Exodus Bagels To Move To JP - For Good

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA — Exodus Bagels is coming to JP. For good. Yes, that popular bagel pop up: The one that can cause even the most averse to waiting on line do so at farmers markets in JP, or hoof it over to Rozzie for some chewy, New York Style Bagel sandwiches. Exodus has found a home in the neighborhood.

They'd originally planned to open up shop in Roslindale, thanks to the 643 folks who pledged $63,164 last year on Kickstarter. But the owner Adam Hirsh (who lives in JP) realized after some calculations it was taking too long to turn the commissary space into retail space and they needed to settle into a shop where they could sell the bagels, soon.

Enter the space where Canto 6 once graced the corner of Washington and Green/Glen Street and across from the police station.

"We need a space to serve consistently without bouncing all over town. We want to preserve our community investment by opening in a spot that we used to frequent (and have since missed). And we're grateful to serve the very neighborhood in which Exodus was born," the folks at Exodus posted to Facebook and their Kickstarter page on Sept. 10.

The folks at Exodus Bagels say they still have a plan to use 2 McCraw Street the commissary space where they currently make the magic er bagels with some retail space down the line.

"But in order for our company to survive and gain the proper footing to raise the appropriate capital for that venture, we had to first find a location with all the licensing in place to sell more immediately," they said in the post.

Details on just when Exodus Bagels will open for good in their new home to come. In the mean time, you can expect to see them continue to pop up every Wednesday at Evy Tea on Amory.

And why are they called Exodus Bagels, anyway?

Hirsh writes that his love of bagels stems from the idea that it is the people's food. "Bagels are not exclusive," he wrote on his Kickstarter adding he liked that anyone could eat them and bagels didn't (and couldn't) discriminate.

"We are not named after the old testament. It is concerning the displacement of people that Exodus takes its name. We are acutely aware of the precariousness of what a home is in Boston...and how it is only a matter of time before people are displaced and pushed into new places. We are trying to create a model of a business that does not push people away, but attracts them to return from their own inevitable wandering. We want to be a home away from home. So far, in a small manner, we have achieved that," reads his description on Kickstarter.

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