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.

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!

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 😋



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