The rich, comforting aromas from the wood-burning oven in a Côte-St-Luc strip mall are much the same as those found in other bagel shops dotting the Island of Montreal. But at M.T.L. Bagel, that aroma ...

Montreal-style bagels may have originated down the 417, but in Ottawa, the debate over which shop does them best is very much alive, and surprisingly personal. At Kettlemans, Bobino, Cadmans and ...

In the name of research, Jennifer Park and her team spent nearly two years crisscrossing North America, tasting hundreds of bagels — one doughy ring at a time. From New York to Montreal, they hunted ...

It really depends on the bagel. I generally toast my bagels and then put butter/cream cheese/whatever on it that will soften the surface. But if it's the prized Montreal bagels of my youth, lovingly ...