This one wasn’t a hard choice at all; Boichik Bagels makes the best bagels in the San Francisco Bay Area for 2024.
I originally noticed the incredible quality of Boichik Bagels way back in 2020. In fact, I scooped the New York Times with my choice of Boichik as the best bagel place in America!
Boichik Bagels are the creation of Emily Winston, a former engineer, who has made it her life’s mission to duplicate New York’s bagels here on the West Coast.
She has accomplished that and more, much to the chagrin of New Yorkers. The New York Times called her West Coast bagels the best in America–even better than the classic NYC bagels she sought to re-create.
You can still get bagels at Boichik’s original College Avenue shop in Berkeley, California, where people line up for half an hour or more to make a purchase.
But with the launch of her 18,000-square-foot factory on Sixth Street in Berkeley, Winston is rapidly expanding Boichik to multiple places around the Bay Area.
New stores opened this year in San Francisco and down in SoCal, and there are Boichik Bagels in Silicon Valley and Marin now too.
Our favorite thing is to visit the factory location on Sixth Street and watch Boichik’s bagel robot in action. The giant glass windows there are a perfect place for kids to see the bagel-making process.
We’ve covered every aspect of Boichik over the years, from their festive bagels to their experiments with chickencycling. We’re thrilled to choose Boichik as our 2024 pick for the Bay Area’s best bagel place.
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