Atlanta Magazine
A Spiller Park bagel shop is in the works
Dear Friend, Bagels is planned to open early next year
Courtesy of Rachel McCart
Spiller Park Coffee has quietly started selling bagels on Fridays and Sundays. As it turns out, this is not just an attempt at a new menu item, but a taste test for a bagel shop and delicatessen called Dear Friend, Bagels. Spiller Park owner and operator Dale Donchey makes all the bagels himself, and plans to open Dear Friend early next year as a way to explore his Jewish heritage through food.
“I’m an explorer who wants to feed people. There needs to be a Southern Jewish voice to the food that’s created here,” he says. “New York and Montreal shouldn’t be the only two voices represented.”