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A good bagel stop is built around details: the chew of the dough, the crust from the bake, the seasoning on top, and the schmear or sandwich that finishes the order. Across Metro Detroit, local shops and bakers are serving everything from plain and sesame to sourdough, roasted garlic, and fully dressed breakfast sandwiches.
Loop
22087 Michigan Avenue, Suite 100, Dearborn
Loop’s Dearborn shop keeps its menu focused on classic bagel-shop ordering, with varieties such as poppy, blueberry, za’atar, asiago, jalapeño cheddar, and cinnamon crunch, plus cream cheese options that range from honey & walnut and Nutella & hazelnut to tomato basil and labneh & olive. The sandwich side of the menu takes it a step further, giving those bagels more structure, with egg-and-cheese breakfast sandwiches with avocado and chipotle aioli, lox-style builds, and lunch options layered with deli meats and veggies. The Coffee Bar and fresh juices round out the stop, making it easy to pair a toasted everything bagel with a schmear or tune in for a seasonal specialty flavor combination.
Bev’s Bagels
4884 Grand River Avenue, Detroit
283 Hamilton Row, Birmingham
Bev’s Bagels centers its menu on organic sourdough bagels, with options such as pumpernickel, spicy furikake, salt, cinnamon raisin, sesame, and more. The shop makes its own cream cheese schmears, with selections such as roasted garlic & scallion, lox & chive, chili crisp, za’atar & kalamata olive, green goddess, and maple cinnamon, with vegan plain or scallion options also available. As for bagel sandwiches, you can build-your-own experience, or go with a sandwich like the breakfast Green Chili & Chorizo, the Core City Reuben with wagyu pastrami, Sorta Spicy Hummus with hot cherry peppers, or the Jambon It, with rosemary ham and dill havarti. Owner Max Sussman developed Bev’s after returning to Michigan from New York, building the business first as a pop-up and then as a Detroit storefront (and now an additional spot in Birmingham) with pastries and monthly specials folded into the menu. As Sussman puts it, “While the bagels are great, maybe the thing I’m most excited about with Bev’s is that we’ve created a place for people to gather. We’re a neighborhood spot. Like a friendly watering hole, but, ya know, for bagels and sandwiches.”
Eastside Bagel
21601 Harper Avenue, St. Clair Shores
Eastside Bagel serves a wide deli-style menu on Harper Avenue, with bagel flavors that include Augratin, cinnamon apple, egg poppy, feta, sea salted rosemary, spinach asiago, sun-dried tomato, and honey wheat. Cream cheese choices include strawberry, Michigan cherry almond, scallion, garden vegetable, chipotle, and French toast, to name a few, giving the menu plenty of room for both sweet and savory orders. The counter also builds breakfast sandwiches with egg, cheese, bacon, sausage, or ham, including the weekend-exclusive Big Hash (a bagel topped with hash browns and cheese), along with deli sandwiches, soups, salads, and lox for a more traditional order available on the regular.
Zingerman’s Bakehouse
3711 Plaza Drive, Ann Arbor
Zingerman’s Bakehouse brings its bread-making approach to a concise lineup of old-fashioned bagel flavors. Marketing Manager & Photographer Corynn Coscia shares, “Our bagels are made the old-fashioned way. We start with great ingredients, give lots of time for the dough to ferment, and use traditional boiling and stone hearth baking. The resulting bagel is dense and chewy with bigger holes, better crust, and bigger flavor.” Bagel choices here include Enough Already Everything, Roasted Garlic, Sea Salt, Sesame Street, and the Amazin’ Raisin. Those options sit alongside the bakery’s broader case of hearth breads, morning pastries, cookies, and hearty sandwiches perfect for when lunchtime rolls around.
Bagel Spot Deli and Grill
3010 South Adams Road, Auburn Hills
Bagel Spot Deli and Grill brings a broad breakfast-and-lunch menu to South Adams Road, with bagel flavors such as onion, whole wheat, pumpernickel, blueberry, chocolate, garlic mozzarella, and French toast. The spread selection includes green olive, jalapeño, veggie, blueberry, cinnamon walnut, raspberry, and lemon, while the grill side of the menu adds egg-and-cheese sandwiches with bacon, sausage, or turkey alternatives. Lunch orders move into hot pastrami, grilled turkey, marinated chicken, tuna salad, and panini options, giving the shop a menu that starts with a toasted bagel and continues well past breakfast.
Metro Detroit’s bagel scene has range, from hearty plain and roasted garlic bagels to twists and unexpected flavor profiles. The common thread is the bagel itself, whether it is ordered with scallion cream cheese, built into a breakfast sandwich, or taken home by the dozen.
This article has been updated to include new information. The original article was published on February 20, 2023, and was authored by Katie Goncalves.
