The Best Bagels in San Francisco (Classic and Gluten-Free)

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Written By Amy Suto
A stack of fresh bagels representing the best bagels in San Francisco

A mostly-gluten-free person ranking bagels sounds like a vegetarian judging a barbecue contest, so let me explain the method: precisely because I rarely eat real bagels, every one I do eat is a considered, researched, high-stakes decision. I’ve tried a bunch of San Francisco’s bagel places. The field has been narrowed. Here are the winners.

Best Bagel in San Francisco: The Laundromat

The Outer Richmond’s The Laundromat is where I’d spend any real-bagel occasion: proper bagels, $3 each, mornings Wednesday through Sunday, pizza-and-wine shop by night. Full review here. (Google Maps)

Best Gluten-Free Bagel in San Francisco: Wise Sons

For the gluten-free crown — my daily-life division — nothing touches the Bodega breakfast sandwich on Wise Sons’ GF bagel at the JCC on California Street. Four receipts in five weeks stand behind this. Full review here. (Google Maps)

Honorable Mention From the Road

When the bagel craving strikes below the Grapevine: Layla Bagels in Los Angeles is incredible, cashew cream cheese and all — the half-bagel flight strategy transfers to any city.

This list updates as the (carefully rationed) research continues — it lives alongside the best restaurants in San Francisco, where every pick gets its own receipts-backed review.

For everywhere else worth your appetite in this city, start with the best restaurants in San Francisco — every spot on it has its own receipts-backed review. Subscribe to my newsletter for new ones as the eating continues; my travel guides prove the appetite has range.