Blackheart Bagels

Cash only: 6 bagels for $ 7.50; 2 ounces of cream cheese (enough for 3 bagels) for $ 2.00.
Tasty, great crust and crumb. On the north side of Re-​Rack selling out of a cute ‘lil window. I’m grateful to have a nearby bagel shack and this does kick the pants off Einstein.

This is a review by a vegetarian
$ 7.50 for 6
Yes, they’re real but they’re not spectacular. Probably closer to what Teri Hatcher looks like today than when she first delivered the origin of that previous sentence.
These are boiled glutenous bagels and much finer fare than at any Einstein’s or BagelLand. However they are still a work in progress. There was a ring of underdoneness in my set, there’s a little too much semolina on the bottom, and there are rack lines from proofing or drying or something. These seem more like good homemade bagels than pro-​kitchen output. Am I nitpicking? sure, but bagels are a simple food so any imperfection to expectation stands out.
In the land of the blind (the Portland Bagel scene) the one-​eyed man is king and these are fully stereoscopic if slightly myopic. It’s possible this new provider will tweak to ²⁰⁄₂₀.

Probably not better than the original Kettlemans but maybe close. They are better than Einstein and definitely better than Kenny & Zukes. Oh and please don’t even try Bagel Land, not sure how they stay in business.
So we are proclaiming Blackheart the new NE ‘go to’ bagel place. They had a nice hand made look to them. Best when toasted so had a nice crisp outside with a chewy interior. Might be a tad too chewy when comparing to a true New York bagel but my memory of last spring is fading fast. We got four bagels this morning around 8:40 am and they were almost out. Get there early and give them a try!

Get here early, apparently they only make one batch of bagels a day. We stopped by at 9:15ish and they had a few plains and sesames left. The dude in front who forgot his money got the last everything on good faith — bastard. I know a little something about bagels having grown up in NYC buying bagels from H&H a few blocks from my apartment. These are much better from those «rolls posing as bagels» you find everywhere in this town. They have a nice shell w/​chewy exterior and good interior but not quite the signature flavor. The sesame seeds strangely don’t have much sesame flavor. Also this is a place that doesn’t prepare a bagel for you — what?! Yes you have to buy the cream cheese separately and DIY. Not cool. I also don’t understand why they have to import their artisanal cream cheese all the way from California — what?! so not green of them. Can we not get some local to figure out the recipe of three ingredients? With a few tweaks they might have something here… stay tuned.

I am so excited to have bagels that don’t need toasting. These are just how I like them, even better than Kettlemans. Bring your own salmon. Weird hours so make sure you know before you go. When they sell out the go home.

The bagel was great! Fresh and with a nice crust (?) to it.
But… I would have loved it to be toasted. Or maybe just a note on the website that you don’t toast, and also don’t serve coffee (I just assumed, and think many might as well), just so that at 6:30am I know what I’m getting into.

Oh wow! Boiled bagels with that slight, slight fresh crackle to them when you bite it. Local. Fun. Love this place. They have this new little retail booth at 22^nd and Sandy. Get here fast because they sell out often. Super nice people running this place. And really excellent cream cheese.