Beigal Bake

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Beigal Bake sell a wide range of freshly baked goods including bagels, rolls, croissants and pastries. They are open 24 hours a day.

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• Me no likey

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  Sure the beigels are cheap - but the hype is highly unjustified about this place... am I missing the point?

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• Meh

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  Sorry to rain on the happy parade, but I've honestly had better bagels out of the bag at Tescos. There's normally a queue when you pass by this store, so I always just assumed the food was great. One morning I passed by and saw no queue and decided to give it a go...what a bummer!The bagels are tiny, bland, and I found the flavors to be a bit of a snooze. The service was pretty rushed, reminiscent of the soup nazi from Seinfeld (even with nobody behind me). Perhaps it's that I'm used to New York style bagels, but even by store bought standards, this place left me totally underwhelmed.Take notes brick lane: http://www.bigcitybagels.com/6.html

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• Bagels Oy gevalt!

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  Little remains of Brick Lane's Jewish past except for the famous two remaining bagel shops that neighbour each other at the end of the street. 24 hours a day you can satisfy your hunger with bagels filled with of mounds of soft delicious salt beef or smoked salmon and cream cheese, and again, 24 hours a day! Late night drinking at Shoreditch house can often lead to a stumble to the busy bakery and waking up at home with 20 bagels and a shirt covered in English mustard (Have you ever tried to pay a cabbie in bagels... I am told I have more than once). The salt beef here is good, but certainly not the best in London. The Brass Rail Salt Beef Bar at Selfridges ranks highly as does B&K in Edgware. Harry Morgans chain not nearly as good as either but still quality. The staff are typically East London and I love it.As far as a comparison between the two bakeries, I am a Beigel Bake man.

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• always fab

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  I love this place! Open day or night, it doesn't seem to be affected by the credit crunch and the bagels remain cheap. There can be a queue, but there are always so many people working here, so you'll always get served quickly. I always grab a dozen to freeze and they still taste good once defrosted. The cakes and pastries are also good, and reasonable, so a lunch could cost you less than £2, which is rare for London. Smoked Salmon and cream cheese is a must. It's always lively and has a real East End feel, and I shall be having many more visits.

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• Great!

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  I love beigels. And this bakery is everything waiting for. The queues can be huge, especially at night. It is full of taxi drivers and late clubbers. But the food… ah, the salted beef beigel is my best snack in London. The beef is absolutely tasty (not something that you can find elsewhere). I would like to add that they also sell cakes. I tried a chocolate fudge cake and it almost melted in my hand. It was absolutely lovely. I think I saw some Jewish cakes (or similar), but I had no more cash at hand! So, my advice: go for a salted beef beigel and a cake.

  By - 04/09/2008 Report this review

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• hungers best friend

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  especially late at night, after a night out when theres about a million other places around trying to sell you absolute unconsumable rubbish. It's a nice feeling swallowing down their soft bagels knowing that you aren't gonna chuck that up in the morning - your stomach just wouldn't allow it!I've heard alot about the salt beef here, but have yet to try it myself but I can comment on their quick service - i found it a bit dinner ladie lunch queue ish, which just brings feelings of nostalgia, good nostalgia. With such generous fillings (and prices that reflect how much change you'd probably have in your pocket at 3am) it deserves atlest 6 michelin stars.

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• Great traditional Beigels

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  What can I say apart from great beigel. I highly recommended this place. It has clean and tidy premises. They seem to have good hygiend praxctices whilst preparing food. The shop has lots of fillings available and the beigels are freshly baked with a traditional taste. If you like beigels then this is the place for you. Other jewish specialities are also available also. The shop does get very busy as it is extremely popular, so you may have to queue-but as they say all good things are worth the wait..... The staff are very friednly and nice and offr a good service. Beigels are freshly made up to your order specifications in front of you.

