Serving up a bowl of chicken penne pasta and garlic bread from Camps Kitchen and Bar.
Food tickets sold for the Taste of East Cobb said the festivities would go on rain or shine, and despite some windy and cloudy skies, a popular community food festival made its return Saturday.
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, several local restaurants and dozens of small businesses and community organizations met the public at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.
Organized by the Walton High School Band Parents Association, proceeds benefitted the Walton band programs.
Students from the Walton and Dickerson Middle School bands performed, and there was a silent auction, raffle tickets, a kids zone, martial arts demonstrations and more.
Also on hand were the Committee for East Cobb Cityhood and the East Cobb Alliance, which opposes cityhood, as their representatives were campaigning ahead of the May 24 referendum, as well as the Cobb Democratic and Republican parties.
A face-painting station attracted all ages.
A shrimp roll from Drift Fish House and Oyster Bar didn’t last long.
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General manager Michael Masters demonstrates the bagel boiling process that customers can watch (via window at right), with a stone oven in the background.
What’s the difference between a standard bagel and a New York—make that Brooklyn—bagel?
Boiling and baking them, said Michael Masters, general manager of the 101 Bagel Café that opened late last week in East Cobb.
It’s a process that’s done on the premises, in the former Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop at 4811 Lower Roswell Road, at Johnson Ferry Road.
Specifically, Masters explains, it’s all about the water used for the boiling, and a 14-step process to get rather close to the taste of the Catskills water that made New York bagels famous.
“It’s very special water,” he says, “and you can taste the difference.”
Masters, who previously was GM of the first 101 Bagel Café, says these bagels have a crisper taste.
“I’ve eaten more bagels over the last four years than I did in my entire life before this,” he said.
The flavors, and the toppings, are endless. The bagels can be plain, wheat, garlic and onion, egg, sesame, poppyseed, cinnamon and raisin and blueberry.
His favorite is jalapeño cheddar, and there’s Asiago cheese and plain bagel colored rainbow-style.
As for the cream cheese schmears, customers can also choose from jalapeño cheddar, strawberry, honey almond, bacon and scallion and a nova lox spread, among others.
Those also are made at the store, which also sells muffins, omelettes, wraps, melts, soups, hashbrowns, juices, coffee and energy drinks.
As Masters talked, staffers were busy setting up and accepting deliveries. The store had a soft opening on Friday, and owner/operator Rob Miller said a ribbon-cutting and more formal promotions will be coming soon.
The East Cobb location is the third 101 Bagel Café to open since the initial spot on Cobb Parkway near The Battery in 2018.
There’s another in Duluth, and in the coming months locations will open in Dunwoody and Milton.
East Cobb was an easy choice, Miller said, given a sizable Jewish community with three synagogues here (and three more in Roswell) and established bagel eateries nearby.
“I know Bagelicious [on Johnson Ferry Road] has been around forever,” said Miller, who moved to Atlanta from Miami three years ago.
A former behavioral psychologist, he ran a coffee shop and events space there, his foray in the food business.
As he was settling in Atlanta, the COVID-19 pandemic struck.
While the initial 101 Bagel Café was affected for a time by closures, the situation meant that “I had to get creative with my business.”
A mobile app was created and curbside service was introduced, and Miller said his employees for the most part “stuck with us.”
Supply chain issues and inflation have prompted a price increase for a bagel—it’s $1.59, up from $1.29, Miller said, but he vowed that “they’re not going up for the next 12 months.”
He has a business partner who shares his commitment to stay focused on incremental growth in carefully selected locations.
The East Cobb store has a viewing window for customers to watch the boiling and baking process, and there are three large tables inside.
A patio in front will have up to six tables, and Miller’s longer-term plans are to have some live musical entertainment.
101 Bagel Café 4811 Lower Roswell Road, Suite 1112 Hours: 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily Website
Patio tables and chairs will soon front what had been a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop at Lower Roswell and Johnson Ferry roads.
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The debut food truck lineup includes Island Chef (Caribbean items), Willie B’s Sisters (soul/comfort food), Baltimore Crab Cake ATL and Hermanas Italian Ice.
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The festival, which benefits Walton High School music programs, will take place at its usual venue—the recreational parking lots at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church—from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In addition to food samples from local restaurants, there will be music, a kids’ zone, a raffle and silent auction and “Best of” voting.
Restaurants and local businesses can apply to be vendors by clicking here.
The Taste of Marietta festival will take place a couple weeks before, on April 24 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Marietta Square.
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