Perry's, formerly Dennis Hot Bagels.

For years, this corner of Route 17 South was Dennis Hot Bagels. Then we moved a few blocks up the road, took on a new name, and kept everything that mattered: bagels boiled in water and baked on the same counter you're standing at. Hot, all day long.

We open at four-thirty in the morning Monday through Saturday because that's when the contractors, the commuters, the night-shift folks heading home, and the early-rising regulars need a bagel. We close at four in the afternoon. Sunday is five to two.

Everything's made on-site. The Taylor Ham and egg on an everything bagel is the one Bergen County has been ordering for thirty years. The Bobo, bacon and egg and cheese with a hash brown folded right in, is the one regulars order without looking at the board. Both still feel like a small win every single morning.