Whenever I hear the word ‘Bagel’ I think of my friend Roman. One summer day Roman thought it would be a fun idea to see how fast he could go on his fixed wheel bike, so he convinced his friend Alister to ride alongside him on his motorbike keeping an eye on the speedometer to gage Roman’s top speed as he raced downhill. This was going well with Roman reaching a speed of over 30mph (which is pretty damn fast on a bike, and even more so on a bike without brakes). However approaching a junction Alistar did what most people would do and he slowed down. Roman seeing that Alistar had was no longer riding beside him turned around for a brief moment only to ride straight into a lamp post. This story could have had a tragic end, however earlier that day Roman had been at his leaving do at a bakery where they had given him a hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with the word ‘BAGEL’ and a huge batch of bagels. With no way to carry them home as he was on his bike, he stuffed all the bagels up his sweatshirt. The bagels didn’t survive but Roman’s ribcage did, only just. The bagels at the beigel shop are so good, so cheap and it’s 24 hours, so it’s busiest hours seem to be 11pm to 4am, you have to be on the ball though, there is no time for dithering. The customers come here enough to know exactly what they want and they want it right now, if you pause you’ll get ignored and shoved out the way. They sell good sausage rolls too (interesting as it’s Jewish). I met a girl on the bus once, she was a total nut job, funny though, we got off the bus together (actually I think she followed me off the bus) and bought me a a piece of their amazing cheescake, I thought that was quite sweet.
Beigel Bake, 159 Brick Lane, London, E1 6SB
020 7729 0616
Monday – Sunday 24hrs
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