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This ex-New Yorker has been missing her bagels since she moved to Marseille. I even contemplated trying to make some, but after much research found that my laziness won over my stomach, that being on the assumption that I could even make them. Aix has had them for awhile and another Amercian-expat I spoke to drives each weekend there just to pick them up. Well tummies growl no longer...you can pick them up from a new deli that opened recently called Oscar's. The place has the authentic feel of a NY deli with brick walls and back-counter comradery of the staff members all dressed in white-tees with the bagel logo on them.

Oscar's uses only genuine H&H bagels, flown in from the famed NY bagelerie* (can I make my own french word for this?) They have all the essentials on hand: plain, onion, sesame, cinnamon and some I haven't even tried yet. Of course, what would a bagel be without cream cheese... and that too is real... I have been getting by with my kiri cheese substitute up until now. I had my initiation with a onion bagel, cream cheese and locks...yummmm.

 They also offer many other specialities such as pancakes, donuts, wraps, cheesecake and pecan pie while including the french standards also. I have to give it up for their fruit smoothies, the mango smoothie was one of the best I have had here in Marseille.

Oscar's

8 Quai De Rive Neuve (on the Vieux Port across from the Irish Pub)

Tel: 04 91 33 28 86