Bagel Inquiry

[watercolorblue.livejournal.com]

This is gonna sound strange, but....I need to buy bagels tomorrow morning, and I don't know where to get decent ones around here. Where can a person find good bagels in the Davis/Porter/Medford area?

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[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Shaw's is now selling pretty good "Imported from New York!" bagels in their bakery section.

Is their cheese "Imported from Vermont?" Are their potatoes "Imported from Idaho?" Apparently New York achieved Nation-State status at some point.

Back on topic, Bagels by Us, just north of Arlington Center on Mass Ave has H & H bagels, which are widely beloved. Yes, that's right: Bagels by Us sells bagels by Someone Else, apparently. Hey, it wasn't my idea.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

This is a good question, and one that's frustrated me in the past!

The Blue Shirt Cafe has Iggy's bagels...I don't know how fresh they are, is the thing. But it's a good place to start.

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

good luck! as someone from the ny area i can honestly say the bagels i've gotten around davis are total crap. i say just bite the bullet and drive to brookline or newton -- better quality (rosenfeld's in newton, kugel's in coolidge corner, etc).

[cold-cold-water.livejournal.com]

oh, and i forgot to mention that i posted this exact same question when i first moved to davis! some posters suggested the magnificent muffin in teele (which i haven't tried), blue shirt or pemberton for iggy's, and diesel's bagels (which i actually find kind of gross..they're like large hunks of wonder bread that happened to have been shaped into a circular form).

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for Newton, but most of the bagels in Coolidge Corner suck, too. I'm not familiar with Kugel's, but I know Kupel's were crap. I don't think they even make them properly.

[cos]

Kupel's bagels are strange and unique, their own special style. Some people love them.

I always go to Rosenfelds in Newton Center if I can. I think those are the best bagels in metro Boston. Plus, they support wbrs :)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll compromise the judgement -- maybe they don't suck, but they aren't true bagels. :)

[marmota.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there is a Breugger's directly across Mass Ave from the Porter Square T stop.

[swingchickie.livejournal.com]

there is.

and the various whole foods markets have decent bagels as well, they might actually be iggy's. the finagle a bagel in harvard square is great too.

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

katz bagel bakery
139 park st, Chelsea
been there since 1933. Best bagels around.
the area is a pit, but the bagels are well worth it.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Don't have an answer for your question, but... do I know you from somewhere?

[watercolorblue.livejournal.com]

You might! I'm not sure who you are, though.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know!

erg.

Not that I want to bring up bad memories, but we shared a mutual, erm, "aquaintance" (what feels like) a couple of years ago. There was a CD involved at the end. I shall not mention it again.

Anyway. nice to meet you! Thought you were interesting back then, but only knew you secondhand. Maybe you knew me secondhand as well.

[watercolorblue.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
yes....I stole a Kate Bush CD from someone, and was rightfully hunted down by the cops and arrested in Spring of 2004. they just let me out on parole a couple of weeks ago. ;-)

your LJ name is familiar. did you use to share an apartment with the victim of my theft?

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes! Damn, 1.5 years for CD theft? That's tough! I actually just realised I knew you from somewhere else, too. Everytime I realise how small the world can be, it hurts my brains, and I get so excited.

Yeah, I used to live with Them, until She started to have a problem with another friend. Living... now there's an amusing term.

And I forgot, you met Brian during that ordeal, right? Did you donate to his Toby/truffle fund? Have you ever tried his truffles? *drool*

[cos]

*laugh* This thread made me go look at your userinfo, and realize that I know you :) Hadn't remembered your LJ name.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Dude, you know *everyone*.

[cos]

Hmm, does that mean I know you? I don't recognize you from your userinfo.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Actually, you might talk to Rhett or Amy at True Grounds (Ball Square) and ask if you can buy a bunch, or where they get theirs from. They're good people, and they had a bagel I didn't mind (I'm not a bagel person).

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

I like the Iggy's bagels at Pemberton Farms. For some reason they taste better to me than Iggy's bagels bought elsewhere. Kupel's bagel-and-challah catered my wedding and I liked their bagels, but it's a different style -- Cos is right. But it may also be true that I wasn't paying much attention to bagels at that point.