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• London's worst-kept secret

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  Hello and welcome to my latest obsession - The Brick Lane Salt Beef Beigel. I feel the same way about these little beauties as I did when I first realised that the outwardly boring little pub at the end of my road actually turned out some of the best food in South West London - namely joy at the discovery, tinged with regret that it had taken me so long to make the effort to do so. God knows how many times I'd wasted the chance to try one whilst trooping up and down Brick Lane, dodging the hawkers for mediocre curry houses. A friend suggested the other day that if Boris Johnston added to his mayoral manifesto that every crappy curry house on Brick Lane had to by law post a sign on their front door reading "Just Go To Tayyabs", then even he'd vote for him.Anyway, what's so special about salt beef? It's a fair question, and one I have asked myself until recently. It doesn't sound particularly appetising does it, salty beef. But try and imagine half a dozen generous slabs of juicy pink flesh, tasty rather than overly salty, bursting out of a georgeously soft fresh beigel (they churn them out at an incredible rate, so they will generally be very fresh), zinging with fiery English mustard and with a couple of gherkins on the side. There is a satisfying 'squeak' as you bite through the bread into the meat, from the unique texture of the preserved beef, and the fat in the meat oozes flavour.Needless to say, there are numerous outlets in London purporting to sell 'salt beef sandwiches' that are actually just depressing mass-produced 'beef ham' and nothing like the real thing. Don't be fooled. In my (incredibly limited) experience, as well as Brick Lane the Brass Rail bar in Selfridge's Food Hall also does some great (if overpriced) salt beef, and I'm sure many people will have their own favourites. Brick Lane is about 15 minutes walk from my workplace; the chances of me making it through the winter without a cardiac episode are diminishing rapidly. But damn it, the salt beef beigels are cheap, gorgeous and uniquely London. They are almost worth dying for.

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• Yummy

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  One of my favourite places to eat, 24 hour yummy, delicious Beigels. My fave is deffinatly the salt beef and mustard, altho My mum like chopped herring and cream cheese (blleurrghh) well each to their own. Great cakes too reccomend the carrot cake.

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• Best bagels in world (probably)

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  I love these and the best way to persuade me to take 2 buses and 2 tubes to visit my friend nearby.Personally I love them with just cream cheese and tomatoe or just butter or with salad cream and cucumber if I'm in a really sulty food mood.And open 24 hours great. One piece of advice if your taking them home to fill yourself / freeze ask for the ones that are still hot so they are as fresh as they get. Though to be honest the place is so busy the bagels would only ever be a few hours since making / baking.Plain straight forward service no have a nice day fakeness

  By - 09/07/2008 Report this review

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• Brick Lane Beigel Bake

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  Sometimes I think this might be the actual best place in the whole of London. Delicious and very cheap bagels, available at any time of the day or night. Fantastic in just about every respect.

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• salt beef is the way to go

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  I've always been a salmon and cream cheese kind of bagel girl but the other reviews convinced me to try out the salt beef. After a lazy Sunday afternoon hanging around Brick lane, I made my boyfriend accompany me to find Beigel bake and promptly ordered myself a bagel with salt beef and mustard. I really enjoyed it, the beef is so lovely, just the right texture and flavour. She did go a bit crazy with the mustard though...a bit much for me but I braved it and finished the whole thing anyway! I think I need to do what the other reviewers are doing and buy loads and keep them in the freezer.

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• Beats any bagel from the Lower east side of NY

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  Andy's review is spot on (and v. funny). I never really rated bagels till I had one of those. On a visit to the Big Apple I thought I could find a salt beef bagel that would beat the ones from Brick Lane...Nop! Didn't happen...They're so nice you can have them plain!I have been known for leaving the shop with bags full of bagels which will then travel back to West London and end up straight in the freezer! On a lazy Sunday morning...while you put a few bagels in the oven (2/3 minutes), you can rustle up some scrambled eggs, add a couple of slices of smoked salmon onto plates and Bob's Uncle!Posh breakfast doesn't have to be time consuming... and that leave you more time for.... other things!;0)

  By - 12/03/2008 Report this review

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• Poor service but good beigel

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  When I went (my first time), they hardly had anything we asked for because their ovens were broken. Pretty poor service too as the staff kept chatting amongst themselves and didn't even notice us at the counter and we were starving!! The beigels made up for it (but only just).

