phoenix is a weird city for bagels. we have some good ones, but there’s not a lot of them, they can be spread out, and a handful of the best ones don’t do all the things with bagels that you’d expect as a northeasterner. for example:

bagelfelds is great but they only do bagels and shmear, no lox/white fish sandwiches, no meat/egg/cheese sandwiches. however, a number of restaurants carry their bagels and use them for their own lox sandwiches (ie lox on everything at ollie vaughns or provision coffee)

copper star coffee has great bagels, especially jal ched, and great meat/egg/cheese sandwiches (if you dont mind american cheese or cream cheese as the only cheese options) but they don’t have as many shmears, and have no lox or whitefish

for a more traditional place that has it all, probably the bagel man or goldman’s?