Brick Lane Beigel Bake

schijndel

21st March 2007

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Used to live right around the corner. This place serves the best bagels in town at incredible prices. Salmon and cream cheese is my favorite. Somehow salt beef with extra mustard seems to be the miracle cure for a hangover!

benzevenbergen

20th March 2007

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The reason I joined this site was to hype this place. Whenever I'm in London I HAVE to go here to eat bagels. Salmon is a winner, so is the cream cheese and of course the salt beef with extra mustard (get a drink with it, or else you might explode). Also great after a nights drinking!

jo104

24 hour beigel fix 20th March 2007

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At the end of Brick Lane road is a fantastically cheap beigel shop and more its open 24 hours a day 7 days a week except Christmas.

The beigels are made in the traditional Jewish way boiled until cooked on the surface and then baked in the oven. You can also buy pastries & onion platzels.

Fillings are so cheap & its more traditional choices such as cream cheese, egg, tuna & salmon. I had a fantastic hot salt beef bagel thick fresh slices of meat packed into the bagel was only GBP2.30

gastrosnob

20th March 2007

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An absolute institution and part of my life for a good 3 years.

Ideally located at the end of Brick Lane, a night of drinking in Shoreditch/Bethnall Green isn't complete without a Salt Beef Bagel with lashings of hot mustard.

Once drove from Elephant and Castle with a friend at 3 in the morning to buy an entire party a bagel.

Great stuff.

RonStar

15th February 2007

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Open 24 hour; great for a midnight-snack

yahnyinlondon

Mmm Beigels 17th January 2007

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Ideally located on the way I go to catch the bus home. This bakery produces top notch bagels. Im not a big fan of the salt beef but the cream cheese is a winner. They also do a mean sausage roll if you are looking for something a little bit more greasey.

Extra points for the interesting clientele, no matter what time you visit.

Reynolds

24 hour goodness 9th December 2006

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Beautiful beigels at all hours of the day. If you are looking for a policeman or ambulance you'll often find one parked outside sneaking a crafty salt beef.

At night you can even take time out to chat to the homeless folks who are attracted to the smell and rapid turnover of slightly drunk (and therefore more generous) customers.

I've driven miles to get a beigel from this place and it's always been worth it.

rkn

Mmm Beigel! 13th November 2006

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Which bakery are people talking about? There are almost two right next to each other, I personally prefer the one nearer the top end of Brick Lane. And it is superb, to our friend from New Yorker - poppy seeds?! None of that poncy stuff here! ;)

draftmatic

Salted Beef Beigel with Mustard... and I'd ask for pickle as well 25th October 2006

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Anytime of day or night there is a tasty little beigel waiting for you on Brick Lane.

but pass on the coffee.

alevy

Honestly, Pretty Good 27th September 2006

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I'm originally from the New York metro area, and I have a thing about bagels. That is to say, most of what is called a "bagel" in this world is not actually a bagel, but rather a mediocre bread roll with a hole in the middle.

(Note to Montrealers: I love Montreal bagels as well, but you will certainly admit it's a different product, and in any case that ain't what I'm talking about here).

Bagels are special. They require extra gluten in the flour, they need to be boiled in a special solution, and then they need to be baked in a piping hot oven. I can make a pretty damned good one myself, and I believe I've debunked the "it's about the water" myth by having done so in places far and wide.

So, admittedly, I was skeptical when a friend told me about this place. I assumed that you'd find the same crap one finds in the Bagel Factory, or any other place that uses the term bagel, ahem, loosely.

But I made the trip to Brick Lane on a Sunday morning, and to my surprise and delight, the bagels were actually good. The place *smells* like a proper bagel bakery. You can see that they boil before they bake. The bagels are chewy on the inside and not quite crispy on the outside.

They only come in plain (can somebody please ship them some sesame and poppy seeds?), but they do the job.

And the other reviewer is right about the rye bread -- it's great.