Queens Bagelry Tops Interactive List Of 200 NYC Bagel Shops

QUEENS, NY — After eating 200-plus bagels one New Yorker has found the city's best bagelrys — and a shop in northeast Queens tops the list.

"Everything is Everything" is an interactive map and ranking made by Mike Varley, a New Yorker who ate about three everything bagels with scallion cream cheese per-week (hence the project's name) for 13 months in search of the city's best bagel shop. Time Out first reported on the list.

Varley scored hundreds of bagel shops based on their ambiance, their bagels' size and texture, and the freshness and dairy-ness of their spread, resulting in multiple scatterplot matrixes and a ranking of best to worst — upon which Whitestone's beloved Utopia Bagels placed third citywide.

"The data compiled on this site represents the most comprehensive bagel survey of New York City ever attempted," Varley wrote.

Utopia Bagels — a shop located at 1909 Utopia Parkway that's consistently named among the city's best bagels — scored a four-and-a-half out of five on the "Everything is Everything" ranking, earning it the title of second-best bagel in Queens and "bagel of note" and "spread of note" awards (honors that were only handed out to 14 other stores in each category).

"Steller example of a bagel that doesn't go hard on toppings yet still distinguishes itself as an everything bagel first, not a plain bagel with sparse toppings," writes Varley on his ranking, noting that the bread at Utopia Bagels is still fresh at noontime, since the shop is constantly churning out bagels (70,000 per-week according to the owner's estimate).

The cream cheese is served in generous portions and spreads in a slightly messy way that demonstrates quality, according to Varley.

As for the store, Varley says that there's plenty of options — including a variety of cream cheese flavors and fish salad options as well as gluten-free bagels. "High quality experience," he writes.

Utopia Bagels is second only in Queens to P & C Bagels in Middle Village, which is the only shop on the "Everything is Everything" ranking to score a five out of five for its bagel.

Bagel lovers who can't make the journey to Whitestone can find solace in an NFT bagel, since every review is being sold as one of the internet tokens.

You should act quickly, though, since 80 of the 202 NFT pieces from the "Everything is Everything" collection are reportedly already sold.