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Regular
Naked and honest. The base recipe — nothing on top, nothing hiding.
Toppings — None
A handwritten note from the baker
NYC-style bagels and real sourdough bread were nowhere to be found around here. The kind with a crackling crust, dense chew, and real tang — the kind you can't fake. So we decided to bring them to Branson ourselves.
We were tired of what "bread" had become — a list of ingredients as long as a receipt, sitting on a shelf for weeks without changing color. Real dough doesn't need any of that. Our bagels: water, the highest-quality flour, yeast, salt, and barley malt syrup. Our sourdough rounds and pan loaves: flour, water, salt, and a living starter. That's everything.
The barley malt syrup is the New York signature: it's what gives a real NY bagel that deep crust color and gentle sweetness — industrial "bagels" skip it and fake the color with caramel coloring. We don't.
Bagel dough is mixed the day before and cold-proofs overnight. Then every single bagel is hand rolled, boiled like a traditional New York bagel, and baked in small batches — about 180 grams of dough each before toppings. That's a serious bagel. It's a whole meal on its own.
We bake out of a licensed cottage kitchen right here in Branson. Because our batches are small, we sell them by text: we message the club, you reply, you pick up. That's the whole system. Simple, honest, and a little old-fashioned.