Really good, fresh bagels I'll eat without toasting. Most times I eat them toasted .

So, this Saturday is National Bagel and Lox Day. I'm trying to decide between the Georgetown Bagelry in Bethesda or going for H&H at Calvert Woodley. But where should I go for good lox?

Dean & DeLuca and Georgetown Bagelry across the street. Still open last weekend.

I second Dean & Deluca. Balducci's is OK in a pinch.

2 Amy's was serving house made bagels and lox last Saturday. Quite good.

Anyone been to the latest incarnation of Krupin's lately? Deli has been hit or miss over the years, but whenever one of the Brothers Krupin has been involved in any way, the hand-sliced lox has been hard to beat.

Show me the boiler.


I'd be shocked if C-W doesn't have lox. But I agreee with Mrs. B -- and not just because I have to -- that the trip to G'Town for the Bagel Bakery (Related to bethesda's? I thought they were a one-off) and the mutliple salmon options from across the street si worth the trip.

Bageltowne in the Traville shopping center(Rockville) has some of the best belly lox around. Nova just doesn't do it for a true New Yorker, it has to be belly.

Bagel City on Rockville Pike had very good bagels. I haven't been there in a while but authentic and good.

I thought the Georgetown location had closed already; very glad to hear I can still head over there and pick up lox at D&D in one fell swoop.

All the thinking about appropriate celebration of National Bagels and Lox Day sent me into a fit of NYC food nostalgia/longing. So a package from Barney Greengrass, containing mini chocolate babka, half-sour pickles and bagels, is winging its way to DC. I'm looking forward to comparing those to the Bagelry.

For those lamenting the "closing" of the Georgetown Bagelry, I just read in the Georgetowner that the shop is merely relocating. It is moving to a spot right across from the CVS on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown. According to the paper, it will have the same owners/menu.

Has anyone been by this site recently and notice any activity?

On a related note, I stopped by the relocated "original" Georgetown Bagelry on River Road this morning and found the bagels still to be a strong contender for the best in the area. Took home a "Miami Burger" (Cream Cheese & Lox) on an Everything Bagel. Nice.

Big fan of Goldberg's in Rockville. This after having given up eating bagels in Arlington because most of them were horrible.

I used to really like Greenberg's in the Georgetown Square shopping center - not the best, but serviceable, closest to me, and they always had good coupons - but they closed. Must have been the coupons. Drifted to Bagel City, to Ize's, then settled down at Goldberg's, who does have a decent bialy at that - nice and oniony. Their challah is also pretty good, but they might be getting that from a kosher bakery in Baltimore.

FWIW, I would still go to Ize's and BC (BC's bagels are noticeably smaller than the others, and Ize's sometimes get "fluffy.") Greenberg's is closed on Saturday ("what, you want we should sell bagels on shabbas? GOY!"

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