Comments on: Mon dieu! Le Brokavore deigns to try $2.50 Canadian bagels http://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/ Food, restaurants, shopping and cheap fun on a budget in Brooklyn NYC Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: What's your favorite supermarket coffee? | Brokelynhttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-23156 What's your favorite supermarket coffee? | Brokelyn Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:27:18 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-23156 [...] coffee? by Faye | 1.24.12 | Post a Comment     ShareEven the most committed brokavore has an achilles heel. Farm-raised tenderloin, organic rocket greens, deep-fried anchovy skeletons. [...] [...] coffee? by Faye | 1.24.12 | Post a Comment     ShareEven the most committed brokavore has an achilles heel. Farm-raised tenderloin, organic rocket greens, deep-fried anchovy skeletons. [...]

]]> By: Jackhttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13262 Jack Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:17:33 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13262 Mollie, I agree. But I think the reason is the pretty much proven myth that bread tastes the way it does from different places due to "the water." That's pretty much a known myth in the bread baking world. The real key is the yeast and yeast cultures which can change from region to region.Which is all to say, they could make their own Canadian versions of bagels here in Brooklyn, but the myth of importing them will still be a stronger pull. Mollie, I agree. But I think the reason is the pretty much proven myth that bread tastes the way it does from different places due to “the water.” That’s pretty much a known myth in the bread baking world. The real key is the yeast and yeast cultures which can change from region to region.

Which is all to say, they could make their own Canadian versions of bagels here in Brooklyn, but the myth of importing them will still be a stronger pull.

]]> By: Fayehttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13254 Faye Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:55:05 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13254 um, good point mollie. that might be the brokavore's next mission! um, good point mollie. that might be the brokavore’s next mission!

]]> By: molliehttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13249 mollie Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:46:33 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13249 What I'm wondering is...why not use the Canadian bagel recipe and bake them here?It's not like they're made from exotic ingredients that can't be found here- they're BAGELS. What I’m wondering is…why not use the Canadian bagel recipe and bake them here?

It’s not like they’re made from exotic ingredients that can’t be found here- they’re BAGELS.

