Popup Bagels soft opening today on San Vicente in Brentwood. My partner picked them up a few hours before I ate them, so there is a bit of an asterisk.
Initial thoughts:
- Significantly better than Pop’s down the street. God willing, I will never eat a Pop’s bagel again.
- Did not quite reach the same heights as Popup Bagels in NYC. But - first day of soft open, I ate them several hours later, etc etc. Not a fair comparison, yet.
- The sesame bagel is good; the everything bagel is great.
- Definitely already an upper tier LA bagel, on a similar level as Layla in my opinion, but with a higher potential ceiling based my past experiences with the NYC locations. Not as good as Courage.
