Wednesday, July 2, 2025

[EXCLUSIVE] Montreal Style Bagel Shop Planned For Buckhead Village

A new bagel shop is coming to Buckhead! Spread Bagelry is slated to open in a second generation restaurant space in Buckhead Village, according to planning documents reviewed by ToNeTo Atlanta.

The new bagel shop will open in the former Fire Hen at 47 Irby Avenue at its intersection with Cains Hill Place.  Locally owned Fire Hen debuted in what was then a new 2,830 square foot restaurant space in December 2020, but closed in early 2023 and has been vacant since.  

Spread Bagelry got its start in Philadelphia in 2010 crafting Montreal-style wood-fired bagels and today has grown into a chain of 16 locations across 4 states, including one in Savannah, which opened last January.  

The eatery specializes in bagel sandwiches be they with cream cheese or meats.  The shop will offered assorted cream cheese options including Plain, Scallion and Pistachio Honey as well as meats from New York's Carnegie Deli.  

For those unfamiliar, the Montreal-style bagel is a distinctive variety of wood-fired baked bagel.  In contrast to the New York-style bagel (like those at Goldberg's, Brooklyn Bagel, and Bagelicious), which also contain sourdough, the Montreal-style bagel is typically smaller, thinner, denser, and sweeter, given that it is boiled in honey-sweetened water before being baked.  The Montreal bagel also typically has a larger hole.

ToNeTo Atlanta readers may recall that Buckhead almost landed another Montreal-style bagel shop - The Good Wurst - which was to open at Tuxedo Festival near Chastain Park, but the plans fell through and MEND Coffee & Goods opened in the space last April.  

Are you familiar with Montreal-style bagels?  Have you been to Spread Bagelry?  What is your favorite bagel flavor? 

Please share your thoughts below. 

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love Montreal style bagels, and the last one I had was in Montreal. ha! I'm so excited this is opening and will have to make a special weekend trip to try it.

Anonymous said...

So excited! Yay!

Anonymous said...

I give this six months. The only people that go to buckhead anymore are criminals and liberals (guess the two have many things in common). Most of the restaurant dollars and customers are outside the perimeter. If this was opening in cumming or kennesaw I could see it being successful

Anonymous said...

I give you six months before you move with all your friends to south Florida

Anonymous said...

Bagels and Chookah!

Anonymous said...

I'm sure it'll be out of business within a few months. Sooner or later, the Trump tariffs and the Trump Depression and the Trump economy will kill off everything

Anonymous said...

There's too much crime in Buckhead to go there. The Trump apocalypse has made everyone desperate

Anonymous said...

Tell us you're ignorant without telling us you're ignorant. Lol. You're not doing yourself any favors here. SMDH.

Anonymous said...

Yes Forsyth county is known for their culinary scene! Stay up there and eat your zaxbys!

Anonymous said...

Some really acrid anonymous commemters. If you don't like Buckead, stay wherever you are. I don't share your thinking.

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