Tompkins Square Bagels
Dining · 5+ locations · East Village, Union Square, Upper East Side, Midtown
Tompkins Square Bagels brought hand-rolling back to the East Village. Five stores, and founder Christopher Pugliese still holds majority ownership of every one.
The Big Picture
Tompkins Square Bagels is founder Christopher Pugliese's fifteen-year project to revive traditional hand-rolled bagels, grown to five Manhattan stores with small private investors and his majority ownership of each. Everything — bagels, cream cheeses, spreads — is made on premises daily, though at five stores there's no formal labor or environmental record published to check against. The company answers to the baker who founded it.
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