After hearing forever about the amazing bagels at Brooklyn Bagel Bakery near Echo Park, we finally decided to seek it out last Saturday.
Located at 2217 Beverly Blvd., Brooklyn Bagel Bakery -- which has been around since 1953, pre-dating even the Dodgers' arrival from the New York borough -- isn't pretty to look at. You simply walk in, order your bagels and go. There are no tables and chairs and no fancy coffee drinks (they'd probably make a killing if there were) -- it's all about the bagels.
Online comments from transplanted New Yorkers are bubbling with praise. For us, the bagels were... good. The fact that they maintained such a nice, soft texture even though they'd been sitting out there for some time was impressive. But maybe the hype was too high, or I'm not enough of a bagel nut, as I couldn't tell a big difference between these and others I've had.
Nonetheless, they were still good bagels. We also appreciated the sheer variety of bagels -- We bought a sesame, an egg, a jalapeno and a cranberry one, and were pleased with all of them. But with nowhere to go with our bagels, we drove around the neighborhood in vain, looking for coffee. We finally, sadly, ended up at the Lucy's Laundromat in Echo Park, were a Starbucks sits across from a row of $6.95 mega washing machines.
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