With five outlets across the Right Bank, Ari’s stands out from the Paris bagel crowd thanks to the quality of its bread. Perfectly toasted on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside, whatever variety you go for (onion, sesame, multi-seed), the bagel is as much a pleasure as the filling. But those are good too: we recommend the original house ‘Ari’s Bagel’, with its canny combo of pastrami, cheddar, honey mustard and crispy fried onions.
A quick and easy lunch to rival any croque-monsieur or panini, the New York-style bagel has slowly become a well-established and respectable on-the-go meal for busy office workers and homesick tourists in Paris. With various chains like Bagelstein and smaller independents like Mo’Bagels now flogging their produce across the city, it can be hard to choose a specific vendor, so here’s our pick of the very best bagel shops in Paris.
