At Murray’s Bagels in New York City, you can choose from 20 varieties of cream cheese, 10 different kinds of salmon, lettuce, tomato, onion, capers, you name it. You can have a plain bagel, cinnamon raisin bagel, wholewheat everything bagel, whatever.
And now, you can even get your bagel toasted.
Murray’s, considered one of the best bagel shops in America’s bagel capital, had for 19 years maintained a strict no-toasting policy. There wasn’t even a toaster on the premises. The ban quickly entered New York lore, a stubborn and hotly debated quirk in a city full of them.
“The no-toasting thing has created a little mystique at Murray’s,” the store’s owner, Adam Pomerantz, said years ago.
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