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📍 Burbank, CA

We are Bagel Boss’ first franchise on the West Coast. After our first year open, we won Best Bagels in Burbank through myBurbank. Being born and raised on Long Island, bringing authentic New York bagels to my new home in Los Angeles was a dream come true.

📍 Colorado Springs, CO

Bella’s Bagels is a gold medal winner of BEST BAGEL for BestOfTheSprings & named by Yelp in 2025 as a Top 20 Best Local Food Business in the nation. These bagels are truly baked for boosting happiness.

📍 Los Angeles, CA

Belle’s was started in 2012 by two dudes that were born and bread (ha get it) in LA. From our home kitchen to panaderia pop-ups to a food service window out of a night club, our goal has always been pretty simple. Make good food using ingredients from the city that raised us for the city that raised us.

📍 Bay Area & Los Angeles, CA

Born and raised in central New Jersey, Emily grew up eating a LOT of bagels. In 2010, she moved to the Bay Area and bemoaned the lack of proper bagels. And so she embarked on what became her five-year quest, through trial and error, to create a bagel she longed to eat. It's been nonstop bagels ever since!

📍 Costa Mesa, CA

Located in the heart of Costa Mesa, Boil & Bake is taking on traditional deli and East Coast atmosphere with local and seasonal produce in mind. Carlos grew up in the bagel business, working at his parents’ restaurant since High School. Luke has cooked at some of the best restaurants in Socal. With his love for curing and experience in fine dining, he helped develop Boil & Bake’s concept.

📍Los Angeles, CA

Calic Bagel set out to define “LA-style” bagels through its signature take on a soft yet chewy bagel stuffed with garlic cream cheese. Using Asian-influenced baking techniques and finishing each bagel with its signature butter dip, Calic delivers a uniquely fluffy texture and rich, indulgent flavor.

📍Los Angeles, CA

Daniel’s Bagels is a neighborhood bagel shop in West Los Angeles/Palms where it’s all about the bagels! A great bagel experience means the bagel itself deserves the spotlight. We roll our fresh bagels throughout the day, ensuring customers receive the freshest possible bagels.

📍Los Angeles, CA

Hank’s Bagels is a bagel bakery and sandwich shop founded in 2019 by husband-and-wife duo Trevor and Kelley Faris. We specialize in handmade sourdough bagels, thoughtfully built sandwiches, and a few salady things—keeping the menu tight and focused on what we do best.

📍Seattle, WA

Hey Bagel is the place to get hot, fresh, crackly, bagels from the founder of Rubinstein Bagels Never toasted. Never sandwiched. Just hot bagels and bialys all day in the heart of Seattle’s University Village. Named as one of Seattle's Best New Restaurants of 2025 by The Infatuation, Hey Bagel is making waves in the Seattle bagel scene.

📍Carlsbad, CA

Inspired by classic New York bagel bakeries and delicatessens, we craft an authentic experience rooted in tradition and quality. Our menu features over a dozen bagel flavors, house-made schmears, stacked bagel sandwiches, and specialty favorites — all built around authentic New York–style techniques and flavors.

📍San Diego, CA

Mission Bagel is a San Diego–based bagel shop built on a simple idea: do the basics exceptionally well. We focus on hand-rolled, kettle-boiled bagels made with care, consistency, and respect for tradition. Founded by Gabe Rubin and family, what began as a small pop-up has grown into a beloved neighborhood bagel shop known for its vibrant community and strong Jewish identity.

📍Encinitas, CA

New Wave Bagel is an artisan sourdough bagel shop in Encinitas founded by Matt Cardwell and Cheryl Storms, alumni of Wayfarer Bread in La Jolla. After years of working in one of Southern California’s most respected bread programs, they set out to build a neighborhood shop rooted in natural fermentation, thoughtful sourcing, and classic technique.

📍Los Angeles, CA

Original Sunshine is redefining gluten-free. We craft authentic New York–style bagels using a refined process that removes gluten proteins while preserving everything people actually love about bread: taste, texture, structure, and satisfaction.

📍Irvine, CA

Rise Bagels is a chef-driven concept offering a lighter, crispier bagel style with the perfect chew, topped and sandwiched with seasonal farmers’ market ingredients and globally-inspired flavors. Led by a chef with a fine-dining background (Providence, Water Grill, Ritz Carlton) and entrepreneurial experience in other noteworthy food ventures in Orange County.

📍El Segundo, CA

At Uncle Stevey’s Bagels, we pride ourselves on crafting our version of the East Coast-style bagel, taking what we think are the best characteristics of the various East Coast bagels from New York to Maine. Our bagels boast that quintessential crunchy exterior and chewy interior and those irresistible flavors that bagel enthusiasts crave.

📍Brooklyn, NY

Through four generations of family ownership, over countless bagels, appetizing platters, and boroughs, some things hold true. We’ve been singularly focused on producing great smoked fish. And as the friendly fish experts, we pride ourselves on doing it the best.

📍Long Beach, CA

Monty’s, is a plant-based brand dedicated to creating delicious, clean and craveable plant-based products, starting with cream cheese and butter. Our products are made with just a few simple ingredients and utilize fermentation for flavor.

📍Los Angeles, CA

The story of GT’s does not begin with a business plan; it starts with a young man on a mission. Witnessing its incredible effects firsthand, a teenage GT Dave realized his purpose to share the gift of Kombucha in its purest, most potent form to help people everywhere live healthier, happier lives.

📍Gardena, CA

Real Soda is perhaps unquestionably the most substantial purveyor of glass-bottled soft drinks in the USA. It had its origins with a bottle cap collection, a dream, and a desire and drive of immense proportions which all synergized to create the magic which is REAL SODA IN REAL BOTTLES.