Once sprawling Finagle A Bagel now down to just two outlets

Finagle A Bagel has softly closed its Test Kitchen connected Rowe Street successful Newton's Auburndale neighborhood, leaving it with conscionable 2 nosheries - connected Boylston Street successful Copley Square and astatine Mass. General.

At its peak, the chain, founded successful 1991, had 21 outlets successful the Boston area. But successful 2008, the mates who had bought the concatenation 10 years earlier decided to easiness retired of nonstop retail sales, adjacent unsocial bagel places with conveyor belts, and concentrate connected bulk bagel baking for retailers crossed the state seeking white-label bagels.

The archetypal proprietor was celebrated for shlepping a pail of Boston water from his Faneuil Hall store to New York with which to marque immoderate bagels to disprove jaded New Yorkers who claimed that what made New York bagels truthful bully was New York City water. At a New York bagel place, helium made 2 batches of bagels, 1 with Hub water, the different with New York pat - and cipher could archer the difference.