8/8/2023 0 Comments Utopia bagels reviews![]() ![]() I'll usually settle for toasted, but a fresh, hot bagel with butter is like nothing else on earth. This means either getting it really fresh or toasting it. A bagel with cream cheese only needs to be warm to be good, but with butter it needs to be hot. My personal favorite is a simple bagel with butter – preferably with sesame seeds but I'm flexible. Utopia still makes them fresh, now in an elegant open kitchen, and they are some of the best I've ever had. Still, the wait it worth it.īagels are synonymous with New York City, but it's getting increasingly hard to find good ones in the city. It took us nearly 30 minutes to get some bagels this Sunday, most of it spent in a long line that wriggled its way through the store and then out the door. ![]() Utopia Bagels recently renovated and expanded, but it's still insanely crowded on a weekend morning. Love Utopia Bagels! The best part about being sometimes nocturnal and an early bird the rest of the time is that this is just a 5 minute drive north of the LIE at 4 am. ![]() Free parking lot in the back as you do have to pay for street parking via the central parking box during posted hours. It was absolutely stupendous with a generous helping of lox. Definitely worth it and then some! Got the lox and cream cheese with the slice of onion on an egg bagel last time. I have also stopped by on a Saturday at 7:45 am when the line was 14 deep but it was moving. Yes I do need a whole suitcase for the lot but for the 50 ex NYers in my group in Az waiting for Utopia and the next pot luck, this is a no brainer.I got there at 3:50 am and there were 3 cars already parked with folks waiting and ready 2 more pulled up by 4:04 am. So lucky that they open at 4 am when I can get my fix of the fresh hot goodies- I love the everything, garlic, onion and the bialys- and pack another 9 dozen before I drop off the rental car at Budget JFK and get on the 7 am to Phoenix Sky Harbor. Based on recent visits, the argument could be made that Murray's bagel-too big, and typically a bit sweet-just isn't what it used to be, so what's the difference? Still, recognition where due-this is one of the better operations on the entire West Side, south of 59th Street.Best Bagel and Bialy Bar None in New York! I second Deborah's statement in her review below that this is the #1 and tastiest Bagel made with Love and NY Water. A few years back, Murray's relented, and now you get to ruin your bagel, just the way you like it. But as anyone who has spent more than five minutes in a New York bagel shop can tell you, the customer is always right, and possibly will also fight you, and everyone in the store for good measure. Give this Greenwich Village institution some credit-for the longest time, they fought back. Used to be, according to conventional wisdom, that only a second-rate operation would allow such a travesty the best bagel bakers took too much pride in their work for such foolishness to go unchecked. There was a time when you could separate the best shops in New York from the rest by the presence of a commercial-grade toaster behind the counter. Saveur Magazine raised eyebrows a few years ago, calling this one of the finest in the entire country-they were right. (There are three Maine shops on this list, and there probably should have been more.) When Allen Smith opened up shop in Lewiston the better part of a decade ago, he wasn't the first to tinker with the notion of a naturally leavened, long-fermented, and wood-fired bagel, but these days, Forage, which has since branched out to Portland's Munjoy Hill neighborhood, makes Maine's best bagel right now, gorgeously light and beautifully structured, with an exterior that snaps and crackles like popcorn. For a state with a scattered population less than Manhattan's, this is a group of people that is absolutely spoiled, and certainly for bagels: There isn't another off-the-beaten-path state quite so excited by the idea of the reinvention of the bagel. What can be said about Maine's enviable baking culture, except that if you know, you know, and if you don't, take a little road trip. ![]()
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