Here you’ll find the best bagel in London
When I’m on a city trip to London, one place I always visit is Beigel Bake Brick Lane Bakery in London. Recently, I was lucky enough to be in this vibrant city again, and once again the bagels at Beigel Bake did not disappoint.
Salt Beef Beigel
At the bakery, you’ll find all kinds of delicious treats. Sandwiches, bagels (which are called ‘beigels’ here), pastries; all freshly baked in the bakery. The salmon cream cheese beigel is popular, but there’s only one beigel that Londoners and tourists will go out of their way for: the salt beef beigel. This sandwich has been made according to the same recipe since the bakery opened in 1979. And thankfully: never change a winning team!
Perfect combination
The brisket simmers for hours, after which the meat is generously piled in thick slices onto the still-warm, freshly baked beigels. The mustard is spicy, and be sure to add pickles: this is the best way to eat this sandwich. The salty meat combined with the slightly sweet bread, spicy mustard and sour pickle: perfect!
24/7
Beigel Bake – Brick Lane Bakery is not only fantastic because of its delicious sandwiches and beigels. Its opening hours are another reason it’s so popular: 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Yes, you read that correctly: this bakery never closes. That means you can head to Beigel Bake after your pub crawl through Shoreditch (the best neighbourhood in London!) for the ultimate drunk food. For £5, this bite will have you feeling sober again in no time. Brilliant!
Beigel?
Yes, it may look a little strange: beigel. This isn’t a repeated spelling mistake that I made and the editors overlooked, but rather a small piece of history. The “bajgiel” (what we now know as a bagel/beigel) originated in 1600, when it was given as a gift to pregnant women in Poland. This had to do with its shape—well, the circle of life. Bajgiel is thought to come from the Germanic word beygel, meaning ring or bracelet. To make the word a little simpler, bajgiel became beigel. Until Americans started calling them bagels in 1932. The American version stuck. Except in Shoreditch on Brick Lane: there, it’s simply still a beigel.
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