But the coffee and chocolate drinks: GREAT!

I went looking for an actual bagel, in Port Townsend, and the BTLC website says they get their bagels from midtown Manhattan, which indeed they do. I was hopeful.

(I am a native NY, New Yorker, and I'm jewish, so I do have Opinions about bagels.)

My first mistake: they said they were out of cinnamon bagels. New rule for bagel hunting: if they come in cinnamon, they're not actual bagels.

The bagel was the size of a small clutch purse, came not toasted, just barely warm, spread a can-you-spare-it thin layer of cream cheese. For $7.50! Insanely overpriced. I would have been happy to pay that, if the bagel-shaped object had been an actual bagel.

It was soft, porous, indifferent as to flavor--not even a tasty white bread. The "crust" was almost as texture-less as the inside. Horrible. That anyone even serves such objects as bagels is ridiculous. But maybe it's me who's ridiculous, looking for an actual bagel in the Pacific Northwest.

My friend had their spinach quiche. $10. Tiny layer of spinach on top of a very creamy but way too garlicky filling, and a pale, indifferent, and undercooked crust. Nope!

It's got wifi, and most of the people inside were on computers. The service was indifferent at best, but the outside seating is lovely, supplemented by lots of unshaded tables on the adjacent little plaza. It's a good location, right on the water, and since the coffee is good, it's probably worth the trip.

But actual bagels, according to me? Nope. I guess being from Manhattan is no guarantee they're actual bagels. Standards!