Bruegger's is the place to stop when you need to pick up something for that lame office buzzword-buzzkill meeting. These stores offer kettle-boiled bagels—just like bubby used to make—and Wi-Fi, so you can tweet about your newly discovered bagel hotspot. Bruegger's opened in 1983, and claims to have started the retail-bagel concept, with assembly-line-style bagel sandwiches liberating the formerly too-ethnic bagel.
Runners up:
2. Einstein Bros. Bagels
4708 E. Sunrise Drive
615-0508
7151 N. Oracle Road
219-1220
2912 W. Ina Road
742-4584; einsteinbros.com
3. The Bagelry/Brooklyn Bagel Corp.
2575 N. Campbell Ave.
881-6674
