Upper West Side's Best Bagel? Check Out This List

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Want to start an argument fast? Tell someone where to get the best bagel on the Upper West Side.

From H&H, to Absolute Bagels, to Pick A Bagel — there's no shortage of choices for a good bagel in the neighborhood. Nor any shortage of opinions on which is the best.

Eater NY decided to take the debate head on and sample nine of the top shops on the Upper West Side, ranking them from top to bottom, to discover which shop is truly the best.

From West 108th Street to West 61st Street, critic Robert Sietsema walked just a touch over five miles in his journey.

To keep his testing scientific, he resolved to only order a plain, untoasted bagel with plain cream cheese at each bagel shop.

Here's all of the shops that Eater visited:

• Absolute Bagels (2778 Broadway)
• Silver Moon Bakery (2740 Broadway)
• Broadway Bagel (2658 Broadway) Note: Eater disqualified Broadway Bagel from the final ranking when they determined their bagels were not boiled.
• Broad Nosh (2350 Broadway)
• H&H Bagels (526 Columbus Ave.)
• Zabar's (2245 Broadway)
• Bagels & Co. (391 Amsterdam)
• Bagel Talk (368 Amsterdam)
• Pick A Bagel (30 West End Ave)

And the final ranking from Eater?

1. Bagels & Co.
2. Absolute Bagels
3. H&H
4. Bagel Talk
5. Broad Nosh
6. Zabar’s
7. Pick A Bagel
8. Silver Moon Bakery

To read more about Eater's rankings — and what they had to say about each bagel — click here.