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• Bgl. The rll with the hl

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  The mere mention of the place gets me slavering uncontrollably like a Pavlovian Pomeranian with mercury poisoning.There is nothing dignified, sophisticated or "oh aren't we being multi-cultural" about this place. You sidestep London's best-placed begging pitch, you wander steamy-spectacled into the last hot hurrah of the Jewish East End, you queue with the cabbies and the ravers and the Shoreditch spuffers, you ask, you get, you pay, you're out. What do you need, a manual?At the wrong end (if there is one) of Brick Lane's neon-drenched passanda and pilau paradise, the bakery's policy remains very simple; let's make beigels better than anyone else in London, let's sell them ridiculously cheap, let's never close.The fact that their black breads, chollas and chocolate brownies are exemplary is almost an irrelevance - everyone in their right mind comes for one of two things, smoked salmon and cream cheese, or hot salt beef and mustard. In a beigel.On a cold winter's night, in the blank space between alcohol and a sweaty night bus, the black hole of the beigel is the event horizon to my appetite's atmospheric particle, drawing me inexorably towards it, filled with moist chewy salty hunks of brisket, oozing with the sweet hot bite of english mustard and comehereyoubeautycometopapa!

  By - 09/12/2007 Report this review

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• Good food

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  Although probably I liked it coz I was starving! :D

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• A Sunday Morning Treat

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  Visit Columbia Road flower market, cruise the junk shops and stalls at Brick Lane, then drop in here for sustenance. Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese are fantastic!

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• Bargain bagels

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  Always busy not matter when you go. The salt beef bagels area bargain, with enough meat to fill 2 bagels. If you passing make sure you stop and try one. The cakes are super cheap as well.

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• 24 hour beigel fix

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  At the end of Brick Lane road is a fantastically cheap beigel shop and more its open 24 hours a day 7 days a week except Christmas.The beigels are made in the traditional Jewish way boiled until cooked on the surface and then baked in the oven. You can also buy pastries & onion platzels.Fillings are so cheap & its more traditional choices such as cream cheese, egg, tuna & salmon. I had a fantastic hot salt beef bagel thick fresh slices of meat packed into the bagel was only GBP2.30

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• Mmm Beigels

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  Ideally located on the way I go to catch the bus home. This bakery produces top notch bagels. Im not a big fan of the salt beef but the cream cheese is a winner. They also do a mean sausage roll if you are looking for something a little bit more greasey.Extra points for the interesting clientele, no matter what time you visit.

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• 24 hour goodness

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  Beautiful beigels at all hours of the day. If you are looking for a policeman or ambulance you'll often find one parked outside sneaking a crafty salt beef.At night you can even take time out to chat to the homeless folks who are attracted to the smell and rapid turnover of slightly drunk (and therefore more generous) customers.I've driven miles to get a beigel from this place and it's always been worth it.

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• Mmm Beigel!

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  Which bakery are people talking about? There are almost two right next to each other, I personally prefer the one nearer the top end of Brick Lane. And it is superb, to our friend from New Yorker - poppy seeds?! None of that poncy stuff here! ;)

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• Salted Beef Beigel with Mustard... and I'd ask for pickle as well

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  Anytime of day or night there is a tasty little beigel waiting for you on Brick Lane.but pass on the coffee.

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• Honestly, Pretty Good

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  I'm originally from the New York metro area, and I have a thing about bagels. That is to say, most of what is called a "bagel" in this world is not actually a bagel, but rather a mediocre bread roll with a hole in the middle. (Note to Montrealers: I love Montreal bagels as well, but you will certainly admit it's a different product, and in any case that ain't what I'm talking about here). Bagels are special. They require extra gluten in the flour, they need to be boiled in a special solution, and then they need to be baked in a piping hot oven. I can make a pretty damned good one myself, and I believe I've debunked the "it's about the water" myth by having done so in places far and wide.So, admittedly, I was skeptical when a friend told me about this place. I assumed that you'd find the same crap one finds in the Bagel Factory, or any other place that uses the term bagel, ahem, loosely.But I made the trip to Brick Lane on a Sunday morning, and to my surprise and delight, the bagels were actually good. The place *smells* like a proper bagel bakery. You can see that they boil before they bake. The bagels are chewy on the inside and not quite crispy on the outside.They only come in plain (can somebody please ship them some sesame and poppy seeds?), but they do the job.And the other reviewer is right about the rye bread -- it's great.

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• Bagel around the clock

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  This has to be one of London's hidden institutions. Hidden right at the North end of Brick Lane and frequented by the most eclectic mix of customers any eatery in London can claim. The bagel junkies change in character, apparel and sobriety depending on the hour of your visit.Like Bar Italia in Soho - the final stop on a late night out. However instead of electrifying espresso, pick up a Hot Salt Beef Bagel with enough Mustard to wake you up and send back into the club. Followed by a cup of scalding tea. Try their Rye bread for Sunday breakfast and the cakes aren't half bad either.

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