We grabbed coffee and what I thought was a bagel with onions on it. It turned out, we had bialys in our hand. And, no, this bialy and the bagel I expected were not the same. Upon closer inspection ...

Bialys – traditional ones with onions or garlic and Mediterranean variations such as olive and sundried tomato – are sold in Kossar’s alongside their more famous Jewish cousins: bagels. As mentioned ...

The bagels themselves are imported from Lincolnwood’s New York Bagel and Bialy, and are the epitome of what one would imagine ...

One Friday morning, after a few hellacious days of office drama, a dear co-worker showed up bearing tiny cardboard boxes adorned with Essence Bakery stickers. Passing one to us, she said, "I ...