Avid baker and surfer Noah Orloff is making waves with his fresh take on bagels. For the owner of the new Bones Bagels in Noe Valley, it just made sense to meld two of his favorite things to bake—sourdough bread and bagel—into one uniquely delicious creation.

“I messed around with bagels here and there and realized that out of all the stuff I made, they were my favorite thing to eat,” he told me during a recent visit to his bakery. “There’s a lot of good sourdough bread around, but this was just something I made that tasted kind of different than most bagels.”

Orloff’s sourdough bagels do taste different—in a most excellent way. On a visit to the shop my everything bagel, with its generous smear of chive cream cheese, had a pleasing tang that complemented the perfectly chewy interior tha

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