NWR: NY Times Top 17 Bagels in NYC

Yule Kim said:
... the best hack is to just buy a loaf of sourdough and put cream cheese and lox on that...
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I'm back in Nyc now, but I lived for many years outside of Nyc and it never occurred to me to find a hack. Maybe my Bagel Die-Hard cred will get questioned. I've always just focused on the best baked goods in the local area (but without cream cheese, which I've never liked)....

Because I do love bagels and they go deep in my psyche from childhood, but I don't think they rise to the heights of some other breads/baked goods, which is why I refuse to wait on those Viral Lines.
 
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Rahsaan said:
I'm back in Nyc now, but I lived for many years outside of Nyc and it never occurred to me to find a hack. Maybe my Bagel Die-Hard cred will get questioned. I've always just focused on the best baked goods in the local area (but without cream cheese, which I've never liked)....

Because I do love bagels and they deep in my psyche from childhood, but I don't think they rise to the heights of some other breads/baked goods, which is why I refuse to wait on those Viral Lines.
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tbh, I don't eat lox and cream cheese that often either. But, sometimes, making an open-faced sandwich with lox and cream cheese (onions, tomato, capers) on a slice of Tartine oat porridge bread really does hit the spot (especially for a Sunday brunch)

If I really wanted to put the effort in, probably ordering out the smoked salmon from Swan Oyster Depot (you don't have to wait in line to pick up) would be the ultimate SF lox and cream cheese experience. But getting up to Nob Hill is a bit too much for me now.
 
Jeff Grossman said:
It's a jumping lunch street... also two dumpling shops, a Latinx place, an Indian place, a hidden sushi shop, Madman Espresso, and a bunch more.
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I actually saw this humorous video about the part of 42nd street that borders Bryant Park and how it got the nickname "Slop Alley" because of all the slop bowl chains on it. Linked below...apparently the ultimate midtown NYC lunch experience.

 
Jayson Cohen said:
I agree. I've always found their lox too salty. I also don't like Barney Greengrass's bagels or lox, and I lived 5 minutes from there for 17 years. Among the NYC classics, I have a strong preference for Zabar's fish, and their bagels are decent too (used to be better).
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I think the whitefish salad at Russ and Daughters is the thing to go for. I always found it really satisfying.

I finally got a lox and sturgeon sandwich from there a couple of years ago. Lox was good; sturgeon was kind of rubbery and disappointing.
 
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