A taste of Brooklyn comes to Riverhead at its newest bagel store, The Gourmet Bagel Co., which has opened on Old Country Road.

Co-owners (and cousins) Joe Aceto and John Felleti are using the same bagel recipe from their first shop in Brooklyn Heights, which opened in 1994. The two have owned several bagel stores in the past, but currently operate one other location, The Gourmet Bagel Co. on Lakeland Avenue in Bohemia.

"We do our bagels the old-fashioned way," Aceto said. "We boil them, bake them; we don’t use the rack oven, so it takes a little [longer], costs us a little more, but it’s worth it."

Bagels run from standard (plain, onion, egg everything bagels) to specialty (Asiago, French toast, rainbow) for $1.55-$1.99 each or $18.50 by the dozen. Cream cheese spreads hit all the expec

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