Brick Lane Beigel Bakery

This is the VERY best salt beef bakery in the UK - I am sure that it must be!! My partner and I have now lived in Morocco for 7 years (we used to live in South London and travel over to the bakery most weekends) and only manage to have it once or twice a year when a friend brings us a pound or two - instead of almost every Sunday morning!

If Brick Lane bakery - or anyone else - could give me their recipe for salt beef we would be ETERNALLY grateful.
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Carole Mitchell, Essaouira, Morocco
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

this is the best bakery in london having lived in the east end all my life and also eating in there for 30 years it is great the salt beef is perfect friendly staff they also sell smoke salmon by the pound it is another great thing. im jewish and proad that we have such a lovely bakery in the east end which is now a multiculture area. i know the owner he is israeli and knows how to bake cakes and make salt beef. they also sell chollas which is plated bread all in all a great place and very cheap for salt beef sandwiches.
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Bradley Phillips
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Fantastic - the salt beef bagel is a thing of beauty and absolutely delicious
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Helen Prudames
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, November 01, 2009

Fantastic place. The bread is so tasty you dont need any spreads or sauces and there's all kinds of fillings for only £2 or £3. They have huge slices of cakes for 75p and they're open all the time.

I would definitely go out of my way to go here.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Monday, August 17, 2009

For me this has got to be a hidden gem in old London Town.

All I can say its simply the best bit of grub money can buy.

Quantity and quality in equal measure - I recommend this place to all and sundry.

You won't find better.

Salt Beef Bagels of the highest quality - and get plenty of mustard on it !!
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Jimmy B
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Thursday, April 30, 2009

The salt beef bagels cannot be challenged,absolutly fantastic,If were up town visiting a museum i,m willing to sit in traffic,and drive to the other side of london,just to buy us a couple(1 is and promise never enough).There was, many years ago a documentory just on the brick lane 24hr bagel shop which was very intresting.The shop provides many jobs for the local community ,that must be a good thing on it,s own.Can,t wait to visit again.
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Mick Brown
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Sunday, April 05, 2009

Hard to compare this place to other restaurants on this site but as far as a good salt beef beigel you simply cannot beat this place.

The staff are always cheerful, the place is always packed ( and I've been every day ot the week, lunch times, evenings, 3am and I think even on Christmas day), and the beigels are the best in London.

A regular haunt for over 25 years !
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Chris - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 10
Friday, March 06, 2009

Obviously one of the best beigal places in London, fantastic food. Wish I could get out there more.
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J Vuglar
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Food 10 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Saturday, February 14, 2009

A very old haunt of mine and I was delighted to pop in again after a gig at Cargo last night. The salt beef beigel was absolutely lovely, succulent, tasty and with a lovely blast of heat from the mustard. It is without doubt the best post night out snack you can have. a great institution I hope to keep popping in for many years to come!
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david ginsberg - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Nom nom nom!

Ended up in here today. I'd never had a beigel or salt beef and now I think I may have developed a new addiction. Just know that the time will come that I'll get a 4 am taxi across town. That beef was just so tender, and in such big juicy chunks and all the mustard kind of melting and seeping between the fibres of the meat.

Seriously good food.
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 10
Saturday, September 20, 2008