Wedge Is Dead, hello Blumm Family Bagels! (728 Franklin)

joshb · February 2015

Walked by today. Gates down. Sign outside: Blumm Family Bagels coming next week. Bagels! Quick Google search makes it sounds like it'll be the same owners.

whynot_31 · February 2015

Yes, Blumm is the last name of Mike DeZayas's wife. The couple ran Wedge.

Readers, we are talking about 728 Franklin, Crown Heights. Until very recently it was a cheese store, located next to Little Zelda ....which is named after their daughter.

https://www.facebook.com/wedgeonfranklin

eastbloc · February 2015

Bummer. Wedge was a quasi-reliable place to get fresh bakery bread -- a niche that has yet to be adequately filled on the avenue.

laura palmer · February 2015

Cafe Rue Dix has great bread for sale

Davina · February 2015

Aw. I liked wedge for my twice a year cheese-parties.

Will most likely use a bagel shop more often than twice a year.

eastbloc · February 2015

Thanks for the tip, Laura! I will definitely check that out.

As a cheese store, Wedge never impressed me much. The selection was not very broad, and the prices were higher than Union Market or even Brooklyn Larder.

I also feel like the price cards at a cheese shop being in quarter pounds somehow insults the intelligence of the consumer.

joshb · February 2015

FYI: Covenhoven has started selling cheese, charcuterie and bread, to stay or to go.

whynot_31 · February 2015

Now open

eastbloc · February 2015

Bread, wonderful. I'll be by shortly.

whatchuwant · February 2015

Got an everything bagel this morning- nothing on it, just cause.

Good bagel- crispy on outside, chewy inside. $2

Is it me or does that seem pricey for a bagel?

eastbloc · February 2015

Does the menu list the price as $0.50 for a quarter of a bagel?

howncreights · February 2015

They get them from Olde Brooklyn Bagels on Vanderbilt. Then charge double.

eastbloc · February 2015

The game is the game.

whynot_31 · February 2015

A bagel place on this nearby corner would kick their butt: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/38353/struggling-bodega-corner-of-franklin-and-park-pl-is-again-for-lease-what-should-replace-it/p1

Davina · February 2015

$2 bagels?

theburgerking · February 2015

Yes a real bagel place one that makes the bagels on site like Ye Olde or Bergen would do gang busters on Franklin. Maybe in Climax? This reincarnation of Wedge is probably the first of many they will try until something works and compliments Zeldas.

clayfilms · February 2015

$2 bagels?

not MY $2. smh.

goldemi1 · February 2015

$2 for the pleasure of not even being able to have a place to sit. Pass. I miss the previous bagel place that shut down.

eastbloc · February 2015

The bread at this place is a winner, though it would be nice if there were more of it.

The old bagel place off Franklin was terrible. You were better off with a bagel from Compare.

whynot_31 · February 2015

Allegria was certainly far below the standards of a real bagel place.

http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/37981/cafe-allegria-closed-bagels-for-st-marks-near-franklin-june-2013/p1

I think Blumm Family Bagels is catering to the roughly the demographic as Little Zelda:

...I think a large portion of their customer base can be described as "single young women who can quote Proust".

goldemi1 · February 2015

Allegria satisfied many folks as their yelp reviews seem to indicate. Plus they were friendly, spacious, and a nice outdoor space. Good luck to Blumm.

whynot_31 · February 2015

Allegria was a nice cafe, but did not offer the variety and selection of a real bagel place. Cafe Forte seems to have filled part of Allegria's market, but is also not a true bagel place.

...Cafe Forte has an almost perfect space for a bagelwich, but decided to go a slightly different direction.

I think Mike D and Blumm have a good strategy for their very small space. It compliments Little Zelda, and I believe its demographic will support it.

...but I'll probably continue to be seen at Bergen Bagel or Lula. I like bagelwiches and choosing among lots of different kinds of cream cheese. Blumm just doesn't have the space.

mr. met · February 2015

...how much should a bagel cost?

whynot_31 · February 2015

big and fluffy: $1.00
http://eat24hrs.com/restaurants/order2/menu.php?id=35286

I actually prefer small and chewy. Bagel Hole and Bunch O Bagels makes them.

crownheightster · February 2015

I think a bagel should cost around a dollar, up to $1.25. I don't think a bagel with butter should cost more than $1.75 and with cream cheese, maybe $2-2.25?

whynot_31 · February 2015

Hungry Ghost stocks Bagel Hole Bagels. I think they are $1.50.

http://www.hungryghostbrooklyn.com/

bkarchitect · February 2015

Speaking of bagels, I saw a Terrace Bagel van outside of Brukleen this morning. No idea on prices.

kenieva · March 2015

What's going on with this place? last couple of times I tried to get bagels they were closed...

joshb · March 2015

They have weird early hours, I believe.

chekhovian · March 2015

All of Franklin Ave between Sterling and St. Marks will be run by the De Zayas. Just you all wait and see.

whynot_31 · March 2015

If you believe that Mike DeZayas is a big player in the area, I think you are under estimating the other players.

Restaurant LLCs are not playing.

...nor is Johnathan Butler (1000 Dean) and the forces that are creating the rest of the Big 16.

http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/44634/links-to-the-big-16-developments-in-western-crown-heights/p1

This is not about little cafes.

Wedge Is Dead, hello Blumm Family Bagels! (728 Franklin)

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