St-Viateur Bagel

The Montreal bagel is genuinely different from New York's — boiled in honey water, baked in a wood oven, denser and sweeter. Don't assume you know bagels. Get a sesame one straight from the wood oven at the original Saint-Viateur counter and eat it warm, plain, on the sidewalk. It's two dollars, it's open 24 hours, and it's one of the great cheap pleasures of the city.

Wood-fired, honey-boiled Montreal bagels since 1957 — smaller and sweeter than New York's, best eaten hot and plain on the sidewalk.

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