Bethesda Bagels is planning a new location in Potomac and aiming for a late summer opening, according to Danny Fleishman, the chain’s co-owner.
The shop will be at 7951-A Tuckerman Lane in the Cabin John Village shopping center. The center is also home to other eateries including Colada Shop, The Grove, Capo Italian Deli and Cava.
Fleishman told MoCo360 on Tuesday the family-owned business has been looking for other places to expand in Montgomery County. The chain operates shops on Bethesda Row, in Bethesda’s Wildwood shopping center and Rockville’s Fallsgrove Village Center.
“We have an extremely strong customer base in the Montgomery County area … and we just want to make it as convenient and easy for our customers to get to Bethesda Bagels whenever they want,” Fleishman said. “We’ve been looking at Cabin John Village for a while and that space next to CVS has been open and we decided to make it happen.”
The bagel shop announced the upcoming Cabin John location Friday on social media.
According to Fleishman, the 2,800-square-foot space is larger than the chain’s other locations and will have a handful of indoor seating options and outdoor seating.
The Cabin John shop also will offer a front-window view of workers hand-rolling bagels. According to Fleishman, the Fallsgrove shop has a similar window.
Fleishman owns and operates Bethesda Bagels along with his brothers Lee, Noah and Josh. The family’s first shop was opened in Bethesda by their father, Stephen Fleishman, in 1982. That shop is the oldest original tenant on Bethesda Row, according to the eatery’s website.
Since 2017 the bagel shop has expanded around the D.C. area, Fleishman said, and has opened the other two county locations plus shops in Rosslyn, Virginia, and the Navy Yard in the District. The Fallsgrove shop opening in 2022 was the most recent.
Fleishman said he and his brothers grew up in the Potomac area and saw a need for a “good breakfast spot” in the Cabin John Village shopping center.
Fleishman said Bethesda Bagels will fill that void and will “be there for years to come,” he said.
In the future, Bethesda Bagels will “revisit” opening more locations in the county but for now the business is focused on measured growth, Fleishman said.
“We like slow and steady growth to make sure that we don’t make any mistakes,” he said.
