Absolutely amazing bagels! Apparently it is so popular among bagel fans that on weekends, a queue will start to form before the shop opens at 11am and the bagels often get sold out early in the afternoon. I tried my luck on a weekday when I happened to be in the neighbourhood. I only managed to get there by 1:30pm but there were 9 different kinds of bagels available and no one was waiting. Though when I left, people started to queue….I think I was just lucky. Each person can only buy up to 10 bagels. Price of the bagels ranges from 180yen to 250yen each. A bit expensive for just bagels but they are very big and very solid. You can order bagel sandwiches too - 600yen for two choices of filling. I had potato salad filling for half of the bagel, and pumpkin salad for the other half. The shop is so tiny and has no cafe space so I had to take-out the sandwich and ate somewhere else. Very delicious sandwich but the bagel was not toasted. Later I toasted the rest of the bagels at home and they were much much nicer.
Maruichi Bagel (マルイチベーグル)
Near Yoyogi-Uehara station. It says on the homepage that it will be closed until 1st July…oops.
I’ve never had un-toasted bagel. Now whenever I toast bagel, I scratch out most of the ‘dough’ of the bagel, so I can fill in more cream/fillings on top , a wasteful and desperate attempt to cut down the calories…^^;;
Huh?? ^^;;;;;; Why not cut it into half and just use half at a time to make an open sandwich? I do that all the time.
Haha, see…I cut it into half first, then scratch out the inside of each half (like digging the ground), then i toasted them, and spread fillings on them (smoke salmon cream cheese is my favorite). That way I eat less carb and more fillings. ^^;;