Not Boston’s but I’ve had a ton of “you have to try this one bagel shop in town, it’s just like New York!”

Generally speaking they’ve been decent enough bagels, but the shops don’t have the turnover to be able to ask “what’s hot?” and get a reasonable answer.

Also, the appetizing game tends to be pretty weak. Occasionally a shop will fly in Acme, which is admittedly impressive, but it tends to only be nova. I’m hard pressed to find herring in cream sauce, whitefish salad, or belly lox outside of the tristate area.

Those last three can always be found at Mammelah's in Cambridge, if you're in town.

Great name for a bagel shop.

It's basically a Jewish deli which I'm happy to see is apparently open for dinner again. (Closed for dinner pre-COVID.) Yes, very good in Kendall in Cambridge though they also apparently have a couple of other locations now.

I used to live near Bagelsaurus and it is better than any bagel I can get in my Brooklyn neighborhood now.

Dragon Pizza there similarly high quality.

There are a number of foods that are supposedly only being amazing within a certain geographic location, but the best ones I've had were far outside if that location.

The best shrimp poboy I had was in Tampa; nothing I could find in New Orleans even came close. There was a New York style pizza place in Shanghai which people that went back to America would talk about missing (better than any pizza I've had in NYC). An Italian person I knew visited D.C. and when they got back to Rome they kept talking about how much they missed the pizza place in Washington.

For bagels, best I've ever had is probably a split between New Jersey (not _far_ from NYC) and Montreal.

Was the pizza place in Washington 2Amys?

Best pizza I’ve ever had. Franks in New Haven is close, but just not that crazy about thin crust.

(Ironically, some of the worst “real” pizza I’ve had was at the Atlanta restaurant owned by someone whose “How to make real pizza” page gets posted here every year or two. Yea, it had a nice char but everything about it was just bland bland bland)

That's the one.

Homeslice in Shanghai is fantastic

There are a lot of good pizza places in Shanghai because China is a big food country and restaurants that serve bad food can't survive here

> There was a New York style pizza place in Shanghai which people that went back to America would talk about missing (better than any pizza I've had in NYC).

Homeslice or Joe’s?

Better than bagel pub??

The line is consistently out the door, so they have to be doing something right!

Or maybe they're just doing their service wrong. Who is to say?

If you're in the Boston area go to Bagel world (technically not in Boston, but a little north of it)

edit: for crossiants and other treats, A.J. King is my fav -- they supply a lot of the Boston cafes

Kane's for donuts

I like Iggy's for bagels. (Some) Whole Foods carry.

Have they relented on only offering cold-smoked salmon yet?