Meshuggah Bagels

Meshuggah Bagels is Pete and Janna Linde’s kosher New York-style bagel shop in Kansas City — open since 2016 at 1208 W 39th St in Midtown. Fourteen bagel varieties, fourteen schmear varieties, all certified kosher by Vaad HaKashruth. KC’s answer to the New York water bagel.

Description

Meshuggah Bagels is Kansas City’s home for New York-style water bagels — certified kosher, hand-rolled, and boiled before baking in the traditional method.¹ Pete Linde grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey with family roots in immigrant Jewish baking; Janna Linde is from Independence, Missouri. Together they launched a wholesale bagel operation in November 2015 and opened their first retail location on West 39th Street in March 2016. The shop has since expanded to Power & Light, Overland Park, and Liberty. Fourteen bagel varieties run from plain and everything to serrano jalapeño and bialy; fourteen schmear varieties cover the spread from plain cream cheese to lox. Sandwiches include pastrami nova salmon, smoked nova salmon, and whitefish salad. All certified kosher by the Vaad HaKashruth of Greater Kansas City.

Menu

Last verified: 2026-08-12 · Source: Meshuggah Bagels official site (store menu) · URL(s): https://www.meshuggahbagels.com/store-menu · Confidence: High (itemized from the brand’s own menu page)

New York-style kosher water bagels — hand-rolled and boiled before baking — sold by the single, half-dozen, and dozen, with a wide schmear list and a small smoked-fish sandwich program.²

Description ceiling, re-verified 2026-08-13. The store-menu page was re-scraped and compared line by line against this transcription: it matches in full, including every price. Meshuggah publishes description copy for exactly two things — the salmon-schmear build (“plain cream cheese with pieces of smoked Nova salmon”) and the “capers, onions, & tomatoes available” note on the smoked-fish sandwiches — and both are already captured below. The bare entries are bagel and schmear flavour names, which the operator lists as plain flavour lists and which correctly carry no description. Nothing here has been inferred from a flavour name.

Bagels

• Plain ($2.75 single / $12.25 half-dozen / $17.50 dozen)²
• Everything²
• Poppy Seed²
• Sesame Seed²
• Onion²
• Garlic²
• Serrano Jalapeño²
• Salt²
• Rye²
• Bialy²
• Whole Wheat²
• Cinnamon Raisin²
• Chocolate Chip²

Schmears

• Plain — bagel with plain schmear ($5.50); carry-out tub 6oz/8oz ($6.50/$8.25)²
• Vegan Plain²
• Garlic & Herb — specialty schmear; bagel with specialty schmear ($6.50); carry-out tub 6oz/8oz ($8.75/$10.50)²
• Rosemary Garlic²
• Garlic Dill²
• Toasted Everything²
• Veggie²
• Scallion²
• Jalapeño²
• Dirty Martini²
• Cinnamon Sugar²
• OREO Cheesecake²
• Strawberry²
• Blueberry²

Bagel sandwiches

• Bagel with Salmon Schmear — plain cream cheese with pieces of smoked Nova salmon — $8.75²
• Bagel with Whitefish Salad — $10.50²
• Bagel with Smoked Nova Salmon — capers, onions, and tomatoes available — $11.95²
• Bagel with Salty Lox — capers, onions, and tomatoes available — $12.95²
• Bagel with Pastrami Nova Salmon — capers, onions, and tomatoes available — $13.95²

Carry-out

Schmears: 6 oz plain $6.50 · 8 oz plain $8.25 · 6 oz specialty $8.75 · 8 oz specialty $10.50.²

• Smoked Nova — 3 oz — $13.25²
• Whitefish Salad — 6 oz $13.25 / 8 oz $16.50²
• Salty Lox — 3 oz — $14.25²
• Salmon Cream Cheese — 6 oz $9.75 / 8 oz $12.75²
• Pastrami Nova — 3 oz — $15.25²

Sources

Footnotes

1. Kansas City Jewish Chronicle — “Meshuggah goes crazy for authentic New York-style bagels” — confirms kosher certification, Jewish heritage context, KC Jewish community reception. Also: Times of Israel — “Authentic NY bagels have finally arrived in Kansas City” — timesofisrael.com — international coverage of Meshuggah’s KC opening. ↩

2. Meshuggah Bagels — official store menu (accessed 2026-08-12, rendered via Firecrawl). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³² ↩³³ ↩³⁴ ↩³⁵ ↩³⁶ ↩³⁷ ↩³⁸ ↩³⁹