Brick Lane Beigel Bake

abcjess

hungers best friend 2nd September 2008

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especially late at night, after a night out when theres about a million other places around trying to sell you absolute unconsumable rubbish. It's a nice feeling swallowing down their soft bagels knowing that you aren't gonna chuck that up in the morning - your stomach just wouldn't allow it!

I've heard alot about the salt beef here, but have yet to try it myself but I can comment on their quick service - i found it a bit dinner ladie lunch queue ish, which just brings feelings of nostalgia, good nostalgia. With such generous fillings (and prices that reflect how much change you'd probably have in your pocket at 3am) it deserves atlest 6 michelin stars.

shopaholcleo

always fab 1st September 2008

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I love this place! Open day or night, it doesn't seem to be affected by the credit crunch and the bagels remain cheap. There can be a queue, but there are always so many people working here, so you'll always get served quickly. I always grab a dozen to freeze and they still taste good once defrosted. The cakes and pastries are also good, and reasonable, so a lunch could cost you less than £2, which is rare for London. Smoked Salmon and cream cheese is a must. It's always lively and has a real East End feel, and I shall be having many more visits.

trinity

Yummy 26th August 2008

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One of my favourite places to eat, 24 hour yummy, delicious Beigels. My fave is deffinatly the salt beef and mustard, altho My mum like chopped herring and cream cheese (blleurrghh) well each to their own. Great cakes too reccomend the carrot cake.

moner

Great traditional Beigels 23rd August 2008

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What can I say apart from great beigel. I highly recommended this place. It has clean and tidy premises. They seem to have good hygiend praxctices whilst preparing food. The shop has lots of fillings available and the beigels are freshly baked with a traditional taste. If you like beigels then this is the place for you. Other jewish specialities are also available also. The shop does get very busy as it is extremely popular, so you may have to queue-but as they say all good things are worth the wait..... The staff are very friednly and nice and offr a good service. Beigels are freshly made up to your order specifications in front of you.

chrisp

London's worst-kept secret 13th August 2008

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Hello and welcome to my latest obsession - The Brick Lane Salt Beef Beigel. I feel the same way about these little beauties as I did when I first realised that the outwardly boring little pub at the end of my road actually turned out some of the best food in South West London - namely joy at the discovery, tinged with regret that it had taken me so long to make the effort to do so. God knows how many times I'd wasted the chance to try one whilst trooping up and down Brick Lane, dodging the hawkers for mediocre curry houses. A friend suggested the other day that if Boris Johnston added to his mayoral manifesto that every crappy curry house on Brick Lane had to by law post a sign on their front door reading "Just Go To Tayyabs", then even he'd vote for him.

Anyway, what's so special about salt beef? It's a fair question, and one I have asked myself until recently. It doesn't sound particularly appetising does it, salty beef. But try and imagine half a dozen generous slabs of juicy pink flesh, tasty rather than overly salty, bursting out of a georgeously soft fresh beigel (they churn them out at an incredible rate, so they will generally be very fresh), zinging with fiery English mustard and with a couple of gherkins on the side. There is a satisfying 'squeak' as you bite through the bread into the meat, from the unique texture of the preserved beef, and the fat in the meat oozes flavour.

Needless to say, there are numerous outlets in London purporting to sell 'salt beef sandwiches' that are actually just depressing mass-produced 'beef ham' and nothing like the real thing. Don't be fooled. In my (incredibly limited) experience, as well as Brick Lane the Brass Rail bar in Selfridge's Food Hall also does some great (if overpriced) salt beef, and I'm sure many people will have their own favourites.

Brick Lane is about 15 minutes walk from my workplace; the chances of me making it through the winter without a cardiac episode are diminishing rapidly. But damn it, the salt beef beigels are cheap, gorgeous and uniquely London. They are almost worth dying for.

lenalouise

salt beef is the way to go 29th July 2008

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I've always been a salmon and cream cheese kind of bagel girl but the other reviews convinced me to try out the salt beef. After a lazy Sunday afternoon hanging around Brick lane, I made my boyfriend accompany me to find Beigel bake and promptly ordered myself a bagel with salt beef and mustard. I really enjoyed it, the beef is so lovely, just the right texture and flavour. She did go a bit crazy with the mustard though...a bit much for me but I braved it and finished the whole thing anyway! I think I need to do what the other reviewers are doing and buy loads and keep them in the freezer.

french_girl

Best bagels in world (probably) 21st July 2008

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I love these and the best way to persuade me to take 2 buses and 2 tubes to visit my friend nearby.

Personally I love them with just cream cheese and tomatoe or just butter or with salad cream and cucumber if I'm in a really sulty food mood.

And open 24 hours great. One piece of advice if your taking them home to fill yourself / freeze ask for the ones that are still hot so they are as fresh as they get. Though to be honest the place is so busy the bagels would only ever be a few hours since making / baking.

Plain straight forward service no have a nice day fakeness

lva

Brick Lane Beigel Bake 9th July 2008

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Sometimes I think this might be the actual best place in the whole of London. Delicious and very cheap bagels, available at any time of the day or night. Fantastic in just about every respect.

mazphd at 09/07/08

'best place in the 'whole' of london'. hmm this is a MUST to try :-)

lva at 10/07/08

Definitely - please do go! If I was being really honest I might add the qualifier that the times when I think this is the *actual* best place in the whole of London do tend to be the times when I badly want a tasty bagel late at night... which is fairly often, frankly.

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ChloeBuxton

Poor service but good beigel 20th March 2008

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When I went (my first time), they hardly had anything we asked for because their ovens were broken. Pretty poor service too as the staff kept chatting amongst themselves and didn't even notice us at the counter and we were starving!! The beigels made up for it (but only just).

SiReine

Beats any bagel from the Lower east side of NY 20th March 2008

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Andy's review is spot on (and v. funny).

I never really rated bagels till I had one of those. On a visit to the Big Apple I thought I could find a salt beef bagel that would beat the ones from Brick Lane...

Nop! Didn't happen...
They're so nice you can have them plain!

I have been known for leaving the shop with bags full of bagels which will then travel back to West London and end up straight in the freezer!

On a lazy Sunday morning...while you put a few bagels in the oven (2/3 minutes), you can rustle up some scrambled eggs, add a couple of slices of smoked salmon onto plates and Bob's Uncle!

Posh breakfast doesn't have to be time consuming... and that leave you more time for.... other things!

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