whats the best bagel filling??we are coming from uk to visit new york?

Question

we are coming to new york soon and staying at the roosevelt what the best place near us for bagels and what fillings would u recomend?

Answer 1

Note: a "real" New York bagel is boiled before it's baked. Every deli, coffee shop and grocer sells bagels, but not that many are made like that. I like Murray's in the Village on Sixth Avenue and 13th Street and Kossar's on Grand and Essex in the Lower East Side. Also, chocolate cinammon bagels are an abomination. Bagels shouldn't have anything sweet like blueberries. Try either plain, salted, garlic, onion, poppyseed, pumpernickel, salt or an everything bagel. Traditionally goes with cream cheese (and smoked salmon with raw onion). My preference is to bring the bagels home and toast them, spread with butter and orange marmelade or melt bleu cheese on the hot toasted bagel. (They're very filling)

Answer 2

Cream cheese is the ultimate spread for your bagel.

Most places have a variety of cream cheese fillings: veggie cream cheese, lox spread, etc...

If you want to find good bagels - these places are worth the trip -

Ess-A-Bagel - 359 1st Ave, At 21st St
Phone: [phone]

H&H Bagels - 551 2nd Ave, Btwn 80th & 81st St
Also at 80th & Broadway

If you want a place near your hotel, I really like the bagels at:

Times Square Hot Bagels
200 W 44th St between Broadway & 7th Ave

Answer 3

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Answer 4

FYI there is a Zabar's right in Grand Central which is a block from the Roosevelt and also one 3rd Ave and 46th and they have some of the best real NY Bagels. What you use for fillikng is really a matter of taste -- I like Lox Spread -- Cream Cheeses with bits of Lox in it.

Answer 5

Murray's Bagels - Kalamata cream cheese on a whole wheat bagel.

Answer 6

I recommend that you check out Zabar's, a NYC classic, at 80th and Broadway.

The perfect bagel topping: cream cheese, a slice of munster cheese, a heaping portion of lox (smoked salmon), a slice of tomato, and a slice of onion.

Answer 7

OK before you come to NYC some cultural info. Bagels are not "filled" nor are baked potatoes. Doughnuts are filled. Don't ask for "jacket potatoes". Bagels deserve lox, lox and cream cheese and maybe you can get corned beef. Don't ask for "salt beef". Good luck in your quest.

Answer 8

I would say either cream cheese or butter and jam. But since you are going to be in New York try a variety of foods. If you like hot dogs you have got to have a nathan's. they are delicious.

Answer 9

The best bagel filling? In my humble opinion there is no best bagel filling. Bagels are revolting. Horrible dry unleven bread. The very fact that McDonalds now sell them is testimony to this. But if you insist on having one I would recommend pork as a tasty filling. A nice thick filleted cutlet of prime pork with a smattering of pepper. Hmmm. Delicious. Add some nice shrimp to it for a delectable surf and turf experience.

Answer 10

Cream cheese and lox... and I agree with a previous poster about going to grab a hotdog at Nathans for lunch one day. Enjoy your trip! It should be a nice surprise how "cheap" everything is here. My mom went to London a few months ago and died at the exchange rate.