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California s bagel scene is better than New York s, says the New York Times
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Boichik Bagels in Berkeley.Madeline Wells / SFGate
Bagel purists will tell you that the very best bagels only exist in New York. The New York Times will tell them they’re wrong.
But if not in New York, where? On Monday, the New York Times wrote that the best bagels are found in California, specifically within bagel shops throughout Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
“Emily Winston’s bagels are some of the finest New York-style bagels I’ve ever tasted. They just happen to be made in Berkeley,” the article s author, Tejal Rao, wrote of Boichik Bagels.
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At Boichik Bagels in Berkeley, Calif., Emily Winston makes her ideal version of a New York bagel, loosely based on the H & H version she remembers eating as a child.Credit.Preston Gannaway for The New York Times
March 8, 2021
BERKELEY, Calif. The bagels at Boichik Bagels have the look of Labrador puppies curled up for afternoon naps: soft and pudgy, golden roly-polys (practically made for that old puppy-or-bagel meme).