"For my friends and me, our ritual was for years the Papa Cristo’s gyro. Heavily seasoned, spit-roasted, and shaved in heaps, the fatty, dense gyro meat became a shorthand for us all." - Eater LA

"When you bite into a Maury’s bagel, whether undressed or besmeared with cream cheese and draped with lox, you understand that Kaplan’s bagel is an homage to the archetypes of the past (chewy, dense and consistent) with playful twists of the present (za’atar-spiced or topped with avocado and tomatillo)."