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A Canadian bagel for $2.50? Le Brokavore says ‘Mais non!’

Au revoir yourself, non cheri.

Au revoir, non cheri.

OK, let me get this straight. Certain Brooklyn foodies’ heart rates are climbing because tomorrow morning they’ll be able to wake up in the borough chosen by Yahweh as the spiritual home of the bagel, hot-foot it to Boerum Hill and buy one freshly imported across international lines, from a country where Tim Horton is a culinary icon? And for this they’re going to lay down a schmear-melting $2.50US a pop? Read the rest of this entry »

Mon dieu! Le Brokavore deigns to try $2.50 Canadian bagels

Nothing but a hole lot of hype, says L.B.

A $2.50 Montreal bagel from Mile End.

If hell was a bit nippy this past weekend, or airborne pigs were spotted over Prospect Park, I can offer an explanation. Which is this: Shortly after noon on Saturday, I, The Brokavore, a man devoted to thrift the way carp are devoted to swimming, walked into the Mile End on Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill, asked for a poppyseed bagel, and pried $2.50 from my cold, not-quite-dead hands. Read the rest of this entry »

A Canadian bagel for $2.50? Le Brokavore says ‘Mais non!’

Au revoir yourself, non cheri.

Au revoir, non cheri.

OK, let me get this straight. Certain Brooklyn foodies’ heart rates are climbing because tomorrow morning they’ll be able to wake up in the borough chosen by Yahweh as the spiritual home of the bagel, hot-foot it to Boerum Hill and buy one freshly imported across international lines, from a country where Tim Horton is a culinary icon? And for this they’re going to lay down a schmear-melting $2.50US a pop? Read the rest of this entry »