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We'll talk about a variety of choices for the best of New Jersey. This morning news. 12, New Jersey's Tony Caputo photojournalist, Rudy Boder and brick at a place Tony that is more than just bagels. I'm loving this. This is fantastic and this menu is fantastic as well. Ramona Rickard is here. This is Man of bagels Cafe here in Brick in Ocean County. And you know, I saw those bagels. Let's go do bagels. I love bagels. I can eat bagels all day long. But looking at your menu, it is so much more than all of these delicious bagels. Tell me about that. Absolutely. So we've brought in some of our fairs. We're Latino from the Dominican. My husband is in Costa Rica. So we have a delicious tico breakfast that comes with black rice and beans, breakfast, meat, your egg styles way you like it. And then we also have for lunch. We have a beautiful panini. I mean, we, we have people from Miami, look at our menu and say I just wanna try your Cuban and we're like, please do. They give us the feedback because that's what counts like we wanna make sure that we get the feedback that we're making really authentic food and we have different things such as uh smoothies. Yeah. Is making up the bagels this morning. Right. He's out here every day, he's here every day, making fresh bagels daily and making New York style. We have the kettle. Would you put it in the kettle and boiled it and then go straight into the oven, which is New York style. That is great. Hey, give me that camera for a second. I just want to do something real quick. A little different, right? Give me this camera. Let me hold this. The reason I'm doing this. Yeah. There you go. These two, these two hit it right off. I mean, right off the bat. Dominican. They both have that Dominican background and right away they started talking to the, they are in the house. Fantastic. I love it. Bringing back our Dominican um culture and our Clair, right? Thank you. Let me show off everything here. Just bear with me. I'm doing the camera. There's the bagels. Yeah, they, they, they're gonna cook those up and here's the whole clan over here. Everybody's hanging out. Ready to go. All right. Fantastic. It is a great place. Hey, Rudy, you want to take this back and I'll finish up this shot. There you go. Let me give it back to Rudy. Hang in there with us folks. It's 5 40 in the morning. You can handle it. We're getting you going on your Tuesday. It's the best of New Jersey, man of Bagels cafe, good stuff, Ramona. We'll start showing off that food. I'm going to eat it as well. That's coming up.

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We'll talk about a variety of choices for the best of New Jersey this morning news. 12, New Jersey's Tony Caputo photojournalist, Rudy Bo are in Brick. Tony. You're at Man bagels, but it's not just about bagels. No, no, it's so much more than bagels. Man of bagels Cafe here in Brick. I mean, fantastic, beautiful location as well. You got your regulars coming in, grabbing a cup of coffee, having a little chat before they begin their Tuesday morning. We'd love to see that we have Ramona Ricard who we met last time last hour and her husband Juan Santa Maria is here as well. And I mean, you were telling me, Ramona about this special breakfast you have going on here because that's what makes this place unique. It's a little different. You bring your backgrounds here and you have the plates to show that. Tell us about these plates here. Absolutely. So as I mentioned before, this is our Cuban panini, which is Ham cheese pickle, um mustard. It's a really traditional Cuban, but it has a great flair that we put on our pork that we cook here daily. I have bad news for that. Because it's gonna be gone real soon. Like I'm gonna sit down and devour that thing. That looks fantastic. Now, tell us about the, this is the pika breakfast, Tico breakfast is a meal is a breakfast. And uh Costa Rica you normally for in the mornings you get the rice and beans, you get the avocado cheese, the eggs and the fried, fried plantains. So it's, it's a tradition that's been going on for years and anybody who has visited Costa Rica will know that it's a breakfast called. And again, you can have a bagel joint anywhere. I mean, but they're mixing it up with the different styles of dishes they have here for breakfast and for lunch again. It's me man. Bagels Cafe. Fantastic. I'm having trouble talking. I've been flustered ever since you guys don't see the behind the scenes stuff Sima has been killing me. The text is our morning anchor about the way I say Bagels. Do I say Bagels the wrong way? No, I think. Yeah, I think I like you a little better than Simon this morning. We'll send it back to Simon and Nick as we do the best of new chair here in Brick Man of Bagels Cafe, you said right now. But in your last hit when you're saying casually, you say bagel, then I guess I have to give you credit. Yes, you do. Thank you very much, Tony and your Biggles. You need to work that out. The two of you. He does say with the Billy Ason Biggles.

