We’d stay up all night to eat these bagels

Now that the Bagel House at 1548 Bayview is open 24 hours a day we have to think of a reason to work in some midnight dining there. As legions of Montreal Bagel fans know, the two genial baker-owners, Jessie Sahdra and Sat Chouhan, have built a fantastic business on quality and superb chewy, flavourful bagels. They began in 1999 when they migrated from traditional Montreal bagel bakeries Fairmount and St. Viateur where they learned their craft. We don’t know whether its ‘the simple ingredients, the hand rolling, boiling in honey water or the wood-oven baking. Together however, the Montreal Bagel is a South Bayview treasure. Correction Make that a national treasure.