Again, like Chinese food, bagels are also something I gladly detest like a sickness in NYC.....but eat to no end and thus dissolve all logic once I'm in Montreal.
Fairmount's bagels are much thinner and crispier...and fresher by a longshot compared to the smelly ring-sponges NYC passes off for a bagel, no question! Sucks that they don't have butter...juat cream cheese, jelly or lox...but that's also a testament to how heavenly they are by themselves.