Announcing Bagel-Bench: the definitive guide to NYC bagels.
Every Friday for the past 2 years, we’ve ordered bagels for the whole @ExtendHQ team. 1000s of bagels later, we’re publishing our findings:
S-tier: Apollo and Bagel & Schmear are SOTA, pushing the frontier on the taste × reliability Pareto curve. two of NYC’s leading applied bagel labs
A-tier: Brooklyn Bagel, NYC Bagel & Coffee House, and Murray’s are strong production-ready alternatives. The gap to the frontier is real, but we remain bullish.
B-tier: solid baselines, but we’d like to see more bagel R&D
C-tier: these shops have impressive distribution. We’d love to see that same investment in the core model
D-tier: significant work to do before we’d recommend consumption
like all benchmarks, this one is biased. unlike most benchmarks, we’re admitting it upfront.
what bagel should we eval next?