3 Park Slope Bagel Spots Named Among 'NYC's Finest': Ranking

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Park Slopers in search of a good bagel will have more luck than neighbors in any other part of the borough, according to a new ranking.

Three neighborhood spots have made Eater NY's list of "NYC's 22 Finest Bagels," a ranking of the food outlet's most recent favorites across the five boroughs.

The three eateries mean that more bagel joints in Park Slope made the list than in any other neighborhood in Brooklyn. In fact, only two other Brooklyn bagel spots were named among Eater's top 22, one in Bushwick and another in Bensonhurst.

Some of the Park Slope picks will likely come as no surprise, including the critically-acclaimed Shelsky's, which opened its Fourth Avenue location in 2018, and Bagel Hole, which has also has been named one of the top bagel joints in the country. A "little-known bagel bakery" on Prospect Park West rounded out the neighborhood's top spots.

Check out what Eater had to say about each Park Slope spot here:

Shelsky's Brooklyn Bagels

453 4th Ave

"Modernist bagelry Shelsky’s has all the bagel classics in small, dense form, but it sports a few spicy outliers, especially its numbing Sichuan peppercorn bialy with black sesame seeds. and a chile crisp cream cheese. Indicative of the appetizing shop’s contemporary founding, the preparation of the bagels shows extra care, in ways such as using a sourdough starter in the bagels, actual egg in the egg bagels, and a chopped cheese and Taylor ham sandwich available on a bagel or bialy."

Bagel Hole
400 7th Ave

"This tiny, Park Slope bakery serves one of the city’s best bagels — crispy, chewy, and robust. It first opened in 1985 and serves a standard menu of bagel classics. The postcard premises is lined with bodega-style fridges up front with juices, doesn’t have any seats, and only takes cash, but the bagels are often still hot."

Terrace Bagels
222 &, 222A Prospect Park West
"This little-known bagel bakery sandwiched between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery ensconced in a double storefront produces one of the city’s broadest range of bagel flavors and a correspondingly large array of cream cheeses. One of our favorites is the egg everything bagel, which enriches its multiple herbal flavors with egg, and another is a cinnamon raisin bagel with a sweetened cinnamon crust on the outside."

You can read the full best bagel ranking on Eater NY's website.