You can’t go to New York and not get a bagel. Surely. I have long been thinking about the bagel Alex picked up for me on my last visit a couple of years ago, and there’s a Brooklyn Bagel Company outpost not far from the hotel, so we head over for a quite sizeable breakfast - for as much as I’ve been reminisicing about that previous bagel, I’d forgotten just how substantial they are. I go for a pretty much classic - smoked salmon and a scallion cream cheese, with some capers and red onion, on an everything bagel, lightly toasted. It is perfect, and I will later pretty much not eat lunch. Alasdair finds they have a tofu-based vegan cream cheese, so gets to enjoy that on a blueberry bagel, and we both have an orange juice which really does hit the spot.