Fresh bagels being removed from a wood-burning oven at Fairmount Bagel, a Montreal institution.
"Irwin Shlafman, the owner of Fairmount Bagel, boasts that his bagels were the first in outer space, when his astronaut cousin brought them to the International Space Station. He also says Fairmount, founded in 1919, is the oldest bagel joint in town. Just don’t tell that to his arch-bagel-rival, Joe Morena, the jovial owner of nearby St-Viateur Bagel. He contends that his bagel place, opened in 1957, is Montreal’s longest continuously running bagel outfit, since Fairmount was closed for a time. ..."
NY Times
The Mile End neighborhood in Montreal, where hipsters and Hasidim often cross paths.
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