"It’s not news that the best New York-style bagels are often found in the unlikeliest of places — New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Long Island, apparently — and this version from Omar’s Indian Fine Cuisine is no exception. A reader wrote in last December informing us that “an odd new restaurant” had opened a few blocks from my apartment in Prospect Heights, serving not just tikka masala and the usual Indian American dishes but also pizza and bagels. Sure enough, when I arrived on Memorial Day to an empty restaurant, a few types of bagels were hanging in baskets on a far wall. I ordered an everything bagel with scallion-vegetable cream cheese (around $4), which came lightly toasted by default and had all the makings of one of New York’s (or New Jersey’s or California’s) great doughy bagels. — Luke Fortney, reporter" - Eater Staff
