Bagels aren’t just for breakfast at this growing family-owned business in Brunswick County

Jesse Driscoll stated he remembers when Uncle Carmine (or Carmine Barbaro to the relaxation of us) opened the Bagel Dock Café in Calabash far more than a ten years back and then the Bagel Dock Categorical at 4501 N. Key St. in Shallotte in 2016.

Barbaro and other proprietors have considering the fact that made a decision to sell individuals businesses, but Driscoll identified the option and acquired the Categorical area in April 2021 with wife Nazira.

Now, a minimal far more than a calendar year afterwards, they’ve a short while ago added a second site at 5021 Southport Crossing Way in Southport near Lowes Meals. He also said they are about six months absent from a further area.

“My wife and I say that we can halt at 50,” he joked.

But he is significant about the Bagel Dock Express enlargement to Leland, Wilmington and other coastal communities.

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“We imagine it’s a potent principle and it’s the variety of detail that would perform in a ton of seashore communities,” he mentioned.

At just about every restaurant, bagels are manufactured fresh new every day. A menu with breakfast sandwiches and wraps and a wide range of specialty lunch sandwiches are also common. The Rooster Cutlet Traditional, for case in point, is produced with fried-to-purchase rooster, melted mozzarella cheese, bacon, lettuce and tomato.

But for those people new to Bagel Dock Express, Driscoll suggests beginning easy – with a bagel toasted with butter.

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“Then you can actually see how great the bagels are,” he claimed.

After that, get a bagel topped with steak and cheese, for example. Or the most well known choice for Northern transplants, a bagel with Taylor Ham pork roll.

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Allison Ballard is the food and dining reporter at the StarNews. You can reach her at [email protected].

This report at first appeared on Wilmington StarNews: Bagel Dock Express: locale in Southport Crossing Way in Southport