New Yorkers - is Russ & Daughters really worth the wait?

Do we need a new “New Yorkers” thread every couple hours?

R1, no so please entertain us with your observations of about life in the exciting suburbs of Omaha

OP dont forget the pickles.

No, it is NOT!

Yes. For me, absolutely yes. Try the smoked sable.

If you're going to go to a place like that, you should also consider Clinton St. Baking.

R1, please realize that DL is New York-centric and they don't have to care about you, and don't. That's the beauty of living in a superior city with superior people.

New Yorkers, both natives and transplants like R7, are so accustomed to bad restaurants (crappy food, outrageous prices and surly service) masquerading as 5 star restaurants, they wouldn't know a good restaurant if it bit them in the ass. A so-so restaurant in Omaha would qualify as gold star to delusional NYers.

Whitefish on salt bagels!

R8, so true. It’s funny how the Omaha branches of the Olive Garden never get the recognition they do rightly deserve. New Yorkers would just flip for those amazing breadsticks

New Yorkers love the breadsticks at their own booming Olive Garden, although not one will admit ever going in there.

Russ is worth the wait; the daughters, not so much.

Mashup time! Whitefish on Olive Garden breadsticks!

OP if you are staying in Brooklyn and can go anywhere you can have the same breakfast at Juniors in Brooklyn.

I’ve never met a client or colleague for breakfast.

bagels are so 20th century. The best bagel in world is easily destroyed by a careless restaurant

Depending where in Brooklyn you're staying, you can try Shelsky's.

No restaurant or deli is worth standing in line for OP. Just go to Murray's in Chelsea.

Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop in Greenpoint. Fresh bagels and the best donuts and pastries. It's not the fanciest place but the food makes up for it.

R15 probably because no one wants to be spritzed with Aqua Di Gio at 8am.

Just get some leftover bagels and a can of tuna at the Dollar Tree.

OP, just get a hot dog from a street vendor and call it a day.

R5, that's a very hirsute sandwich, you'd be picking hair from your teeth for a week, but then....

The only sandwich waiting in line for is to be between these buns.

Ugh...The DL is SOOOOO Toxic. Can't even give a straight answer to a basic question without cunting out at OP and each other.

You want an answer, R25? The answer is " No." It's not worth it. Happy?

As a NYer, I refuse to wait. As such I’ve never been to Russ and Daughters.

Bagels on the Square in the Village are the best.

You don't want to wait? Get some of these.

NOPE.

Bagel World, 4th street and 5th avenue in Brooklyn. Bagel Hole on 7th between 12th and 13th streets (I think) also in Brooklyn.

"Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop in Greenpoint. Fresh bagels and the best donuts and pastries. It's not the fanciest place but the food makes up for it."

OMG - I used to LOVE to get an egg and cheese sandwich on one of their whole wheat bagels, toasted of course. That thing is the stuff dreams are made of with all that oozy cheese.

It's the only thing I miss about living in Greenpoint.

Forget bagels, they're high in carbs and have no nutritional value.

But they’re DELICIOUS R33!!

Black Stone Coffee Roasters, Hudson just north of Christopher. Sammy the owner is in at 3:00 AM making bagels, they open at 5:00.

I like poppy with olive cream cheese. And NOT toasted! Ordering a toasted bagel in the 70s would have gotten you mugged. Mugged! At knifepoint I tell ya!

R1-apparently the same way we need New Yorkers to call the rest of us uncultured hay seeds every other post. Don't you know, if you're not in New York, you're not in the center of the universe?

R24 Have the McJebusina bros moved to the LES?

R37 If you're going to make a comment as R1 did you deserve to get slapped down, don't like the thread stay out of it.

R39-what's the matter? Don't like being reminded that New York isn't at the core of existence? Believe it or not, some people don't give a fuck about New York and they find people like you to be pure cunts.

Been here 31 years and never tried it. There is plenty of excellent lox everywhere. And the best bagels are Ess-A-Bagel or Tal.

In the cuntout between r40 and r39, you, r40, are the one being the complete cunt. May yours fall off at its earliest convenience.

OMG Black Stone Coffee Roasters R35 ! My morning place for egg wraps. Though I don’t think I would go out of my way to recommend, it’s a decent NYC place. But I just can’t handle Sammy in AM - I get he’s a hard worker and enthusiastic but I honestly just want to get my stuff and get out in the morning with minimal interaction. He’s a talker. But hope he does well. The bagel shop they replaced moved up Christopher St and seems like it’s doing 1/2 the business.

Utopia Bagels in Queens are NYC's best. Hands down.