Beigel Bake’s Brick Lane London Beigels

In the great bagel diaspora, New York and Montreal get all the attention, but there’s a third bagel, the London beigel, that stands on its own. This bagel, or beigel (pronounced buy-gel if you’re old school), was popularized in large part by Beigel Bake, the narrow bakery storefront running twenty-four hours a day on East London’s Brick Lane, selling dripping hot salt beef and hot mustard sandwiches. This sandwich is as much a part of London hangover street food as kebabs. While the