Bagels & Co

"Can a place selling kosher pizza and avocado wraps also have some of the Upper West Side’s best bagels? Bagels & Co. (with another location on the UES) is up to the challenge. The shop looks and smells like a neighborhood pizza parlor, with stained glass Tiffany lamps hanging over the counter, and the smells of garlic and tomato hanging in the air. But their bagels are excellent: just as bulging as the challah loaves covering most of a window, with holes that vanish like deep belly buttons. " - bryan kim, will hartman, willa moore, neha talreja, molly fitzpatrick, sonal shah

"Can a place selling kosher pizza, Turkish-style burek, and avocado wraps also make some of upper Manhattan’s best bagels? Bagels & Co. says yes. The Upper West Side shop (with another UES location) looks and smells like a neighborhood pizza parlor, with stained glass Tiffany lamps hanging over the counter, and the smells of garlic and tomato hanging in the air. Their chewy, lightly burnished bagels are excellent, with holes that vanish like deep belly buttons. There are also flagels, if that’s your thing, as well as tables inside and on the sidewalk. Food Rundown photo credit: Emily Schindler Everything Bagel The everything bagel is moderately but uniformly sprinkled, with a few stray oat flakes for fun." - Sonal Shah

"Selected as the best bagel place on the Upper West Side, offering a plain bagel with a schmear of plain cream cheese." - Robert Sietsema

"Originally started as a pop-up, Rosen’s Bagel Co. started selling bagels at Brew and Brew, and eventually the bagels could be found at restaurants and coffee shops all over town. The brick and mortar location on Burnet Road, right by The Domain, evokes classic appetizing stores like Russ & Daughters Cafe in New York City with its cheerful lighting and white tiles. The traditional bagels here are among the best in Austin—slightly chewy, with a golden-brown and crisp outer crust—and like a proper bagel, they don’t need to be toasted (though you can get them toasted on request). Additionally, Rosen’s makes housemade cream cheese, schmears, lox, and whitefish salad for their bagels, (you can also get it all by the pound). Where Rosen’s truly shines, however, are the artfully composed bagel breakfast sandwiches, including the Classic Lox, the Not A Taco, and the Bodega Bagel. The espresso-based drinks here are pretty good, too. photo credit: Holly Dirks Food Rundown photo credit: Holly Dirks Rose N Shine Rosen’s basic bagel breakfast sandwich starts with a fried egg and Sunrise Sauce, a housemade spicy and citrus-y aioli. You can choose your cheese (american, swiss, etc) and protein (bacon, ham, sausage, etc.). You can also get avocado, but you definitely should get a crispy hashbrown. photo credit: Holly Dirks Classic Lox The Classic Lox at Rosen’s comes with the house-smoked and cured lox, tomato, onion, capers, and the star of the show, a schmear of lemon-basil cream cheese that you didn’t know needed to exist until you’ve had it. photo credit: Raphael Brion Not A Taco It’s a bagel in a breakfast taco town, but it’s doing its best to hang. Here you get a fried egg, chorizo, avocado, pickled red onion, and cilantro, all on a jalapeño cheddar bagel. It’s not a taco, but it works. photo credit: Raphael Brion Bodega Bagel The “Bodega Bagel”—with a fried egg, a slice of american cheese, and ketchup, all on a buttered poppy seed bagel that gets pressed and perfectly browned—tastes just like New York, but without the pigeons, the exorbitant rent, and the subways that may or may not come." - Raphael Brion