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Picture: Teddy Wolff
Could 27, 2025
Bagizza, New York Metropolis’s first devoted pizza bagel store, has opened in Midtown Manhattan. The restaurant was based by Michael Park, associate and Grasp Bagel Curler Alex Baka, Govt Chef Steven Cho (Jams, Kappo Masa, Chef’s Membership) and associate Hilary Herscher, in response to a press launch.
The bagel recipe at Bagizza is a fusion of kinds — Montreal and New York — using honey, malt, and a contact of spiced rum within the kettle for a novel depth of taste. By means of intensive testing, the crew perfected a three-stage cooking course of that creates a bagel with the perfect stability of chewiness and crispness. Hand-rolled and cold-fermented for 48-72 hours with a low-velocity fan to retain moisture, the proofing course of is akin to dry ageing beef in the way in which that it concentrates the bagels’ flavors. For the pizza bagels, the bagel dough will get run by way of a sheeter first earlier than being topped and baked.
Other than basic Margherita, the menu will function signature pizza bagel creations like:
- Shrimp Toast — lemon, curry mayo, chives.
- Hawaiian — Pink pineapple, house-cured ham, fleur de sel.
- Artichoke Pizza — garlic bechamel, artichoke, yukon gold potatoes, caramelized onion, anchovy, lemon zest.
- Broccolini Pesto — broccolini pesto, pecorino, chili flakes, fleur de sel, recent broccoli.
- Caponata — garlic bechamel, eggplant, tomato, artichoke, capers, honey, chili.
Clients can even select from a number of do-it-yourself sauces and toppings to craft their ideally suited pizza bagel, together with:
- Bacon Kimchi Jam.
- Caramelized Onion and Bacon Cream Cheese.
- Garlic Confit and Herb Cream Cheese.
- Olive Tapenade Cream Cheese.
- Dill, Caper and Smoked Salmon Unfold.
- Garlic Béchamel.
- Strawberry Butter Unfold.
- Cinnamon Honey Butter
Bagizza may also function a specialty espresso and juice bar.
The restaurant is locatted on the nook of Madison Avenue and forty ninth Avenue. It’s open 24 hours a day, seven days every week.
