Hands down, the best bagel store I've visited in my life. Nothing comes close.
The only "machine" I saw here is the cash machine. Everything else is hand made. You can see the bagel preparation process while ordering. Everything is hand made, with care.
Get the Montreal style bagel. It is the equivalent of everything bagel. There is no match to it. Other winners are cumin, chocolate chip, and sun dried tomato bagels.
We took our bagels to Illy coffee next door to eat. There is no space to sit at Fairmount bagels, there is barely enough space to stand.
I bought a whole bag of the Montreal style bagels to bring home and forgot them on the plane. I listened to my man for an entire week, as a punishment. Yeah, they are that good.