Boston bagels boffo

Katz is so embedded in the Chelsea community that people from here of many different nationalities will look at you and laugh if you try to claim a soft bagel is a real bagel. When I bring them somewhere and I see people who have never seen a real bagel before I tell them to take it slow at first, they are not made for eating very quickly.

everywhere these days, you're not really spending much time there. That said, I agree that the new kids doing bagels these days, especially Better Bagels, Bagelsaurus and Exodus, are turning out the best bagels we've seen in a while. Mamaleh's bagel is pretty respectable, too (and they do a mean bialy). I remember Kupel's being great years ago, but they don't deserve a mention among our top tier anymore.