Downtown Dallas is due to get some authentic, artisanal bagels: Starship Bagel, an old-school bagel shop that serves New York-style bagels, specialty shmears, lox, and coffee, will open a shop at 1520 Elm St., along Stone Street Gardens, with a front-row view of The Eye sculpture.
Owner-founder Oren Salomon says he's hoping to be open and rolling out bagels in early 2023.
Salomon debuted Starship in 2021, when he opened the first location in Lewisville, doing New York-style bagels made in small batches with the most premium ingredients, in classic varieties such as Plain, Sesame, Poppyseed, Everything, Garlic, Salt, and Zaatar.
Starship features lox from Brooklyn-based Acme Smoked Fish Corp and a quartet of cream cheese shmears: plain, garden veggie, lox, and fermented jalapeno.
A perfect plain bagel by Starship Bagel.Paul Arturo Torres
With the exception of their egg bagel, all bagels are vegan, and they make their own vegan shmears, which have developed a big following at the Lewisville original. Their coffee is from Onyx Coffee Lab, a top-rated roaster based in Arkansas.
Salomon is a young entrepreneur with a true passion for making great bagels who developed his authentic recipe in which the dough is made from scratch, boiled, and baked fresh daily.
Since opening, Starship has not only been selling bagels from the shop, but also has an extensive delivery program in which freshly made bagels are delivered to 15 cafes across Dallas-Fort Worth including Merit Coffee, Fiction Coffee, Lemma Coffee, and Staycation in Richardson.
Even better, they do home deliveries, as in delivery to your front door, on Saturdays and Sundays (which you can order here, assuming you're in the delivery zone).
"One of the good things about bagels is that they're very portable," Salomon says. "A fresh bagel can last at least 6-8 hours."
The downtown Dallas shop is going into the old Cafe Strada space, primarily a walk-up counter with outdoor seating spread across the patio. Salomon says that Downtown Dallas Inc. helped facilitate the deal and provided tables and chairs as part of their ongoing commitment to improving downtown public spaces.
It'll feature the same menu as Lewisville, with bagels and a few sandwiches such as lox & cream cheese, or cucumber with tomato, sprouts, red onion, and avocado.
"We don't do crazy sandwich concoctions — our menu is designed around getting you to taste the bagels," he says.
"Bagels demand a high foot-traffic walk-up culture, and downtown Dallas is the best neighborhood in DFW to match the tone of bagels," he says. "I also like the idea of tempting New Yorkers staying at the Joule who might not be able to resist my New York-style bagels."
