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french toast challah bread sprinkled with confectioner's sugar.

bagels, lox, cream cheese, red onion, capers

Bagels, bagels and more bagels with cream cheese. We don't have anything this good on the Gulf Coast.

can't beat a bagel with cream cheese and lox

bagel + lox + cream cheese - please!

bagel and lox

Waffles for me

Having lived in Dallas for the last 11 years, I know bagels here only as big rolls. So, I'm starved for a good bagel. A good onion bagel, toasted, with a huge schmear of cream cheese. And some beef fry (what my mom called Hebrew National's kosher version of bacon). And baked salmon (what my dad called kippered salmon). What is a good Sunday New York brunch to me? Bagels, bialys, baked salmon, some really creamy herring, lots of cream cheese and some whitefish salad. Alas, whenever I'm in New York, I never have a brunch opportunity. Lunch is as close as it gets. That's why I'm so glad that 2nd Ave. is re-opening. If you aren't going for the "fleisheka" brunch (that would be the one with meat), give me a bowl of their matzoh ball soup (I hope the old waitress who says "I'll be the pourer, you'll be the richer" as the delivers the soup is still around), a corned beef sandwich and a square knish is just perfect. Bottom line, I don't get good deli food here in Texas. You'd be feeding a nice a Jewish boy a good Jewish appetizing meal by picking me. My mother would think you a "mensch."

A nice cheese omelet , a side of meaty bacon , a lightly grilled rye bagel with a tall glass of OJ and plenty of coffee .......I'm ready !

Bagels, lox, whitefish salad, sable, sturgeon, herring in white cream sauce..

Confession to make: I have lived in Maryland the majority of my life and have NEVER had a NY Bagel. Never! What's a good Jewish girl like me to do? Suffer through drab bagels my whole life. I lOVE bagels and lox. And, bagels and whitefish salad. And, bagels and smoked sable. And, the halevah thrown in reminds me of my late Gma Irma. Yum. Pick me.

Chocolate chip pancakes