Your favourite bagel

[tarannau]

Did I say that you did? You're just bitter after I said that Facebook impersonator had better hair than you - I is being picked on by a mod



Still, nothing beats a brick lane bagel at 5 in the morning after a night clubbing. Often followed by waking up with a cream cheese dribble down your front, or that's what it looks like anyway.

 

[killer b]

on the balance, i think plain.

i sometimes make them myself - tis great fun. donna - why don't you try? it's not difficult, and they taste nicer than shop bought ones...

 

[aqua]

Still, nothing beats a brick lane bagel at 5 in the morning after a night clubbing. Often followed by waking up with a cream cheese dribble down your front, or that's what it looks like anyway.

I have the worlds worst mental image possible - thanks

 

[aqua]

Bloody food snob

 

[Xanadu]

Nothing quite like a hot salt beef and mustard on onion bagel on the way home from the pub.

 

[ohmyliver]

Nothing quite like a hot salt beef and mustard on onion bagel on the way home from the pub.

seconded... allthough hot salt beef, mustard, pickle, cheese on onion platizel is king of the Beigel Bake...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Salt beef in a homemade bagel. food of the G-ds.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nothing quite like a hot salt beef and mustard on onion bagel on the way home from the pub.

Except that the onion ruins the taste of everything else.

 

[Chz]

Proper bagels, plain or poppy seed. Rare as hen's teeth around these parts, though. There's maybe 4 places in the whole city you can get them, Beigel Bake being the most convenient. Best with salt beef or butter.

Supermarket bagels are perfectly good dough - just different. Then I want sesame seed or raisin and cinnamon. Best with cream cheese.

 

[Fuchs66]

Filling wise - Salmon & Cream Cheese cannot be beaten.

Drool (in a sesame bagel of course)

 

[Detroit City]

where's the bleedin' choice for a bagel that has everything? (onion, garlic, poppyseed, sesame seed, etc...)

 

[ohmyliver]

Proper bagels, plain or poppy seed. Rare as hen's teeth around these parts, though. There's maybe 4 places in the whole city you can get them, Beigel Bake being the most convenient. Best with salt beef or butter.

Supermarket bagels are perfectly good dough - just different. Then I want sesame seed or raisin and cinnamon. Best with cream cheese.

where are the others? I know of one at the bottom of Stoke Newington High St as an old jewish east end cabbie told me that they did the best bagels in london

 

[Herbsman.]

Bagels are a fucking rip-off, an almighty con. What's the point of having bread with a hole in it ffs?!

 

[lynne8]

onion bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese and capers (or thinly sliced onions) is ace. I like pumpernickel bagels with cream cheese too.

 

[Lysistrata]

I bought some bagels from Tesco last week (should have known better) and they just weren't right. A good onion or poppy seed bagel is the greatest, with cream cheese or toasted with peanut butter. A few years ago I worked in King's Cross and I used to go to a wonderful cafe near Chancery Lane called "Bagel's Inn" where they cooked on the premises. They did all the classics as well as thing like pizza bagels. Nowadays I'm stuck in Vauxhall and the nearest bagels are Victoria Station or supermarkets. Sigh. (Unless anyone knows otherwise!)

 

[catrina]

There used to be a place where I grew up that did sourdough bagels, they were absolutely heavenly. I really miss them.

Second to that i like plain bagels, with a little spring onion or vegetable cream cheese to dip (not spread). Untoasted.

Sainsburys plain bagels are really, really good, though, and they're good on their own.

 

[catrina]

I disagree with you, tarannau, I think Sainsburys are pretty good, although a little fluffy (perhaps they use self raising flour).

I make my own bagels sometimes, dead easy although time consuming. But rewarding.

 

[Jazzz]

oh I thought this was about fillings. should have voted for a seedy one.


There's only one filling, smoked salmon and cream cheese, what else?

Although just butter is okay.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

There's only one filling, smoked salmon and cream cheese, what else?

Lots of lemon juice and freshly ground pepper with that, I'd say......and just a plain baigel, no fancy-schmancy cinnamon added to the dough or nuffink

 

[Dillinger4]

I had pastrami and pickle today. It was lovely!

 

[twisted_angel]

I dont like bagels they are too heavy.

 

[Cloo]

Poppy seed bagels....mmmm!

Very few places actually do 'real' bagels... one good thing about being where we are now is eay reach of Temple Fortune/Golders Green - lands of the real bagel! So now to recover from Saturday night we can do the real Jew thing and buy a fresh bunch from Daniel's.

I'm a smoked salmon/cream cheese girl, but have also recently discovered the joy of salt beef, capers and greens in one. Yummy! Good for when the bagels are a bit past super fresh as well.

 

[ssdurn]

Toasted Onion Bagel with Cream Cheese...can't beat it!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

There's no such thing as an onion bagel. That's a platzel.

 

[ohmyliver]

There's no such thing as an onion bagel. That's a platzel.

erm, according to whom?

eta, you are aware that that platzel is a different type of jewish bread (its a flatbreadish roll with a dip in the middle, rather than the bagel/beigel's hole) than a beigel...

 

[rutabowa]

chopped herring fresh from brick lane. they;re good cos they're small enough, when you get them from most shops it's like trying to eat a pint of raw dough.

 

[Mallard]

Onion for me although I've only eaten about 3 bagels in my life.