Name: Steingold's of Chicago
Address: 3737 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL, 60613
Telephone: 773-661-2469
Price range: $$

Steingold's of Chicago

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📍 3737 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613

Steingold's of Chicago treats a bagel the way a serious bakery treats bread: 'The Bagel Chef,' Max Stern, hand-rolls dough made with King Arthur flour, lets it ferment slowly overnight, then boils and bakes each batch fresh, chasing something owner Aaron Steingold calls the closest thing he's found in Chicago to a true New York bagel.

Hand-rolled, overnight-fermented bagels with house-cured Ora King salmon lox — Chicago Reader's runner-up Best Bagels 2025

The lox matches that ambition — Ora King salmon from New Zealand, house-cured for two days in toasted black peppercorn, coriander, sugar, and salt, piled a quarter-pound deep on each sandwich.

It's grown from a single North Center storefront into a small Chicago-only deli group (a Lakeview flagship next to the Music Box Theater, a weekend-only Humboldt Park bakehouse, and a spot inside Wrigleyville's Hotel Zachary), and it placed runner-up for Best Bagels in the Chicago Reader's 2025 Best of Chicago poll.

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Wed-Mon7:30am-2pm

closed Tue (sources conflict slightly

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