HARRIE’S BAGELMANIA
Did you hear the one about the bad Jewish restaurant? The food was terrible….and oy…the portions were so small!
ELV is confused about Harrie’s Bagelmania. People love it, Jewish people really love it, and the old Las Vegas Country Club guard flocks here like it’s a Borscht Belt buffet. From the raves it gets, you’d think Henny Youngman was in the kitchen and Jackie Mason was the maitre ‘d.
We found the bacon overcooked, the bialy atrocious, the bagel standard issue, and the special smoked/peppered sable devoid of smoke and garnished with cheap, tasteless commercial pepper.
The cookies and rugalach we brought home were of that hideously overcooked, crumbly, none-too-sweet school that only lousy Italian pastry cooks and second-rate delis have perfected.
The lox-studded cream cheese was first rate, however, and the service couldn’t have been friendlier, so maybe it’s worth a second look.
Our total bill for two breakfasts and a box of cookies that quickly found their way into the trash can came to $40.
HARRIE’S BAGELMANIA
855 East Twain Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 80109
702.369.3322
(Cash only)
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
December 15th, 2011 at 8:27 am
What does “standard issue” mean, in the context of a bagel?
December 15th, 2011 at 8:31 am
I’d assume it to mean the kind you buy at the City Centre supermarket.
December 15th, 2011 at 8:35 am
If you don’t know what a good bagel tastes like, I’m not going to waste my breath educating you.
That being said, the bagel tasted like all bagels taste west of the Hudson: like a slightly chewy piece of round bread….with neither the nice hard shell of the real thing, or that ever-so-slight, yeasty/gumminess that you get from a good baker.
December 15th, 2011 at 8:47 am
.. was the bacon parve ?
December 15th, 2011 at 9:19 am
Overcooked bacon at a Jewish-centric place…
Better make sure the cook doesn’t get a hold of this slab:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/disabled-pig-walks-on-front-legs_n_1121557.html
December 15th, 2011 at 9:32 am
95% of all bagels anywhere aren’t right, sadly. My kingdom for a chewy crust!
p.s. isn’t complaining about the bacon at a deli also some kind of punchline?
December 15th, 2011 at 10:58 am
Rolls with holes (standard issue western “bagel”) and overcooked bacon? You can see how that would make anyone’s mouth water.
December 15th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Have you tried Bagel Cafe? The one on Buffalo south of Summerlin Pkwy NOT the one inside Red Rock Casino. I think it’s pretty good.
December 15th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
If you need to cut the bagel into thirds you know it isn’t from NY
December 15th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Actually, I’m impressed with the few bagels Chris Herron is doing at Bread and Butter. The other day, I had a Jalapeno Cheddar version, a sacrilege, perhaps, but so good, dense and chewy, cream cheese and butter were unnecessary.
December 15th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Which reinforces the fact that we still need a GOOD Jewish Deli in town.
TRH
December 15th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Why cant they keep Jews in jail?
They eat lox
Merry Christmas ELV
December 16th, 2011 at 8:25 am
I would pay fifty bucks for one good Bialy.
December 16th, 2011 at 11:07 am
You are such a goy, John