Best Bagels in New York City

We've been closely-nay, obsessively-following the state of the bagel in New York these days, and we'll just come out and say it: Fred's cafe at Barney's makes bagels that are just as good, if not better, than any of the city's other contenders for Top Bagel. Here's how they're made.

Bagels are one of New York's most iconic foods - and for good reason. There must be something magical in the water here in New York that gets the perfect amount of chewiness outside and softness inside. Our friends at Yelp helped us put together a list of the top 10 bagel shops in the city.

While Italian immigrants were busy making this city great by giving us pizza, their Eastern European counterparts set to pickling cucumbers and tomatoes, smoking fish, and rolling bagels and bialys by hand. Long New York's unofficial breadstuff, an outstanding bagel starts and ends with proper technique and a near-continual cook,...

We can talk about pizza or talk about pastrami. But if New York has a corner on any one foodstuff, it's the humble bagel. A true New York bagel is shaped by hand, boiled and then baked, giving you something that's lightly crusted, pleasantly chewy and a perfect base for sandwiches.

Some days you just don't want to get out of bed, even when you are in New York. We were so tired/comfy/ lazy that we managed to sleep in till mid day. By the time we got up and dressed we were famished and set out in search of food.

New York City is one of the most culturally diverse cities found anywhere in the world, bringing in a unique food culture that brings in the best that the world has to offer. All these different cultures bring in their own styles of food, to where some might claim that New York could be the food mecca of the modern world.

Television personality Ted Allen knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day-and he has a soft spot for , the quintessential New Yorker morning meal. So where does he go for the best breakfast and ?

New York City is the undisputed bagel capital of the country, if not the world (we see you, Montreal, but that's a debate for a different day). Much has been written about why exactly New York bagels are so good, but before you can dive into the more ambiguous and subjective realms of the bagel world, one must begin with the definable.

If you have trouble viewing this video click here: http://youtu.be/wRWdNzuSLck Bagels are one of the most common types of breakfast item anywhere I've traveled around the world. However, when it comes to quality New York-style bagels and Montreal-style bagels reign supreme.

Of all its signature foodstuffs, bagels are arguably the most synonymous with New York (sorry, ). We'll use them for a , for bagels and lox, or spread them with plain old shmear.

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Bagels are great year-round, but there's something about the falling temperatures that just makes a person throw carb caution to the wind and want to start storing for winter. A puffy coat, after all, is well known to hide a multitude of bready sins.