The Laundromat’s all-day format sees bagels hand-rolled and baked in the morning, with pizza offerings at night. The bagels are from the couple behind Holey Roller Bagels and they lead the charge on the breakfast item, along with coffee courtesy of the Mission’s Grand Coffee. Pick up a sea salt bagel and add on Calabrian chile cream cheese — or any of the other spread offerings as they’re all good.

If you prefer your bagels on the fluffier side, then you might want to try Bay Area mini-chain House of Bagels. But beyond that, if you’re a fan of schmears, this shop offers an impressively wide variety. Fans of sweeter spreads will want to try the ube or honey butter to tug a bagel into dessert territory. There’s also a wide variety of savory spreads beyond the typical scallion schmear — although they make that, too.

There’s an entire class of bagel pop-up-gone-permanent shops that opened across the Bay Area in recent years; Schlocks is among the favorites, managing to maintain the quality that ensured it’d sell out every weekend during its pop-up days. The bagels are rolled by hand and perfect for a caper schmear or chopped smoked lox. If you’re feeling fancy, add on some smoked salmon or trout roe, or go for a smoked ends sandwich with chopped smoked lox, blackened everything spice, and scallion schmear.

This is one of the current bagel pop-up favorites, especially as others have gone on to permanent spots. The line can get lengthy resulting in long waits, so smart folks should place pre-orders if possible. Expect bagels with a nice, almost baguette-like crust and a not-too-dense interior. The cream cheese is made in-house and comes in flavors like chive and scallions and horseradish and shallot; the bagel dog, meanwhile, makes for a good respite from a plain old bagel and cream cheese. If you’re an Everything bagel fan, this one comes loaded with poppy and toasted sesame seeds.

Before there was a Bay Area “bagel scene boom” to speak of, Wise Sons was serving its baked bagels. Now the group has expanded to 12 locations, spreading the bagel love even further afield. If you’re looking for something heftier than a bagel with schmear, try the Crunchy Spice Bagel Sandwich, made with eggs, everything spice chile crisp, some greens, plus melted cheese and a garlic aioli spread.

Sure, most spots offer a lox and schmear bagel sandwich, but how often do you see a pastrami egg n’ cheese? At Delirama, where pastrami is the star, the pastrami egg n’ cheese makes a solid start to your morning but is also a dish that highlights what should be the other star of this Solano Avenue spot: the bagel. (As if you needed another reason to visit.)

Poppy Bagels is the latest pop-up to open a permanent spot, landing in the Temescal neighborhood in Oakland. Poppy established its following at the Grand Lake Farmers Market before launching, so some will be familiar with the open-faced bagel sandwiches — but the capital-M Move is to leave things to fate and buy a Freshie. The Freshie just means whatever bagel just came fresh out of the oven served with butter and salt, a must-try experience for every type of bagel enthusiast.

Boichik Bagels helped usher in a new era in Bay Area — nay, West Coast — bagels. Emily Winston is the mastermind behind Boichik Bagels, which has garnered plenty of press for bagels based on her memories of H&H in New York. Boichik has spread quickly throughout the Bay Area with good reason, and it’s a good first stop for your tour of Bay Area bagels if you haven’t already been. Try the Eggything Bagel, an eggy bagel with everything spice, and the hatch chile cream cheese.