SFist: What's Going On Here, Katz Bagels?

Brock Keeling

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:14:49 -0800

BANNED! kidding. by why? it's ever so cute!.

GayIsTheNewBlack

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:13:11 -0800

I'm glad it is gone.

Xenu

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:43:52 -0800

Sad, but I can't really complain since I never went there. Still, the UFO bagel is a landmark. Will it be attached to a flatbed truck and hauled around the city like the doggy diner signs?

travin

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:00:34 -0800

I hope they're just repairing/reinforcing the sign or taking it down to paint. =0(

Ciaran

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:43:41 -0800

Presumably the burger is going to get installed on the back of a flatbed that some Burner is going to drive around town at every god-damned opportunity while Scott Beale takes pictures?

periqueblend

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:56:20 -0800

@ninjakitty, I wasn't saying anything, I was just sayin is all.

ninjakitty

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:49:21 -0800

periqueblend: ah, yes, 'tis a bagel with lox, but me and a certain three-year-old like to think of it as a hamburger. i do see things everyday but sometimes like to let my imagination run wild.

Generic

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:48:06 -0800

Miller's East Coast West on Polk has the bagels you seek. They're boiled & partially baked in New York before they're shipped overnight to SF. Their lox & cream-cheese schmear is to die for. To die.

Doctor Memory

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:48:04 -0800

What Manys said. If they're gone, it's no loss at all.

murphstahoe

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:40:22 -0800

@manys there is at least one level of differentiation in SF Bagels. "Can you slice it with a knife, or does it sort of smush in your hand like raw dough". Posh and Noah's are the primary offenders in this category. Might as well be a piece of wonder bread. I can't figure out how their employees can slice 1000's of those things without taking off many fingers in the process.

periqueblend

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:30:51 -0800

@ninjakitty, you see this thing everyday and still haven't determined what makes a bagel w/ lox and onions, etc... different from a hamburger? hmm

manys

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:10:24 -0800

The funniest thing about this thread is people chiming in about the best bagel when they are all exactly the same level of bread-churn garbage. Not that I don't buy them, but they're all the same everywhere in San Francisco. Some don't include salt on their Everything, but that's about it. Katz actually has a special extra piece of lameness in that they use whipped cream cheese instead of regular. This causes toasted bagels to melt the schmear and run white diarrhea into the wrapper (or your hand) as you bite into it. Fuck 'em, glad they're gone. Cool sign though, I'd say check X-21 for it in about a month.

rzu

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:56:41 -0800

House of Bagels is #1 for bagels in Ess Eff But for the sake of all that is fun and weird, I hope the ugly alien thing returns.

Akit

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:39:59 -0800

Are they going away or is there an other reason? I remember hearing a news report that anything that sticks out too far from a business' property line has to pay for "air rights" to the city, and that costs money.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:32:30 -0800

in so many ways, tabby.

plumpy

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:32:10 -0800

murphstahoe: Well, yeah, all I ever bought in there was an occasional newspaper. I don't really care about the place itself. But I do care about the giant bagel with an alien inexplicably coming out of the top.

tabby

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:31:19 -0800

Sacrilege.

murphstahoe

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:29:11 -0800

Hmm... I'm torn. Katz was "OK". Waaaaaay better than Posh "Bagel" at 18th/Castro, and still on the way to the train. But Holey Bagel in Noe is so much better than Katz it is worth a detour. Bagel Bakery on Townsend is better than Katz but not as good as Holey, but you have to go through the 4th/Townsend intersection of death to get there. But at least since they changed from Izzy's to Bagel Bakery, the wait time has gone from 15 minutes to an acceptable 2-3 minutes. Overall? Losing Katz would be a downer, but not a deadly one.

ninjakitty

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:24:50 -0800

this can't be happening. this is my block. you can't take my hamburger-riding alien. you can't!