The simit tastes pretty good, but is it actually a bagel? Above: the whole-wheat simit A neophyte chain called Simit + Smith has introduced a new sort of bagel to the Upper West Side. In Turkey, it’s ...

Here’s how to approach Simit + Smith’s “Turkish bagel”: Take a bite and call it what it really is — a simit, the sesame seed-studded round beloved anyplace the Ottoman Empire once ruled. Instead of a ...

It’s round, it’s doughy, but it’s not a bagel. That’s the New York verdict on the simit, a sesame seed crusted bread popular in Turkey that’s masquerading as a version of the city’s breakfast staple. ...

New Yorkers are fiercely proud of their bagels, with good reason, so when confronted with something that looks like the circular bread, an initial reaction might be skepticism. But we have nothing to ...

WASHINGTON — What popular breakfast bread is round in shape, golden brown in color and covered in sesame? It’s not a bagel; it’s the simit. And the traditional Turkish food is making its mark in D.C.

This is the Thursday, Aug. 21 edition of Food Crawl, the Star’s weekly food newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Simit The Big Bagel‘s toasted simit with cream cheese, $4, 1085 ...

Like Turkey itself, the simit -- the round, sesame-encrusted bread ring that is a ubiquitous presence on the streets of Istanbul and most other Turkish cities -- is entertaining some very global ...

In Eastern Mediterranean regions, Balkan countries and the Arab world there is a popular snack that looks like a large bagel and comes beaded with sesame seeds. It has various names, but in Turkey ...

A neophyte chain called Simit + Smith has introduced a new sort of bagel to the Upper West Side. In Turkey, it’s known as a simit, but there are a half-dozen other names for it in the Middle East, ...