"My dad never wanted me or my brother in the business."
For a New York-style bagel shop whose website cheekily proclaims, “no bearded hipster baristas here,” the locals-only vibes are stronger than the coffee at Mitch’s Downtown Bagel Café in Fort Lauderdale.
For one, the centerpiece of Mitch’s 2,000-square-foot deli is pure Instagram bait: a cursive neon slogan, emblazoned across a faux-grass wall: “Bagels Don’t Count As Carbs.” (A trendy mural covering another wall is in the works.) The shop, set to debut in October, even sits on the ground floor of the 385-apartment Motif Flagler Village mid-rise, across the street from FAT Village’s funky warehouses.
Then there is co-owner Adam Shidlofsky, who says the fast-casual deli represents a “millenialized” offshoot of Mitch’s Westside Bagels in Weston, his father’s namesake shop.
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