Bagels, bagels everywhere

New Yorkers won’t like this, but it turns out some of the best bagels anywhere come from Beverly Blvd. If it makes them feel better, the place is called Brooklyn Bagel Bakery.

I checked them out yesterday during “Bagel Happy Hour” (3 to 5, Mon. through Fri.) and acquired eight chewy delights for a grand total of three dollars. Their multitudinous varieties include New York-style, which are extra dense and baked in an hearth, rather than in a pan in the oven. The other, nouveau bagels are softer and just as delicious, like the everything bagel that really had everything and the sharp, perfect pumpernickel. We took those bad boys to Echo Park for a picnic, an outing I highly recommend.