Baltik’s Bagel has only been open a year, but Yero Rudzinskas is already off to a great start, and now lines out the door on a late Tuesday morning thanks to a big win at New York Bagelfest.
“I think if I ever got on the wrong side of the law and had to choose a death row meal it would probably be bagel with smoked salmon and capers,” Rudzinskas says, describing his love for bagels outside his shop in Richmond’s Southside.
A former tech exec who worked at high end restaurants years earlier, he noticed the lack of bagel shops in the area and opened up Baltik’s last October. And he and his team took home the people’s choice award for best bagel against 50 other shops from across the globe…