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We'll talk about a variety of choices when it comes to the best of New Jersey. This morning news. 12, New Jersey's Tony Caputo and photojournalist. Rudy bro are in brick showing off bagels, Tony but not just bagels. Although they're pretty good too. I'll tell you what. I had a panini Cuban panini earlier. You saw it and I ate it fantastic. We got a French toast bagel here. Now, one of the regulars upstairs says you got to show this off. Look at that. Looks fantastic. Right? French toast bagel. Mixing it up. Let's go back here to Ramona Ricard. Her and her husband Juan own man bagels cafe here in brick. This coffee fantastic. This is from your husband's family farm in Costa Rica. That's right. Yes. My husband grew up in a farm in Costa Rica and their family carves the coffee beans right from the farm is very high altitude, great quality coffee. It's a personal brand. You cannot find this anywhere else but Mangos and I'm going to enjoy that for quite some time because it was delicious. Rudy. Come on in here. So I'm getting the work done back here. Juan Santa Maria. Is married to Ramona. 10 years together. Married, the business is going great. It's a great combination. No doubt about that. What are you doing here? You got a little, the dough, getting ready for it. This is the magic touch. How was your magic powder? You see how it works? We get up here every, um, he comes here, he does, he comes here at three o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning, start prepping. Everything is one of us. He's one of us upright and early. Yes, get everything going and, uh, setting up for the uh, bagel to open up at 6 a.m. in the morning, every day. You're open it every day at six and we close at three, something's working. You know, this is going pretty well for you guys. You're doing something right around here. Absolutely. Thank you. Yes, we, we are very proud and happy of the way it's going right now. We make our bagels, uh, the old style like we bake them here. We make them here, refrigerated the bagels for a little bit, let them grow. And then once we get him to raise up a little bit, then we start the process of cooking them. We put them in the water, boil them and bake them and people are enjoying them. No doubt about that. Not a bagels cafe here in brick. You know what's funny about this? Come on back in here. We'll leave on this shot. People can watch this all day long. It's just like, it's almost therapeutic watching that dough in there. That is fantastic. It's the best of New Jersey. We'll send it back to you guys.

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Time for Best of New Jersey. We head back to Brick this morning and news 12 New Jersey's Tony Caputo showing off man of bagels. A place Tony. That is more than just bagels, but variety on the menu as well. BLS Cafe. You're right. The variety is fantastic. I had a Cuban Panetti earlier. It was great. I mean, look at this, Fred. Are you kidding me? It's like the grand finale when we do this last shot each and every Tuesday. Juan is here along with his wife Ramona. The family is here as well. Juan, tell us about the lunch you got going on here. You got a variety of lunches. 0.1 out real quick. Yes, we have the salad right there. It's a house salad for nice, healthy, healthy people. That's something I would skip myself. Ramona. You got the breakfast going over here and it is fantastic. I'm seeing pancakes and everything else. What do you got there? French toast. We have the avocado toast if you're more on the healthy conscious side of it. Um, we have a, um, rainbow bumper nickel bagel, a bagel cheddar bagel. We have actually, if you want to continue on the lunch menu. We have some wings, mozzarella stick. That's the kid's favorite. And we have the original, which is a breakfast platter. It brings your eggs, any style. We have breakfast meat. We have either home fries or hash brown. You definitely don't want to miss the original. It is the most popular one here. Don't forget the coffee they get from Costa Rica real quick. Hey, Rudy Bod. Look who we have here. Lauren do even likes this place so much. Stopped in to say hello. Oh, I thought the best of New Jersey was in town on my day off. I'm like, I got to get the best bagel and coffee, the best of New Jersey coming to visit us as well. On the best of New Jersey, you can't beat it. Hey, I'm about that guys. I surprised you didn't. So, you know, we were just saying how much we miss Lauren on her day off. So that's perfect. We were saying that that's fun to see.

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News 12 New Jersey’s Tony Caputo and photojournalist Rudy Bode made their way to Manna Bagels in Brick Township Tuesday for this week’s Best of New Jersey. 

Best of New Jersey: Taking a bite at Manna Bagels Café in Brick Township

News 12 New Jersey’s Tony Caputo and photojournalist Rudy Bode made their way to Manna Bagels in Brick Township Tuesday for this week’s Best of New Jersey.

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