Brick Lane Beigel Bake

andybrown

Bgl. The rll with the hl 8th December 2007

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The mere mention of the place gets me slavering uncontrollably like a Pavlovian Pomeranian with mercury poisoning.

There is nothing dignified, sophisticated or "oh aren't we being multi-cultural" about this place. You sidestep London's best-placed begging pitch, you wander steamy-spectacled into the last hot hurrah of the Jewish East End, you queue with the cabbies and the ravers and the Shoreditch spuffers, you ask, you get, you pay, you're out. What do you need, a manual?

At the wrong end (if there is one) of Brick Lane's neon-drenched passanda and pilau paradise, the bakery's policy remains very simple; let's make beigels better than anyone else in London, let's sell them ridiculously cheap, let's never close.

The fact that their black breads, chollas and chocolate brownies are exemplary is almost an irrelevance - everyone in their right mind comes for one of two things, smoked salmon and cream cheese, or hot salt beef and mustard. In a beigel.

On a cold winter's night, in the blank space between alcohol and a sweaty night bus, the black hole of the beigel is the event horizon to my appetite's atmospheric particle, drawing me inexorably towards it, filled with moist chewy salty hunks of brisket, oozing with the sweet hot bite of english mustard and comehereyoubeautycometopapa!

Aasthaminocha

Good food 13th November 2007

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Although probably I liked it coz I was starving!
:D

stumitch

A Sunday Morning Treat 13th November 2007

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Visit Columbia Road flower market, cruise the junk shops and stalls at Brick Lane, then drop in here for sustenance. Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese are fantastic!

Shona

Bargain bagels 16th October 2007

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Always busy not matter when you go. The salt beef bagels area bargain, with enough meat to fill 2 bagels. If you passing make sure you stop and try one. The cakes are super cheap as well.

GarethFoote

14th August 2007

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Cheap and tasty bagels with a variety of filling choices. Good to see they don't scrimp on the mayo too. That winds me up. PS good eccles cakes too.

london

30th May 2007

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Agree to all the other positive comments about the price, quality convenience etc....but just to add that last time I was there with my two young children and they were asked by the bakers to come around to the back, given a dough ball each, and got to put it in the machine - we kept the ones they touched.....really nice and friendly touch - great to see this place is still open.

shelo9

5th May 2007

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Best salt beef bagels and the cheesecake is like the new york cheesecake Well worth trekking up to especially in the middle of night when you meet random cool people with great taste!

Umran

5th May 2007

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The salt beef bagels can't be beaten! And have the cheesecake for dessert (an unbelievable 60p!)

Haven't tried much else there.

Plus it's open 24 hours so you can get to your salt beef bagel fix at any time of the day or night!

kellytron

25th April 2007

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A salt beef and mustard bagel is the best £2.50 (or is it £2.30?!?) you can spend.

And I love their selection of diet soft drinks (random considering the food on offer but it wins brownie points with me)

I think I have a problem though as I keep on trying to find excuses to go to that end of brick lane at meal times...

qwghlm

22nd March 2007

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This place has saved my life on more than one occasion. The bagels here are superb, not only at 4 in the morning but at any time of day.