Great Beigel Bake Off

Emma Brand feels the love for Brick Lane’s Beigel Bake.

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Whether it is 4am or 4pm, if you head to Brick Lane there is somewhere you can always get beigels and a selection of cakes, doughnuts and pastries.

Beigel Bake, the Brick Lane bakery and shop, is open all hours to all comers – and people come from all over the world for their famous salt beef beigels.

At 4pm it’s busy with tourists and shoppers looking for a cheap snack, or local kids on their way home from school.

Fast-forward 12 hours to 4am and the clientele is quite different: drunken revellers staggering home and looking for something other than a kebab; travellers wanting food to fuel them for their journey; and graphic designers pulling another all nighter and popping out from their ‘live work space’.

Not forgetting the students who love Beigel Bake because ‘whether I’m coming home from uni or a night out, I know I can always have my favourite cheese beigel.’

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