On 24/03/2012 9:47 AM, sf wrote:
ter I'm sure.
>
> I was used to giving my facial muscles a workout eating water bagels
> from Holey Bagel so before I got used to the texture, chewing on
> Noah's was like eating a pillow. Unfortunately, Noah's is about the
> best there is for that type of bagel because "real" bagels are few and
> far between. I went on a bagel hunt (on foot not by taxi) around
> where I was staying in Midtown Manhattan once and discovered that
> finding a decent NY bagel is like going on a snipe hunt. Where ever
> you are, the person you're talking to wants you to go somewhere else
> (which to a non-New Yorker seems like the other side of town even if
> it's not) just to find a decent bagel. The experience taught me that
> a decent bagel is far from ubiquitous in NYC too.
>

Good bagels are almost non existent in this area. The grocery stores
carry factory made and/or in store bakery bagels, but they are crappy.
When my son lived in Montreal there were a number of places where we
could get incredible fresh made bagels. Now he is in Toronto and there
is bakery about two blocks from his apartment that has great Montreal
style bagels.

A local bakery has started making bagels. They are the best you can get
in the area, but they are a far cry from those Montreal bagels.