Bagels: Los Angeles
April 30, 2022 10:13 AM Subscribe
Please recommend a decent place to get bagels in Los Angeles. My Brooklyn relatives are driving from LAX to San Marino via Downtown LA, then to Palm Springs, and want to stop along the way and get a dozen or two bagels. They do not care about over-hyped or performative bagel shops. They will not be impressed by long lines, and are not looking to impress anyone with their bagel connoisseurship. They just want to get a dozen or two good, fresh bagels to go and be on their way. Any recommendations, roughly along the route described above?
Best answer: Maury's Bagels in Silverlake are good! Tiny shop, sometimes a line just because they're good, not because it's especially chic.
posted by xo at 10:42 AM on April 30, 2022
posted by xo at 10:42 AM on April 30, 2022
Best answer: Western Bagel in Sawtelle was my go-to. Not trendy by any means but can’t assure you there won’t be a line on a weekend morning.
posted by namemeansgazelle at 11:05 AM on April 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by namemeansgazelle at 11:05 AM on April 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Goldstein's in Arcadia was pretty good when I lived down there (caveat: 20 years ago), and would be right off the 210 on the way to Palm Springs.
posted by Blue Jello Elf at 11:08 AM on April 30, 2022
posted by Blue Jello Elf at 11:08 AM on April 30, 2022
Best answer: A couple years ago the NYT recommended Courage Bagels in LA and Pop's Bagels, which was in Culver City but now seems to be in Brentwood with a different Culver City location coming soon.
posted by fedward at 11:53 AM on April 30, 2022
posted by fedward at 11:53 AM on April 30, 2022
Best answer: Western Bagel is around town and fine if you don't want to hunt down a hipster joint.
Or they could stop by one of the longstanding delis -- Nate and Al's (BH), Canters (Fairfax), Langer's (Downtown), Art's (Studio City).
Art's would probably be easiest, Langer's more on the way.
posted by snuffleupagus at 12:04 PM on April 30, 2022
Or they could stop by one of the longstanding delis -- Nate and Al's (BH), Canters (Fairfax), Langer's (Downtown), Art's (Studio City).
Art's would probably be easiest, Langer's more on the way.
posted by snuffleupagus at 12:04 PM on April 30, 2022
Best answer:
Courage Bagels, mentioned above, is nearby, and quite good, but exactly what your relatives are not looking for.
posted by kickingtheground at 12:15 PM on April 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Maury's Bagels in Silverlake are good! Tiny shop, sometimes a line just because they're good, not because it's especially chic.This is the correct answer.
Courage Bagels, mentioned above, is nearby, and quite good, but exactly what your relatives are not looking for.
posted by kickingtheground at 12:15 PM on April 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Pop's Bagels is good but is also exactly what your relatives are not looking for (and not on their route). Maury's is less far along the hipster bagel axis than Pop's, and is a good call, but it is a hipster bagel place.
If you want to buy a couple of dozen bagels and a pint of cream cheese from a hole in the wall attached to bakery, and you don't want to stand in line behind people ordering elaborate juices, etc. then my suggestion (and you're not going to like the name, but bear with me) is...
Brooklyn Bagel Bakery. I know it sounds like something you'd find at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport or in like London or something, but it's actually really good! They're good bagels, they're fresh, and it's extremely non-annoying.
It's four minutes from Brooklyn Bagel to Maury's so if one of them doesn't work out, try the other.
posted by caek at 2:04 PM on April 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
If you want to buy a couple of dozen bagels and a pint of cream cheese from a hole in the wall attached to bakery, and you don't want to stand in line behind people ordering elaborate juices, etc. then my suggestion (and you're not going to like the name, but bear with me) is...
Brooklyn Bagel Bakery. I know it sounds like something you'd find at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport or in like London or something, but it's actually really good! They're good bagels, they're fresh, and it's extremely non-annoying.
It's four minutes from Brooklyn Bagel to Maury's so if one of them doesn't work out, try the other.
posted by caek at 2:04 PM on April 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thank you all! - I appreciate the answers! Will compile a list and forward it to them - I'll try to visit Townie in Palm Springs before they arrive, as well.
posted by niicholas at 2:52 PM on April 30, 2022
posted by niicholas at 2:52 PM on April 30, 2022
Best answer: Here to second Brooklyn Bagel bakery. I lived in LA for years and it was the only place that had bagels that I could recommend to an East Coast person. When we got to our LA hotel after 2 years overseas, first thing we did was to have their bagels delivered.
posted by rednikki at 3:04 PM on April 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by rednikki at 3:04 PM on April 30, 2022 [1 favorite]
They should either plan ahead a few days and put in an advance order from Belle's Bagels in Highland Park (as close to San Marino as good bagels get). Or order same day early enough in the day that they haven't sold out. No waiting in line like a sucker!
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 10:00 PM on April 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by mandymanwasregistered at 10:00 PM on April 30, 2022 [2 favorites]
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