By Vivian Willett
With a fresh coat of charcoal paint, the new weekends-only Burro Avenue business, A Bagel Co., serves New York-style bagels, sandwiches, and schmears in the building formerly home to Maggie’s Shaved Ice.
Alfredo and Nancy Montoya tell the Reader they’ve always felt like locals, even when living in El Paso. Their family has owned a cabin here for years, and this is where they want to call home.
It was on their first trip to New York that they found their passion. “We fell in love with bagels. Every trip after that, to a new place, we looked for good bagels and just couldn’t find the same quality found in a New York bagel,” Alfredo says.
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They tried to recreate the bagels they had fallen in love at home with but couldn’t figure out why the bagels in New York tasted significantly better…