I assume you mean the Grand bakery? I was there fairly late in the day and the bagel, I think, was hours old so it was difficult for me to assess (definitely chewy as opposed to fluffy a la disgusting "Noahs".) Also, I’m a...

I know this won’t help for the New York area, but I recall Noah's Bagels in LA having chocolate chip bagels. Maybe you can satisfy your craving on your next west-coast trip. Regarding Bruegger’s, I recently spotted an...

Springs shopping center on Mission Blvd between 680 and 880 between Longs and Chaat Cafe. Worth a trek if you’re tired of the crap that Noahs tries to pass off as a bagel.

of Valencia)- in my opinion, a bad bagel. Not rubbery or resilient. Noah's – NOT A BAGEL AT ALL. A hamburger bun with a hole in the middle. Strangely, dough is so wimpy that the mere moisture from cream cheese soaks into the...

-by-side comparison. Golden bagels are the puffed-up roly-poly type a la Noah's, big with hardly any hole in the center. The sesame seed and the poppy seed types were heavily seeded, almost solidly coated on the top crust. Others...

State by a long shot. (Meanwhile, I’m having to make do with Noah's here in the Bay Area — and that ain’t no NYC bagel).

I personally find the bagels too doughy, but my friends like Noah's at Lake and California. Its a local hangout on weekend mornings with Peet’s Coffee and Wild Oats right next door.

Beware of any pizza or bagel shop that invokes some east coast reference in its name. For me, East Coast Bagels lives up to that rule in the same way Noah's NY Bagels did. Squishy rings of puffy dough with no crust to speak of,...

each time. Don’t know if you ever had the pleasure of the potato-flour black pepper bagels (now discontinued) at Noah's, but they were indeed a lovely transcendent experience. Good luck in your quest. Shelley

that the bagels from the non-chain or local places like Brooklyn Bagel and Western Bagel, while not chewy like New York bagels, are still more reasonably sized than the ones from chains like Noah's.

The place on Vermont near Gabriel Park closed? That was easily the best place to get good bagels. Really good bagels that could compete with NY bagels. Bagel Land on Fremont is mediocre. Probably not any better than Noah's, but...

The New World Restaurant Group consists of Manhattan Bagel, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Noah's Bagels and Chesapeake Bagel Bakery, as well as New World Coffee. Maybe more. The reason Einstein makes those lousy steamed "bagels" while...

Whole Foods on Wilshire in SM now carrries H & H bagels from NY. (The Westside S&H) I tried a sample they were handing out and it was ok, but of course that’s no way to judge a bagel. The guy there gave me some convoluted...

I’ll answer that, based upon what I know about the Noah's/Einstein’s chain: They produce poofy, breadlike bagels that sound like the Gryfe’s bagels as described below by embee. Noah's/Einstein’s bagels are...

". If only we in the US had heeded the warning signs and had challenged the imposters before it was too late. It is so bad that this past Christmas Noah's ‘NY’ bagels produced candy-cane shaped bagels with twisted...