Safe Travels

They aren't dumplings!:D

They are boiled for 60 seconds - then baked.

Try it!

We just had a great bagel place open near us in Cockeysville. Goldberg's. They are as good as bagels I have had in NY. I pick them up before 2pm on Friday. A regular Saturday treat now.

Does Goldberg snip a bit off of the Cockeysville bagels when they come out of the oven?

The House of Bagels mini-chain in the San Francisco Bay area makes decent real bagels, even if most of the owners are of Asian origin.

If you happen to be in Palo Alto, California, try Izzy's Brooklyn Bagels on California Avenue. Boiled, kosher, yet open Saturday (presumably with non-Jewish bakers). The main problem with Izzy's is it tends to close at 2 or 3 pm.

After having a bagel at Izzy's, to round off the experience, walk three blocks down California Ave to the hole-in-the-wall Cho's Mandarin Dimsum, kosher bagels followed by pork pot stickers!

As to those who think Noah's Bagels are edible, on behalf of bagel makers everywhere, I apologize.

A few weeks ago, I had a toasted everything bagel, lox, cream cheese, onion, tomato, and capers at Olde World Bagels in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Across the street from a decent Doubletree hotel, btw).

This place is pretty far from NYC ... but damn, it was legit. If you ever find yourself out there, it's worth a drive to this place.

http://www.oldeworldbagel.com/

Anyone had a chance to try BB's Bagels?

An unapologetic plug to make people yearn to make far superior bagels at home ....... I give you my absolute word that you will never buy a bagel out that is as good as a home-baked bagel .... once you get the technique, then you will be hooked. The Bagel yearnings will creep up and get you ... particularly late at night. Have you ever smelled baking bagels in your own kitchen late at night......?

This was the last patch cooked in the pizza oven. Soft tops, chewy sweet middles and lovely pert bottoms! They must all be different shapes and some charred. Process with a couple of batches of finished bagels just before scoffing.


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Love House of Bagels...used to go there every Sunday when I lived in SF.

I have to agree. I don't know the specific bakery, but one of our consultants used to fly regularly with a dozen from Montreal to our location in East Tennessee and they were the best I've ever had. Then he went on a diet and I never saw him eat anything but apples. :(

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I grew up in Lincolnwood and agree. I now live further north and whenever I drive up Edens I'll stop.

I always ask if they have any hot, when available they are best ever anywhere.

This, so very much.

Israel is finally Jewish!
 

As mentioned in the above post from 2006, Israel had no bagels until about 10 years ago. (It did have very large, round, breads with a hole in the middle but it in no other way resembled a bagel).

Real bagels are still hard to find here (outside of Tal's) but a double miracle happened in the last month. The first part is that pastrami, as New Yorkers know it, became available in supermarkets.

The second part is that a few days ago Jewish rye bread appeared on the market (although, to date, I know of only one supermarket in my area that has it).

Today, for the first time, I was able to have pastrami on rye in Israel! Alas, the closest thing that I can find to Deli mustard is French's Spicy Brown, but after 36 years of living here without pastrami on rye I am not about to complain about the mustard.

(Oddly enough, Hebrew National products are not sold in the Hebrew nation.)

Ok well then a nice gift to the relatives in Israel might be to bring some nice frozen real rye bread and bagels. There of course are none here in Oregon but we import ours from Los Angeles!

Bagels factory
 

Hi all,

It is very interesting to see how they make a bagels. It's called behind the scene. I watch it all. They have everything, plain, onions, garlic, poppy, sesame, and whole wheat. You will like it.

Here's a video:


Enjoy!

I’m stunned that bagels weren’t part of the Israeli diet until recent years. How about beigels as they’re called in London??

Thanks , N830MH , really enjoyed this video too .
Guess what after watching though ⁉️

Had bagel craving - so eventually caved in & wonder where I could get similar & here are 2 of 3 😉
Success shown below from Two Men Bagel House

The walnut and cream cheese bagel was consumed before I remembered to take a photo . Below are halves of other 2 saved for the following day - was surprisingly just as delicious 😋


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“ Lamb of God “ - with lamb 🙄 & “ Mademoiselle “ corned beef & honey baked ham