]]> By: Piperhttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13242 Piper Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:48 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13242 It is wrong to call them Canadian bagels as they are particular to only 2 bakeries in the whole country. These two bakeries that operate 24 hours a day, rolling bagels by hand and baking them in wood ovens, are only a few blocks apart in the Mile-End district of Montreal: St-Viateur Bagels and Fairmont Bagels. Otherwise, Canadian bagels are the same bread-like fluffy puffy factory made bagels you find in just about any grocery store in North America. I question the post that says that the person went to the 'best bagel place in Montreal' and the bagel was so bad he had to throw it out. I'm not saying it's not possible this person went to one of these two bakeries, but if he did, his experience is the exception to the rule. Or, maybe, with all the hype the person was expecting something more like a cupcake than an authentic bagel (on that note, Mile-End, the neighbourhood, has the best cup cakes too, at Coco Locale on Parc Ave. near Villeneuve St.). I recommend New Yorkers and Brooklynites save up their 2.50$s they would otherwise spend on buying an exported Mile-End bagel so that they can come to Montreal to experience the real thing, hot out of the oven, while taking a stroll along Saint-Viateur Street lined with its unpretentious cafés and boutiques and hang with the diverse creative-type locals. St-Viateur St. is the heart of the Mile-End district, the best neighbourhood in Montreal (and therefore, Canada :)). Context is everything so come visit, (after all, we are only a few hours to the North of you), and when you do, don't limit yourselves to the downtown tourist zone, take a walk North up Saint-Laurent Boulevard through the famed Plateau neihbourhood and into the ajoining Mile-End district, turn West on Saint-Viateur to sample its cafés, boutiques and bagels, and then South down Park Ave. to Coco Locale for a cupcake and continue on to the Mont-Royal Park (our Prospect Park), to climb the mountain and work off some of those bagel and cup cake calories. Also, iff you are into indie music, this is where it happens. Check out small venues like the Divan Orange, the Casa del Popolo, the Sala Rosa and the Cagibi, all on St-Laurent boul., and your bound to catch the next, yet undiscovered, indie sensation in action. - a Mile-End Resident of over 10 years. It is wrong to call them Canadian bagels as they are particular to only 2 bakeries in the whole country. These two bakeries that operate 24 hours a day, rolling bagels by hand and baking them in wood ovens, are only a few blocks apart in the Mile-End district of Montreal: St-Viateur Bagels and Fairmont Bagels. Otherwise, Canadian bagels are the same bread-like fluffy puffy factory made bagels you find in just about any grocery store in North America.
I question the post that says that the person went to the ‘best bagel place in Montreal’ and the bagel was so bad he had to throw it out. I’m not saying it’s not possible this person went to one of these two bakeries, but if he did, his experience is the exception to the rule. Or, maybe, with all the hype the person was expecting something more like a cupcake than an authentic bagel (on that note, Mile-End, the neighbourhood, has the best cup cakes too, at Coco Locale on Parc Ave. near Villeneuve St.). I recommend New Yorkers and Brooklynites save up their 2.50$s they would otherwise spend on buying an exported Mile-End bagel so that they can come to Montreal to experience the real thing, hot out of the oven, while taking a stroll along Saint-Viateur Street lined with its unpretentious cafés and boutiques and hang with the diverse creative-type locals. St-Viateur St. is the heart of the Mile-End district, the best neighbourhood in Montreal (and therefore, Canada :)).
Context is everything so come visit, (after all, we are only a few hours to the North of you), and when you do, don’t limit yourselves to the downtown tourist zone, take a walk North up Saint-Laurent Boulevard through the famed Plateau neihbourhood and into the ajoining Mile-End district, turn West on Saint-Viateur to sample its cafés, boutiques and bagels, and then South down Park Ave. to Coco Locale for a cupcake and continue on to the Mont-Royal Park (our Prospect Park), to climb the mountain and work off some of those bagel and cup cake calories. Also, iff you are into indie music, this is where it happens. Check out small venues like the Divan Orange, the Casa del Popolo, the Sala Rosa and the Cagibi, all on St-Laurent boul., and your bound to catch the next, yet undiscovered, indie sensation in action.
- a Mile-End Resident of over 10 years.

]]> By: vladhttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13233 vlad Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:35:17 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13233 what's with that awkward lopsided poppyseededness? if that bagel was a mouth, them poppyseeds would be like some kind of funky bottom lip goatee. Not tryin' to hate on Montreal, but, you know, let new york city take care of the bagels. what’s with that awkward lopsided poppyseededness? if that bagel was a mouth, them poppyseeds would be like some kind of funky bottom lip goatee. Not tryin’ to hate on Montreal, but, you know, let new york city take care of the bagels.

]]> By: itsmehttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13227 itsme Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:12:39 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13227 So true! I went to the "best bagel place" in Montreal last year expecting to get wowed, but ended up throwing the thing away after the first bite. Even fresh out of the oven they're dry, mealy, flavorless. So true! I went to the “best bagel place” in Montreal last year expecting to get wowed, but ended up throwing the thing away after the first bite. Even fresh out of the oven they’re dry, mealy, flavorless.

]]> By: Tim Donnellyhttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13226 Tim Donnelly Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:22 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13226 USA!!! USA!!!!seriously though, the carbon footprint here is kinda ludicrous. It'd be like shipping pizza into Brooklyn from Columbus, OH. What's the point? USA!!! USA!!!!

seriously though, the carbon footprint here is kinda ludicrous. It’d be like shipping pizza into Brooklyn from Columbus, OH. What’s the point?

]]> By: Aardvarkhttp://www.brokelyn.com/mon-dieu-le-brokavore-deigns-to-try-2-50-canadian-bagels/comment-page-1/#comment-13222 Aardvark Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:41:18 +0000 http://www.brokelyn.com/?p=15707#comment-13222 Chauvinist! Chauvinist!

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