Brooklyn Water Bagels – Winter Park, FL
I used to visit my friend Jon Tettambel up in New Jersey on occasion and every time I visited he would pick up these delicious bagel breakfast sandwiches that I could not wait to eat. Ever since I was introduced to that amazing Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese sandwiches on an Everything bagel I have been on a quest to find something as similar as possible that doesn’t require me flying to New Jersey to get it. The claim up in that area is that their bagels taste as a good as they do because of “the water”.
Fast forward to one of our recent trips to Disney’s Vero Beach Resort in Vero Beach Florida. As is the normal ritual we checked our smart phones to see if there was a bagel sandwich store somewhere near the resort. Emily located a bagel shop about 15 minutes from the resort called Brooklyn Water Bagels. Based on everything I knew about bagels I felt this place had as good of a chance as any to have the sandwich that we were looking for.
We could not have been more right! The bagels were as good as we remembered and the sandwiches were amazing too. After our discovery in Vero Beach we quickly went back to the smart phones to determine if there was a Brooklyn Water Bagels somewhere in Orlando. Much to our surprise we found one located in Winter Park just blocks from where I originally lived when I first came down to Florida to attend Full Sail.
Brooklyn Water Bagels – Homemade Bagels
For the past several months Sawyer and I have made it a ritual that every Saturday morning he and I would wake up, get dressed, hop in the car and head to Winter Park, to Brooklyn Water Bagels to pick up our family weekend breakfast. One of the awesome things about Brooklyn Water Bagels is that the make their bagels in house and have a window you can observe through as you wait in line to place your order. We have our order down to a science as I order a bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich For Emily and I to share and Sawyer gets an order of bagel tasters. He eats the bagel tasters in the car on the way home and I have to control my urge to devour my half of the sandwich until I get home.
Although the breakfast sandwich is not an exact replica of the amazingness that we had in New Jersey, it is the closest thing that we have found in our years of searching. For those bagel sandwich purists out there the one thing that Brooklyn Water Bagels does differently is that they chop all their eggs and meat and cheese up and combine it so it’s all in very small chunks. It still tastes delicious to me but the texture difference might throw some of you off.
Hunter has now joined in the fun as for many of our first visits he would be staying with Kee and Colonel on Friday night and not be around on Saturday morning for breakfast. But since he has been around for the last few weekends (due to Grandma Curly’s broken finger… long story) he too is enjoying a plain bagel with butter. If you have not had a chance to stop by a Brooklyn Water Bagels I would strongly suggest that you do so. The bagels are simply the best Florida has to offer! And I can’t beat my traveling companion. It was awesome getting to spend time with my buddy Sawyer!
In case you are looking for the Brooklyn Water Bagels location in Winter Park, FL I have provided a map below.
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