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First, the food: excellent, authentic, fresh-from-the-oven NY style bagels. Well-designed, satisfying sandwiches which always exceed my expectations. Killer deals on breakfast combos, where you... More
First, the food: excellent, authentic, fresh-from-the-oven NY style bagels. Well-designed, satisfying sandwiches which always exceed my expectations. Killer deals on breakfast combos, where you get some sort of egg-bagel arrangement and coffee for a very low price. This place opens at some ungodly hour of the morning (6 or 6:30) and if you have to get an early start on a long morning, there's no better place to grab a hot bagel sandwich for road food. They also have a sunny, open dining area which is popular with the local lunch crowd, and they carry the usual required side stuff: a cooler of juices, a rack of chip bags, big cookies, and so on. They also sell their own blends of (pricy) flavored cream cheeses.
The staff is young and sweet, but always a little foggy. Maybe it's the early mornings. The line can be 5 deep, and there'll be 4 people behind the counter, and everything still moves at an unperturbed crawl. Order an espresso drink and it's like putting glue in the gears. And you may get the wrong change, but they'll be really nice about fixing it when you point it out.
It's worth it for the great food -- just don't be in a flaming hurry, and you'll be glad you came.
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Check out the Bagel Deli on Capitol Hill (on 15th Ave E) for some New York style bagels. These are not the fluff-balls you can find at chain stores.
For hot, fresh ones, try a weekend morning. ... More
Check out the Bagel Deli on Capitol Hill (on 15th Ave E) for some New York style bagels. These are not the fluff-balls you can find at chain stores.
For hot, fresh ones, try a weekend morning. You can sip drip coffee and feast on a wide variety of freshly boiled bagels -- flavors range from plain, salt, everything, cinnamon raisin, egg, wheat, and many more. They also sell tubs of cream cheese in various flavors, bagel sandwiches, and soups.
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