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

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.

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

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

Cafe Rue Dix has great bread for sale

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

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

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.

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

Now open

Bread, wonderful. I'll be by shortly.

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? 

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

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

The game is the game.

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

$2 bagels?

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.

$2 bagels?

not MY $2. smh. 

$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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

...how much should a bagel cost?

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.

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?

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

http://www.hungryghostbrooklyn.com/

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

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

They have weird early hours, I believe. 

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

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.