I thought I recommended this place already … anyway, Double O’s Bagels Cafe has good bagels in a rather obscure corner of Danshui, behind Aletheia University. Big and welcome range of bagel sandwiches available: today I had a Philly cheesesteak. They also sell different types of store-made cream cheese.
Not exactly cheap: the bagel sandwich was $450 (other flavours are much cheaper, and this did have a very generous pile of meat!); a bag of four everything bagels (yes, with poppyseed!) were $340; the very big container of sesame-bacon cream cheese was $350. Plus a range of good cheesecakes and other desserts, and the usual range of coffees. Take-out only unless you’re willing to sit on one of the benches they have for people waiting; the nearby campus probably has nice places to sit outside.
Open 10am-4pm, closed Mondays. When I was there in May I had to wait a long time. Today no wait. Apparently they got weirdly screwed by someone informing Google they had permanently closed, which is what I saw on Google Maps for a while, which is definitely why I hadn’t gone there since May, and is perhaps why I didn’t recommend them before.
EDIT: Cash only! And like a bunch of mid-range restaurants, they’re at that price point where it’d be pretty easy to want to buy more than the cash you’ve got in your wallet.
