This week’s bagel hunt focused on Park Slope and Prospect Heights. The competition for the most bodacious bagel in our beloved borough has intensified with each successive week. Each neighborhood has at least one serious contender, making it increasingly difficult to crown a winner. However, it must be done. Make sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 of the search as well.

Bagel Pub

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Bagel Pub hits the spot with both their bagels and their shop itself. | Photo by Austin Ruby/OurBKSocial

Walking into Bagel Pub in Park Slope is like dying and going to bagel-and-coffee heaven. Natural light fills the high-ceilinged space. Hand-written chalkboard menus adorn the brick walls above the many baskets filled with every bagel imaginable. The counter is stuffed with different spreads and salads to whet your appetite as you make your way to the back of the shop to place your order. In case you’re not in the mood for a bagel, they also serve regular sandwiches, salads (“chopped, tossed, or wrapped”), soups, burgers, quesadillas, traditional breakfast items, and “pub sides.” To drink, diners can choose from a number of bottled beverages, freshly made juices and smoothies, and a full coffee bar. It was disappointing to find out that this “pub” didn’t serve any beer.

Reinforcing its tremendous atmosphere, Bagel Pub has fair prices and quite good bagels. $9.50 for a plain bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato, and onion is well within the expected price range, as is $2.75 for an everything bagel with cream cheese. The plain bagel, though lacking in flavor, was perfectly textured. With the lox piled high and a perfect cream cheese to tomatoes to onions ratio, the flavor of a bagel soon became an afterthought as I basked in the rest of its glory. The everything bagel was the best I’ve tasted thus far. Impossibly dense unlike most other everything bagels, it also had an excellent seasoning blend that wasn’t too salty or garlicky.

A perfect experience in nearly every way, Bagel Pub has set the standard for bagel shop experiences. Even better, with a second location in Crown Heights, it’s accessible to most everyone in Brooklyn. This place will be tough to beat.

  • Taste: 9
  • Texture: 10
  • Value: 9
  • Intangibles: 10
  • Final Score: 10

Terrace Bagels

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You can’t miss Terrace Bagels in South Slope. | Photo by Austin Ruby/OurBKSocial

Just west of Prospect Park in South Slope, Terrace Bagels has a nice, clean storefront with a huge menu and ample seating for customers looking to dine in. Though it’s nothing fancy, Terrace offers more than just bagels. They have just about every breakfast food known to man, a deep list of sandwiches, and select hot food options like burgers and chicken fingers.

The plain bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato, and onion cost $9.99. Other bagels in the $10 range have been very large, and this was no exception. It came with a generous portion of lox, which was also a plus. However, the bagel itself tasted a bit funny and the lox’s quality didn’t stand up to other lox in the borough. At $2.75, the everything bagel was also relatively large. It tasted great, but was light and airy inside. The fast and friendly service made for an enjoyable experience, but the bagels left something to be desired.

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The portions at Terrace Bagels are generous, but the quality isn’t up to snuff. | Photo by Austin Ruby/OurBKSocial

In the process of finding Brooklyn’s best bagel, I’ve had to be very picky. All of the bagels have been great, but some stand out and some fall short in comparison to others. Terrace Bagels would stand out at a lower price, but given its current prices, it falls a bit short.
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  • Taste: 7
  • Texture: 8
  • Value: 6
  • Intangibles: 8
  • Final Score: 7

Olde Brooklyn Bagel Shoppe

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At $11 for a bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato, and onion, Olde Brooklyn Bagel Shoppe falls short. | Photo by Austin Ruby/OurBKSocial

Serving up bagels and much more, Olde Brooklyn Bagel Shoppe (OBBS) is Prospect Heights’s answer to Bagelsmith in Williamsburg. It’s not quite as hip, and it’s a little more polished, but it’s got a similar hybrid bagel shop-bodega feel to it. Featuring snacks, all kinds of drinks, and many more sandwiches than just bagels, there are multiple reasons to head into OBBS. However, it’s cash only, which may turn some people off. Also, it’s a bit pricey, especially for what you get.

The plain bagel with the works cost a whopping $11. Of course, at that price I expected a big bagel with a lot of lox. Instead, I got a small bagel with an insulting serving of lox. The bagel was soft and chewy with an enjoyable flavor, but nothing special in particular. The everything bagel was $3 and had a perfect texture: crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. It was just a bit salty, though, and that flavor overpowered the rest of the seasoning.

OBBS has a great atmosphere and enticing menu, but isn’t the place to go for a traditional bagel experience.

  • Taste: 8
  • Texture: 8
  • Value: 3
  • Intangibles: 9
  • Final Score: 7

Next week will be the final installment of Brooklyn’s Bodacious Bagels. Have I missed anywhere that I absolutely have to try? Let me know in the comments below, or on social media (Twitter/IG).