The Bagel Restaurant and Deli
Having grown up in New Jersey, it’s been a real struggle living in Chicago for these past few years when I was so accustomed to having amazing bagels within my reach every morning.
Fortunately, for us uprooted Northeasterns, there’s the Bagel Restaurant and Deli (3107 N. Broadway, Chicago, and Old Orchard Center, Skokie). They boast of their authentic Jewish cooking and as far as bagels in the Midwest go, they’re among the best.
I’ve yet to try their many deli sandwiches and non-bagel breakfast specialities, but when I’m nostalgic, I head straight to the Bagel Restaurant and Deli for a poppy-seed and salt bagel, easy on the cream cheese.
A word of caution to the wannabe bagel fashionistas… Bagel Restaurant and Deli offers one flavor of cream cheese and that’s plain. That’s something only a place with truly amazing-tasting bagels can pull off.
