A beloved East Coast bagel chain plans to go west with two Denver locations

A bagel chain beloved in Washington, D.C., and Maryland plans to develop from its East Coast roots, with two outposts set for the Mile Excessive Metropolis.

Name Your Mom Deli, a bagel store and deli, will open the shops early subsequent yr at 1291 N. Pearl St. in Capitol Hill and 3870 Tennyson St. round Berkeley, D.C.-area journal Washingtonian first reported.

House owners Daniela Moreira and Andrew Dana at present run seven shops — 5 within the nation’s capital and two in neighboring Maryland, with the primary opened in 2018 in D.C.’s Park View neighborhood.

Whereas touring completely different locations throughout the nation, “not one of the cities actually felt proper till we toured Denver,” Dana stated in a phone interview. “Denver simply kind of immediately felt like a second dwelling.”

He stated he appreciates the Mile Excessive Metropolis’s neighborhoods specifically.

“Selfishly, after I’m simply eager about, like, what’s a metropolis I wish to spend a ton of time in whereas I’m working, Denver simply made a lot sense. So we went for it,” he added.

Name Your Mom is dubbed a “Jew-ish” deli. Each Dana and former investor Jeff Zients are Jewish.

The chain, which is wildly widespread in D.C., earned a nationwide spot on Eater’s checklist of “The 16 Greatest New Eating places in America” in 2019. It’ll increase the Mile Excessive Metropolis’s bagel sport, by which Moe’s Broadway Bagels, Rosenberg’s Bagels and Leroy’s Bagels are all gamers.

“We would like it to be enjoyable and vibrant and filled with power,” Dana stated about his forthcoming Denver places. “Hopefully, it’s a giant ol’ social gathering.”

The menu contains bagel sandwiches, lunch sandwiches on challah or rye, espresso, latkes and “schweets.” Bagel choices vary from za’atar to corn-jalapeno cheddar to blueberry muffin.

The group behind Name Your Mom is tied to a number of sister eating places in Washington, D.C., and Virginia: Timber Pizza, Turu’s Pizza, Mercy Me and Ballston Service Station.

“We simply all the time love an excellent problem,” Dana stated. “The second we get comparatively comfy, we wish to do one thing to shock the system that’s onerous.”