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[totient]

The good news: Turenne is open again. Very short hours, but they include the hours of the Union Square farmer's market, where I was picking up ingredients for gazpacho.

The bad news: I have had the real thing recently enough to know that this is not it.

Still pretty good as Boston area bagels go, but much breadier and without the flavor or texture differences from a New York style bagel. It has been much longer since I had a real one of those, but this isn't that either.

St Viateur will ship, with a minimum order of two dozen. It's only slightly more expensive than getting bagels from bakeries around here. I may have to start putting in group orders. In the meantime it was certainly convenient not to have to go out of my way or buy a large quantity.

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[mzrowan]

I would totally get in on a group order from St Viateur!

[ceo]

Hard same!

[foms]

I managed to get to Montreal, last week-end (and am still here and expect to be so for the next week or more). I'm sorry that I missed you.

Today, we had experimental bagels from a newish place, in Cote-des-Neiges because my brother was in a hurry. I think that I'm still a St-Viateur person. The smoked salmon was from New Victoria Fish Market and the croissants from Patisserie de Nancy so all was not lost.

[totient]

We got our croissants from Boulangerie Première Moisson on Avenue Mont-Royal and they were amazing. But there are a lot of amazing croissants in Montreal.

[foms]

In Montreal, even the chains have to try to keep up. Patisserie de Nancy is the croissant of my childhood. I have delivered their newspapers.
Première Moisson received an excellent review from Jim Leff, when he took a trip to Montreal. I miss the old Chowhound, terribly.
In case of need: https://www.mtl.org/en/best-bakeries-pastry-shops

[frotz]

FWIW there are at least two places in the Boston area that stock St. Viateur bagels. Bellmont Cafe (in Belmont Center) sells packs of just the sesame (this is a minor sideline in a prepared food establishment and not everyone who works the counter always knows about it), but Walnut Market in Newton has always had sesame and poppy and recently expanded to a full selection or close to.

St. Viateur mail-order ships frozen, and Walnut Market keeps them frozen while what you get at Bellmont Cafe is a little more random state-wise. (Fresh, though!)