- Coconut Grove location
- Sourdough-water bagels
- Mornings, weekends extended
- Counter and grab-and-go
El Bagel is the Mat Chiarelli bagel programme — sourdough-water bagels boiled and baked in small batches, a morning queue that does not move particularly fast, the only proper New York bagel in Miami after twenty years of failed attempts. The shop format is the right antidote to the heavy Miami breakfast.
Arrive at eight, take the everything with lox and the sesame with chive cream cheese, drink the coffee on the bench outside. The address is the right answer for the morning that wants New York before the day starts.
The bagel the New Yorkers admit to.
