let’s do this - best DC bagel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:H+H bagel is coming soon!

That’s fantastic news!

Hooray!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baked by Yael. Perfect size and texture, inside and out. A little heavy handed on the everything seasoning.

Ugh. Just no. We live near there and keep trying to give them another try but I really dislike them. Most of the time the bagels are malformed so that one side has a 1/2” diameter. Only about 30% of the time are the bagels warm, and even if you do get them fresh, you have a three hour window in which to eat them before they become hard as a rock where even a toaster won’t make them edible. They also don’t put the damn cream cheese on for you so you have to buy a tub and do it yourself. They also don’t open until 8am. A bagel joint opening so late is sacrilege. When the stars do align, the bagels are pretty good, but that’s almost never. Couple all that with their totally awful decor and it makes me yearn for the incompetence but perfect and consistent bagels of Whatsabagel from the yesteryear of Cleveland Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baked by Yael. Perfect size and texture, inside and out. A little heavy handed on the everything seasoning.

This is the answer.

Disagree. They are not classic NY bagels. They are bread.

[Anonymous]

Chewish Deli and Bagel Uprising!

[Anonymous]

are we talking about best plain or sesame bagel here or all the other flavoral flavors included?

[Anonymous]

Manhattan bagel.

[Anonymous]

Izze’s in bethesda is pretty good. Goldberg’ sis probably better but not being open on Saturday makes it more challenging. The staff at Izze’s is also nicer.

[Anonymous]

Not a huge consumer of bagels, but my office has Pearl’s delivered twice a week, and they remind me of the bagels I had growing up in New York.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Izze’s in bethesda is pretty good. Goldberg’ sis probably better but not being open on Saturday makes it more challenging. The staff at Izze’s is also nicer.

I'm partial to Ize's too. I used to live in that area (White Flint/Pike & Rose) and I miss their bagel sandwiches. The bagels are terrific, the staff is nice, and they have pictures of Katie Ledecky everywhere - maybe she used to stop there after her swim practices while at Stone Ridge?

[Anonymous]

Bullfrog (at least the H St. location) bagels have gone off a cliff in quality. I don't know if they changed their recipe or what but they're now super soft and bready instead of chewy.

I started making my own based on the SeriousEats recipe and I'm never going back. It takes some time investment (about an hour on Thursday night making the dough and an hour on Saturday morning boiling and baking them) but that's a tiny price to pay to have hot, fresh out of the oven GOOD bagels.