Bagels in the Windy City

Gotham Bagels has arrived in Chicago!

Madison, Wisconsin’s favorite family-owned bagel shop is now available for delivery and carryout orders in downtown Chicago. Gotham has been serving handmade New York style bagels for more than twenty years. We make our bagels the traditional way – mixing the highest quality ingredients in house, rolling by hand, kettle-boiling, and baking in a rotating deck oven.

Local restauranteur Jordan Himmel went to college in Madison and worked with Gotham Bagels founder Joe Gaglio to bring this unique bagel recipe to his hometown.

Many folks claim that you need New York water to make a proper New York bagel, but we don’t buy it. Turns out, the most important factor in making a New York bagel is the New Yorker making it! Gaglio moved to Madison in 1999 for a culinary teaching assignment, but soon realized that the Midwest was sorely lacking in quality bagels. Thus, Gotham Bagels was born, and it soon became a local institution. “Almost every day a person will approach me at our store and thank us for being there, for caring about how we produce our bagel.” Says Gaglio, “Some will complain about our attitude, but never about our bagel. What do they expect? This is, after all, a New York bagel shop.”

We are so excited to be offering bagels in Chicago! We are also very excited to begin to look for potential media partnerships as we expand our brand into Chicago!

Our menu is available on a first-come-first-serve basis, so place your order before we run out! We offer delivery and carryout every day of the week via our new website!

For additional information, visit www.gothambagels.com or follow on Instagram @gothambagels.