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It’s in the boiling and the malt.

This week’s mission: ritzy granola and crunchy focaccia sticks.

Absolute Bagels, 107th and Bway.

Absolute Bagels is exactly what you are searching for. Not too big or doughy, crisp on the outside and soft in the middle. It’s on 108th and Broadway.

absolute bagels on the far upper west side and murray’s down in chelsea and the village are the two best bagels i’ve had in manhattan. if you’re willing to travel to brooklyn, i really like bagel hole in park...

The bagels are pretty good at Kupel’s, but don’t be seduced by anything else in the bakery cases: their pastries are absolutely awful.

Oh, absolutely. But I gotta say, jalapeno-cheddar cheese = pretty goyische! ;) I seem to remember when even cinnamon-raisin bagels were extremely suspect. (sveet? you vant sveet begel??) Plain, poppy, sesame, salt, and onion, the...

Stein’s, absolutely. They’re really from up North (Philly, I think) and they do import not only H&H bagels but a lot of perfectly NE-style Jewish and Italian Deli foods. Their cream cheese is Philadelphia.

Another good bagel place north of 85th is Absolute Bagels on Broadway and 107/108th-ish.

If you’re willing to walk down a little but Absolut Bagels on Broadway and 109th is great.

That would be Absolute Bagel, I think.

Absolute Bagels, 2788 Broadway & W. 108 St. Kossar’s Bialys, 367 Grand St. at Norfolk.

Absolute Bagels 2788 Broadway

I would like to get some bagels delivered to my office on Friday (it is near Bryant Park). Other than H&H, do any of the really “good” places (i.e. Absolute, Ess-a, etc.) deliver to midtown offices? I’m only...