We’re not just making buns with holes, we’re making proper bagels.

Better Bagels started from a simple problem:

Covid-related job loss (and a relentless case of the munchies)... 

leading to the stark realisation that we hadn't had a decent bagel in over a decade!

How anyone was surviving was beyond us.

So, naturally, Jesse started making them. And then things got a little out of hand.

What started as a craving became a bit of an obsession.

Getting a bagel right isn't ridiculously complicated, but it does require time... and doing things right.

He experimented. He tweaked. He made batch after batch after batch. He even developed his own technique using ambient temps.

Our dough is made from scratch, our bagels are hand-rolled, overnight proofed, boiled and then baked fresh.

That's right, every bagel is a TWO-DAY PROCESS!

No shortcuts. No preservatives. No pretending a bread roll is a bagel... (the audacity).

Just good ingredients, good technique and an absurd amount of time spent thinking about dough and temperatures.

Eventually, Jesse's kitchen experiments became Better Bagels.

And everyone seems pretty glad he did.

There is something special about a really good bagel.

It's breakfast when you're rushing out the door.

It's the reason you invite someone over for coffee.

It's Sunday morning with the newspaper.

It's a smoked salmon bagel after a swim.

It's a dozen bagels disappearing from the kitchen much faster than anyone planned.

And, occasionally, it's eating a jalapeno cheese bagel in the car before you've even made it home.

We don't think food needs to be fancy to be special. Sometimes, you just need really good ingredients and a little patience.

Better Bagels are made right here at Origins Market in Busso.

We bake in small batches and sell directly to our local community and stockists through our deliveries + online orders.

We're not trying to be the biggest bagel company in Australia.

We're much more interested in being your bagel people.

The ones you order from when visitors are coming.

The ones you hide in the freezer because you know you'll want another one tomorrow.

And the ones you tell your friends about because good bagels should be shared.

Better ingredients.

Better process.

Better texture.

Better flavour.

We believe a bagel should be worth getting excited about.

Welcome to Better Bagels.

Grab a dozen, you won't regret it.