"El Bagel is like Courage in LA or Apollo in NYC, the kind of shop that acts as a new-school bagel ambassador to a world all too eager to declare the line not worth it. Don’t listen to those people. The El Bagel empire is built on a flawless bagel. The exterior has a blistered crust full of dozens of tiny bubbles. You can take home a bag of them with a tub of schmear, but these bagels shine brightest as one of the dozen or so sandwiches on the menu. And there’s a location in Coconut Grove, too." - ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo