My parents visited recently from Montreal and before they left home they called and asked my two year old if they should bring her anything. They were expecting her to ask for a book or something. She answered, "I want some bagels, Mamie." A girl after my own heart.

They brought a dozen and between my wife, my daughter, and me, they didn't last long. The bagels came from Bagel de L'Ouest, a strip-mall bagelry on Sources Blvd. in Dollard-des-Ormeaux (the suburb where I grew up) that does quite a good job. Not quite St. Viateur or Fairmount but infintely better than the bloated bread bombs that pass for bagels in most of Chicago.

For anyone caught in the West Island suburbs of Montreal, there is also a Yagel Bagel (cited in the previous post) in that part of the world on Blvd. St. Jean.

Bagel De L'Ouest
514-683-2552
4404, boulevard des Sources,
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC H8Y 3B7

Yagel Bagel
514-624-0754
3815, boulevard Saint-Jean,
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC H9G 1X2