Now that my cred has gone up a notch due to Seal liking my pizza recommendation, allow me to announce the best bagel in Monmouth County.
A little bagel resume first.
I worked in NYC fashion business for over 40 years & a bagel & iced coffee was a daily religious ritual.
Bagels from all over the 4 boroughs ( Staten Island is a wasteland) were available always.
We were bagel snobs & Ess a Bagel & H&H were the gold standard. Ok?
So 35 years ago I move to Marlboro and the only decent bagel was Bagel World on route 9 Eli’s in Pond Rd shopping Center.
Others have come & gone, but today after seeing Grandpa’s Bagels on route 79 in same strip as Cuzins on Instagram I had to stop in.
So it’s a good looking place & the bagels looked great but the proof was in the taste.
Man it was Bagel nirvana, tried the sesame with a maple pecan cream cheese spread & it’s just perfect.
Bought some everything bagels & of course sesame & some of the spread.
They have a process I am not familiar with called Bromate it’s to make it a more digestible bagel, whatever it is it’s a damn good bagel, as good as it gets.
BTW the Grandfather is on premise & was very engaging.
Definitely has replaced Bagel World & Eli’s in my rotation.
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