“they were both underwhelming compared to how they were a couple/few years ago. Tougher and denser, with overall less flavor.”
H3
5.9/10
AI-generated summary
Get the . The common advice is to buy your somewhere else, since people say those have gotten denser and lost flavor over the years. The is the one regulars name, and the is worth grabbing too. Prices sting, a with lox runs about $20.
NYC classic — Isadore Mirsky and Morris Kossar founded the bakery in 1936 as Mirsky and Kossar's on Clinton Street, moving to Grand and Essex in the early 1960s after a union dispute and a fire. It is the oldest bialy bakery in the United States, a survivor of a Polish Jewish baking trade that once had its own union. Wikipedia
“they were both underwhelming compared to how they were a couple/few years ago. Tougher and denser, with overall less flavor.”
H3
“The filling isn't baked with the bialy they toss in a lump of watery mushy bits of onion or garlic after baking.”
H3
“I was so disappointed with the one on the Upper West Side. It seemed like the sign saying it was coming was in the window for, like, 5 years so I'm waiting patiently and then it opens and the bialy's are damp, bagels are flavorless.”
H3
“No mustard, no cheese. Pickles and scrap of pastrami on bread toasted on one side. Bullshit.”
H3
“Kossars is still good at the Grand Street location. It is standard to shit on them now for no reason.”
H3
“Got pastrami Reuben on rye, 2 slices of overcooked meat, no cheese or sauce on untoasted bread for $20. Thought it was a joke.”
H3
“The garlic bialy was a bit bland, and probably not as fresh, do it was drier and not as soft as they have been in the past.”
H3
“$20 at Kossars on the lower east side….. pure robbery 1.5 slices of lox and a mid bagel”
H2
“Kossar’s was a really delicious bagel, very well seasoned and chewy but not hard to bite into. I’d go back to Kossar’s in a heartbeat”
H2
“Kossar's is famous for bialy's, not bagels. For that price Russ's and his daughter are better.”
H2
“Get your bialy at Kossar's and your bagel elsewhere.”
H2
“Don't sleep on the bialys from Kossars”
H2