San Rafael: House of Bagels (Hilary is gone) - the 14 oz knish

[rworange]

In some post, someone mentioned that Hilary's Kitchen and House of Bagels had been sold and was now owned by an Asian family.

I thought I'd stop by and see if there were any changes. I don't think so. The same menu board seemed to be on the wall and nothing looked different. Business was brisk.

I had a sesame bagel with spinach and garlic spread. The very spinach-green spread was good and had just the right garlic punch. The bagel was fine. I don't remember much about Hilary's bagels and I'm sure I'll soon forget about this one. It wasn't memorably bad or great. I think I prefer Marin Bagels.

Anyway, I had never seen such large knishes before so I bought a veggie knish home ... and weighed it ... 14 ozs. It was tasty, but I haven't ordered many knishes in my life. It was mainly potato that was more chopped than mashed. There were some onions and a piece of broccolli here and there. The wrapper was very thin and in a way made me think of a dumpling wrapper if it were baked. For $3.50 it is a substantial nosh.

They also have plain potato, brisket and corn beef knishes. They come with a little cup of mustard and a half-sour spear. Actually the pickle was better than I remembered, but I think that is because they now use Bubbies.

Having never had Hilary's knish, I don't know if this is any different.

They had a few challah for sale and some corn rye. It looked like the exact same rye that Hilary had. I didn't like it in the past because it was on the dry side.

There are still rugelach, hamentashen and black & white cookies. Latkes are still on the menu.

Ther are about 20 types of bagels with various toppings... smears, lox spread, white fish, chopped liver, hummus, jam, peanut butter. Various egg-on-bagel breakfast sandwiches are available.

There are a number of breakfast dishes that include omelettes, pancakes, French toasst and burritos.

There are also sandwiches. While there is kosher salami, they also have ham and a BLT.

Coffee is by Marin Brewing. They had some sort of packaged snack in the cooler ... Australian something ... but couldn't read the package.

Here are the hours until the Place record can be updated

Mon-Fri 6 am - 3 pm
Sat-Sun 7 am - 2 pm

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Hilarys Kitchen & House-Bagels
640 4th St, San Rafael, CA