Famous Bagel Shops
Several Montreal bagel factories are famous for their authentic Montreal-style bagels. St-Viateur Bagel, at 263 av. St-Viateur West, Fairmount Bagel, at 74 av. Fairmont West are the most well-known and popular bagel shops in Montreal. Mount Royal Bagel Bakery, at 709 Lucerne, which is the only traditionally made wood fired MK Kosher Bagel in the world and Cote-Saint-Luc Bagel is also well known. R.E.A.L. Bagel, Cantor's and Kosher Quality also sell Montreal-style bagels. Beaubien Bagel, on Beaubien just east of St-Hubert, is another traditional bagel bakery serving Montreal's east side.
In New York City, there are two Montreal-style bagel locations in Brooklyn within four blocks of each other:
Montreal-style bagels are made fresh in a traditional wood-fired brick oven in New York's historic Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, at B&B Empire Cafe (200 Clinton Street, Brooklyn NY).
Montreal-style bagels can be purchased at a deli called Mile End, in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn, which was opened and is run by a Montreal native.
Montreal-style bagels have traveled to the West Coast. The Eltana Café, in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, makes the wood-fired, hand-rolled, honey water boiled bagels. Its lead baker interned at St. Viateur’s to learn from the master creators.
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