Anyone with a craving for bagels can walk into a grocery store and pick up a half-dozen doughnut-shaped delicacies. But perhaps nowhere in The Woodlands can a bagel fanatic enjoy such a vast selection of New York-inspired bagels than Brooklyn Cafe.
"There's not many places around here that serve bagels, at least at the quality that we do," general manager Graham Smyth said. "We make everything from scratch three or four days a week, so they're really fresh. You just can't beat our bagels. They're top of the line."
Located in the Panther Creek Village Center for 19 years, Brooklyn Cafe regularly offers 20 bagel flavors with about 20 rotating flavors of the month, as well as nine different flavors of cream cheese. Bagel flavors include basic staples, such as plain, everything and sesame, to the more unusual selections, such as the red-colored strawberry bagel, the basil Parmesan bagel and the Fiesta bagel, made with sun-dried tomatoes and jalapeos.
Smyth said all bagels and cream cheeses are made fresh from scratch. So dedicated to recreating the taste of New York-bagels, the restaurant goes as far as using a concentrator in its kitchen that helps imitate the taste of New York water.
