Hi Everyone,
This post is a very special edition of Sunday Bagels With
Dad. As you know, we’ve been on this
litte adventure of ours for a year and a half.
Tomorrow, August 26, 2016, I start an adventure of a new kind:
college. I’m an incoming first-year
student at SUNY Geneseo studying Elementary Education/Elementary Special
Education. I’m really excited, but it
also means big changes are coming. So I
figured I would take this opportunity not only to give our final review on the
blog, but also to tell the Sunday Bagels With Dad story.
Sunday morning breakfast has been a part of my weekly
routine with Bryan for much, much longer than we’ve had this blog. For years, we went religiously every week to
Bagels 101 in Middle Island, of which a review will follow below. Then, one day about four years ago, Bryan
suggested we try something new every week, and Sunday Bagels With Dad was, in
effect, born that day. From then until
February 2015, we went to a new bagel place every week and discussed what we
liked a lot and didn’t like as much about each store we went to. We searched religiously with Bryan’s GPS
every week to make sure we didn’t go to the same place twice.
Then, in the beginning of February 2015, we went to a place
in St. James and got caught up in a conversation with the owner. We spoke about different bagel places we had
been to, and which ones were our favorites.
As the conversation unfolded, we realized we knew a lot about Long
Island’s bagel shops. When we left the
bagel place that day, Bryan suggested a blog where we would rate the bagel
places we visited, and the idea excited me.
The next week, we launched our blog as well as our Twitter and Facebook
accounts, and posted our first ever review: The Everything Bagel of Commack,
which you can view here.
In the year and a half since we launched our blog, we’ve
been to over 50 bagel places, and we’ve rated them all. Some of the bagel places were stores that we
had visited in the past, but wanted to revisit so we could rate them on the
blog. Others were places we had never
been before, and we still get excited when a new bagel place opens or we
stumble upon a bagel place we never knew existed.
So this past Sunday, when we realized it was going to be our
last Sunday breakfast together for awhile, I suggested the place “where it all
began”, Bagels 101 in Middle Island.
Before I post our last review, I just wanted to say thanks,
on behalf of both Bryan and myself, to everyone who’s shown interest in our
little project. Just seeing pageviews
gratifies us and motivates us to keep going.
I wish all of our viewers the best of luck in all of their future
endeavors.
And now for our review:
On Sunday, we visited Bagels 101 in Middle Island!
Bagels 101
852 Middle Country Road
Middle Island, NY 11953
Phone: (631) 205-9511
Bryan wasn’t hungry and didn’t order anything. I ordered a light-colored sesame bagel with
cream cheese. Here is my rating:
Taste: 4 ½
Atmosphere: 5
Service: 4 ½
Since this is the bagel store we’ve visited most often and
made so many wonderful memories at, I have a soft spot for Bagels 101 bagels. So maybe I’m a little biased, or maybe it
tasted like coming home, but I loved the taste of my bagel and the cream
cheese. The store is gorgeous. The seating area, of which there is plenty,
is clearly set apart from the waiting area, so it’s very easy to sit and enjoy
your meal without hordes of people packed near you like sardines waiting for
their orders, something we’ve experienced at some places. Our server was very nice. I happened to recognize her from the times we
used to visit every week, and Bryan mentioned to her that we remembered her. We talked to her for a while. Also, she made my bagel just the way I had
asked for it. J
Overall, we love this bagel place, and would highly
recommend it to anyone in the area.
Once again, thanks for following our little journey. Best wishes for all that lies ahead.
Love,
Rebecca
