After our Roa walk we arrived in Bricklane, an area in London near Clerkenwell and Shoreditch. Bricklane is not a fancy hipster spot but a typical British brick road packed with Indian deli's, nightshops and unusual small but fun shops and bars. Always adventurous to step into some to check ot what's cooking.
Passing by an old bakery with damph windows and older ladies serving a kind of meat dish on a bagel, a long row of (mostly) men queuing in & out store, we couldn't resist checking it out.
It seemed to be the famous Beigel Bake store!
This legendary hotspot is a 24-hour bakery serving mainly bagels (spelled beigels on the facade)baked in traditional Jewish style with fillings such as hot salt beef with mustard, chopped herring, and cream cheese and salmon. Beigel Bake is the oldest and best bagel shop in London, and produces 7,000 bagels every day!!
You can also order pastries and sweets such as Danish rolls, apple strudel, Eccles cakes and cheesecake, as well as white, rye and black bread. Beigel Bake is the oldest bagel shop in London and produces 7,000 bagels over night, every night.
Open 24 hours a day with a melting pot of people, queuing like only the English can, for the most famous bagel of all: the one filled with brilliant moist salt beef, carved as you wait from a slab kept warm in the front window. The bagels are boiled before being baked here since 1977. A bagel is 25p and filled bagels with delicious kosher fillings range up to about £1.50. The Brick Lane's location makes this thé favorite snack stop (overnight but also during the day!)for clubbers, trendy kids, Jewish old-timers, back packers, imbibers and taxi drivers.
Next time in Bricklane, give it a try and start queuing!
Beigel Bake
159 Brick Lane
London
E1 6SB
Open 24hrs daily
©ALL photos by Kate Stockman_THE SQUID STORIES
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