Myer's Bagels
Restaurant · South Burlington ·
Wood-fired Montreal-style bagels with creative spreads & sandwiches
Wood-fired Montreal-style bagels with creative spreads & sandwiches
"I highlighted a photo showing Burlington, Vermont bakery Myer’s Bagel Bakery apparently using a cartoon bagel mascot that bears a suspicious similarity to St-Viateur Bagel’s mascot, a resemblance first shared by a Montreal-based photo aggregator." - Eater Staff
"A few months earlier I noticed an identical bagel-man show up at this shop in Burlington, Vermont; in that case Myer’s Bagels had apparently been granted permission to use the logo a long time ago, but St-Viateur nonetheless politely asked that they stop using it going forward." - Tim Forster
"A Vermont bagel shop draws on Montreal-style, wood-fired bagel-making traditions and uses branding that intentionally references the founder of a historic Montreal bakery; its owner learned the craft directly from that bakery’s founder and the Vermont shop maintains familial and craft ties to the original." - Dana Hatic
"I noticed a Burlington, Vermont bakery apparently using a cartoon bagel mascot that looks suspiciously similar to St-Viateur Bagel’s: a photo that appears to be from outside Myer’s shows a bagel character with slightly less webbed fingers, a few more sesame seeds, and an odd gaze toward its own crotch compared with St-Viateur’s all-pupils mascot. Myer’s opened in 1996, which prompted questions about who used the design first, and an update notes that a St-Viateur owner told Eater a previous owner of Myer’s had worked at St-Viateur but suggested Myer’s probably shouldn’t be using the cartoon figure. I also noted the article’s other possibilities — that St-Viateur may have given permission, that the drawing could be in the public domain, or that Myer’s simply borrowed it — but the photographed likeness is striking." - Tim Forster
"For Montreal-style bagels (the smaller, thinner, sweeter, and denser kind) head to Myer’s for a variety all-day bagel sandwich items (unlike certain Montreal bakeries, they’ll put things on your bagel). For the extra-hungry, there’s the McMyer: house-roasted brisket, melted swiss, pickles, cole slaw, fingerling potatoes and “Green Day sauce” (a Thousand Island-style dressing). The sandwich was even featured on bulk eating TV show Man vs. Food. They keep it local with Vermont Coffee Company coffee." - Heather Platt