Bagels and.....
 

Moving up from south Florida and need a good recc for "appetizers". Where can we find a really good bagel and nova lox sandwich?

The Brooklyn Bagel Shope. In a shopping center on 441, across the street from Sam's. Really good bagels shipped in from NY and all the fixings.

Brooklyn Bagel as close as you're going to get to a real NY bagel (I say this will prejudice as I'm a NYC transplant). Nova is decent at Toojays's (Spanish Springs and Lake Sumter Landing). We're going back to NYC end of September to bring really good Nova back from a smokehouse in Queens, but the Nova at Toojay's is good. Haven't tried the Nova at Brooklyn Bagel. Also, Nova and Nova bits on sale at Fresh Market.

Chopped Liver at Toojays is excellent, but the whitefish salad...not so much. Can't find good creamed or pickled herring.

Another vote for Brooklyn Bagels (I'm from Brooklyn)
texasfal... I believe you meant to say, the WATER is shipped from Brooklyn. The bagels are made right there-- you can watch them making them.

Here's their link

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. - Quality New York Style Bagels

OK everybody. Brace yourselves. Seriously. No disrespect meant here. The only Nova I know is the television show. As my old English teacher would say, "To what are you referring?"

Nova Scotia lox

For those of us who think no Sunday morning is complete without a bagel and lox, we either buy "nova" which is short for nova scotia lox or we buy "belly" lox which is much saltier.

Another vote here for "Brooklyn Water Bagels". Toojays does a pretty good job for lox and for kippered salmon. My daughter also likes their whitefish salad, but I'm not a fan, even though I am a big fan of TooJays.

Thank you kindly. I'm guessing here, but I'm pretty sure a lox is a fish? Is the preparation of the fish what makes it different from others? Honestly I have heard these terms before but no one was ever patient enough to define them for me. Do you spread it on a bagel or slice it? I'm thinking maybe with cream cheese?

We had a Bruegers Bagels here in Youngstown a few years ago and I went nuts over the place. I was a little apprehensive about the items questioned above but I dove into everything else with mouth wide open. Can't wait to get to TV and explore these delicacies again. Lox, huh? I'm definitely on my way!

Won't butt into your conversation any more. Just watch, listen and learn....... I should have been born in NYC!!!

Cold smoked salmon

Lox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

LOL!! Yes, lox is salmon. Lox is salmon fillet that has been cured. In its most popular form, it is thinly sliced and, typically (in North America), served on a bagel, often with cream cheese, onion, tomato, cucumber and capers. Lox in small pieces is also often added and cooked into scrambled eggs, sometimes with chopped onion. The food and its name were introduced to the United States through Scandinavian immigrants, though it was popularized by Jewish immigrants.The term lox derives from Lachs in German and in Yiddish,meaning "salmon".

By the way, I never had a fried bologna sandwich until I moved to Ohio from NY.

Bring some up from Bagel Emporium in Coral Gables (I used to manage that restaurant in the mid-80s) or Coral Bagels in Coconut Grove.:a040: If not, Brooklyn Water Bagels is a decent alternative.

Yea, then you can complain about everything is better in NY but you chose to live here. Better pizza, water, bagels, seafood, entertainment, etc.

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