Bruegger's is the place to stop when you need to pick up something for that lame office buzzword-buzzkill meeting. These stores offer kettle-boiled bagels—just like bubby used to make—and Wi-Fi, so you can tweet about your newly discovered bagel hotspot. Bruegger's opened in 1983, and claims to have started the retail-bagel concept, with assembly-line-style bagel sandwiches liberating the formerly too-ethnic bagel.

Runners up:

2. Einstein Bros. Bagels

4708 E. Sunrise Drive

615-0508

7151 N. Oracle Road

219-1220

2912 W. Ina Road

742-4584; einsteinbros.com

3. The Bagelry/Brooklyn Bagel Corp.

2575 N. Campbell Ave.

881-6674