Bold flavors and local reinventions were at the forefront of Sunday’s inaugural BagelFest West, where bagel makers from California, as well as Seattle and Colorado Springs, offered their best bagels plus unconventional takes on the bagel sandwich — from a Passover-style gefilte fish Hillel sandwich with beet horseradish and charoset served by San Diego’s Mission Bagel to a coffee bomb bagel by Tom and Tiffany Levy’s Uncle Stevey’s in El Segundo. “The bites that we’ve seen here today are some of the most innovative and groundbreaking bagel bites that I’ve ever had,” said Sam Silverman, who founded the original New York BagelFest in 2019 and goes by the social media handle Bagel Ambassador. Silverman has watched the bagel scene west of the Rockies explode, prompting him to bring BagelFest to Los Angeles. It was a sold-out event, with more than 1,000 bagel aficionados from all of California gathered at Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Audrey Irmas Pavilion. Share via Close extra sharing options More than 1,000 bagel lovers at the sold-out BagelFest West in Los Angeles sampled …