Breakfast at Wake and Late yesterday at the corner of Colorado and Oakland. Huge space with indoor seating to come, as well as what appears to be deli services.
This is a rip-and-dip style bagel place that:
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Serves currently only three bagel options (plain, parm, chocolate (the DTLA menu says sweet onion, but Pasadena had chocolate))
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Requires a two-bagel minimum;
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Which in turn requires a two-spread minimum (lox, scallion, plain from what I remember).
Is this the LA-style bagel? 24-hour fermentation that was sour, buttery, and crunchy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. The bagel tasted somewhere between its inspiration and a baguette. Freshly baked (so had the texture of a toasted number).
The bagel was great, but I’m still partial to the east coast variety as practiced by Maury’s.
I have not had the breakfast burritos, but seems like this is how Wake and Late built up its reputation.
