The New Yorker abroad's eternal question: Where to get good bagels around here?

By adamg on Wed, 05/23/2012 - 11:39pm

Sooner or later, every single New Yorker who moves up here does what Tara Vuono did and ask:

Best bagels in/around Boston? (from an ex-NYer, and yes I know it's cliche to miss the bagels and pizza)

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Dining

Bagels

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Comments

I'm confused

By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:50am.

Does he want the best bagels or does he want New York style bagels?

Katz still the winner all around!

By Brian Riccio on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 1:37am.

Love those pizza bagels!

Kupel's was always my Boston-area bagel place but I stumbled upon Bagel Rising on Comm Ave in Allston over the winter and have converted. It's just a little shopfront but their bagels are the real thing. I used to live a block away from H&H so I've had the real thing.

Since pizza was mentioned: Otto's in Harvard Square. No, it isn't typical NY-style "Ray's" pizza (the crust is more like traditional Italian pizza), it's better. If you'd told me before I had it that I was going to rave about pizza with squash and cranberries on it I'd have told you to go screw yourself but it was awesome (and they do more traditional toppings too).

Uh oh......

By merlinmurph on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 7:08am.

This could get ugly, maybe as bad as a bicycling thread. :-)

IMHO

By anon on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 8:20am.

Kupel's on Harvard St. near Coolidge Corner, Brookline for bagels and for pizza, Presto in Cleveland Circle. But if you want the best pizza in the United States, drive to New Haven and go to Pepe's on Wooster St. I will accept no argument on this one.

Argument

By Kaz on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:35am.

Mouse turds in the dough at Kupel's recently. Not a few either. Like more rat turds than dough..."too many to count" as the inspector put it. They may have fixed this problem...but personally, I prefer a cooling off period after the health inspector has slammed a place as badly as he slammed Kupel's in February.

Presto's over Pino's? Never.

By issacg on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 12:27pm.

I will not comment on the bagel issues or the New Haven pizza, but Presto's over Pino's in Cleveland Circle? Never.

The Twitter had good suggestion

By MC Slim JB on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 8:24am.

Try Katz's and Rosenfeld's, and recognize that you can't get extraordinary bagels in New York anymore, either.

How about Montreal?

By Michael Kerpan on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 11:14am.

Or have they gone downhill there too?

NY Bagels

By Scratchie on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 10:15pm.

I've gotten really good bagels within the last 5-10 years in New York and even Secaucus, NJ. And even the average Cafe Metro bagel (as of this week) is better than 90% of what you get up here. I blame Dunkin Donuts, personally.

Cafe Fresh in Needham, no

By IndieBean on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 8:54am.

Cafe Fresh in Needham, no question. So worth the drive, absolutely amazing.

Everyone knows you can't get

By NotWhitey on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 11:10am.

Everyone knows you can't get good bagels in Boston. Go back to New York.

Rosenfeld's in Newton Centre

By Dani B. on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 9:25pm.

Rosenfeld's in Newton Centre is the best!