The Kosher Bagel Hole of Midwood seems undervalued/undervisited by non-ultra Orthodox Jews, even though (or maybe just because) it is across the street from da deified Di Fara’s Pizza on Avenue J.   The lines at the Kosher B. Hole can be long too but they generally move faster, since Dom across the street has been making every pie by hand for fifty years.  The bagels are as good as the best in the city.

Wait in line with exotic Semitic characters in the wilds of Midwood. If you get there at the right time of the morning, you may get the most perfect hot bagel in history, even if the whole bag is rarely like that.  You just need a few.  Crispy on the outside and piping hot on the inside. You know what I’m talking about. The rest of them will be good too.

Whatever you do not eat that morning, SLICE AND FREEZE IMMEDIATELY.

Lines out the door before Passover and an 8 day closure. Check the Jewish calendar for holidays.

Pretty sure these places are not related to the “Bagel Hole” in Park Slope.

Kosher Bagel Hole
1423 Avenue J
Brooklyn

Kosher Bagel Hole
1431 Coney Island Avenue
Brooklyn

Trains: Q to Avenue J