Beigel Bake is a 24-hour bakery and shop founded in 1974, on
Brick Lane
Brick Lane (Bengali: ব্রিক লেন) is a street in the East End of London, in the borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs from Swanfield Street in Bethnal Green in the north, crosses the Bethnal Green Road before reaching the busiest ...
in
Spitalfields
Spitalfields is a district in the East End of London and within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The area is formed around Commercial Street (on the A1202 London Inner Ring Road) and includes the locale around Brick Lane, Christ Church, ...
, London, England.
Bakery
Its menu is focused on
beigels, baked in the traditional Jewish style with fillings such as hot
salt beef
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...
with mustard,
chopped herring, and cream cheese and salmon. It also serves pastries and sweets such as
Danish rolls,
apple strudel
Apple strudel (german: Apfelstrudel; cz, štrúdl; Yiddish: שטרודל) is a traditional Viennese strudel, a popular pastry in Austria, Bavaria, the Czech Republic, Northern Italy, Slovenia, and other countries in Europe that once belonged to ...
,
Eccles cake
An Eccles cake is a small, round pie, similar to a turnover, filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with demerara sugar. The word cake has generally since narrowed in meaning to sweet, leavened baked good ...
s and cheesecake, as well as white, rye and black bread. Beigel Bake produces 7,000 beigels every day.
The restaurant was rated three stars by ''
Time Out London
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In 2012, the London edition becam ...
'' magazine in 2010 (four stars by the magazine's online users). It was also featured as a location in the photographic pictorial ''Life in the East End'' by London-based cabaret duo
EastEnd Cabaret
EastEnd Cabaret is a musical comedy cabaret character duo based in London, England, formed in late 2009.
History
The first incarnation of EastEnd Cabaret was in November 2009 at the iconic East End pub owned by artist Pauline Forster, The Geor ...
.
Bagel offerings
The bakery offers traditional jewish bakery staples, and most famously their
Salt beef
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in the form of a natural crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite. Salt is present in vast quantitie ...
bagel. Costing around 5 pounds, they also offer bakery staples such as
Challah
Challah (, he, חַלָּה or ; plural: or ) is a special bread of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, usually braided and typically eaten on ceremonial occasions such as Shabbat and major Jewish holidays (other than Passover). Ritually acceptable ...
a sweet jewish bread, eaten on
Shabbat
Shabbat (, , or ; he, שַׁבָּת, Šabbāṯ, , ) or the Sabbath (), also called Shabbos (, ) by Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday. On this day, religious Jews remember the biblical storie ...
. they also offer 4 kinds of bagel.
* plain bagel
* poppy seed bagel
* poppy seed platzel
* onion platzel
See also
*
List of bakeries
This is a list of notable bakeries. A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cakes, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also cafés, serving coffee and tea to customers wh ...
References
{{Reflist
External links
Official website
Ashkenazi Jewish culture in London
Bagel companies
Bakeries of the United Kingdom
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Jews and Judaism in London
Spitalfields