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Starship Bagel owner Oren Salomon with his 2025 Best Bagel trophy at New York BagelFest. [Photo: PR Newswire]<\/p>\n
North Texas\u2019 Starship Bagel\u2014the first bagel shop brand to become a James Beard Award finalist<\/a>\u2014had another big claim to fame when it won \u201cBest Bagel\u201d honors at the 2023 New York BagelFest. Over the past weekend at Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets, Starship schlepped to a \u201cBest Bagel\u201d victory once again, beating out 24 other brands from the Big Apple and as far away as Madrid, Honolulu, Montreal, Seattle, and Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n Starship, owned by Brooklyn-born North Texas entrepreneur Oren Salomon, has locations in downtown Dallas, Far North Dallas, and Lewisville. Last year, the brand also competed at BagelFest, winning 2024 \u201cSchmear of the Year.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n More than 2,000 attendees, world-class bagel makers, dozens of leading food brands, and \u201cmedia from across the globe\u201d were on hand Sunday for the sold-out festival at Citi Field.<\/p>\n \u201cBagelFest feels like a party, but for the makers, it\u2019s a high-stakes moment,\u201d BagelFest founder Sam Silverman said in a statement. \u201cWinning an award can propel a small regional shop into the national culinary conversation. Our 25 exhibitors were hand selected because they are leading the bagel boom in their cities, and when they go head to head, the creativity and craftsmanship reach levels most people never imagined possible for a bagel.\u201d<\/p>\n At this year\u2019s event, Starship Bagel also won in the sub-categories Best Showmanship and Best New York-Style Bagel. Starship was the runner up for the category Garam Masala Schmear.<\/p>\n Blind tastings led to the win<\/p>\n At. BagelFest, expert \u201cBreadhead\u201d judges conducted blind tastings to determine the year\u2019s most prestigious awards. Attendees cast votes using BagelFest\u2019s signature token system. Additional juried categories, including Schmear of the Year, Most Creative, Best Showmanship, and Best Bialy, were evaluated onsite by an expanded panel of expert judges comprising leading chefs, authors, food journalists, bakers, creators, and culinary historians.<\/p>\n \u201cBagel makers play an important role,\u201d Silverman said. \u201cThey feed people, create comfort, and build careers. But the work can feel lonely because the challenges are so specific. BagelFest brings the community together so no one has to navigate it alone, and so everyone can learn from those who\u2019ve already lived it.\u201d<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss what\u2019s next. Subscribe\u00a0to\u00a0Dallas\u00a0Innovates.<\/p>\n Track Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s business and innovation landscape with our curated news in your inbox Tuesday-Thursday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \tR E A D\u00a0\u00a0 N E X T\t<\/p>\n \t Fort Worth-based Ratliff is one of many North Texans who’ve weighed in on a recent Texas Monthly story titled In Defense of “Y’all,” a Perfect Word. Writer Dan Solomon wrote the piece in response to a New York Times opinion column which pooh-poohed “y’all” as “much too slangy, regional or what you might even call ethnic to ever gain universal acceptance.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Align has investment teams based in Dallas and Cleveland. Legalex is\u00a0an all-in-one technology-enabled platform designed to support process serving, court e-filing, skip tracing, and investigative services across all 50 states.<\/p>\n \t Dallas-based Smoothie King has become the first-ever Official Smoothie of the TCS New York City Marathon. To celebrate, the company’s offering a free hydration smoothie nationwide on Global Running Day (today, June 4). And one location in America is leading the pace\u2014with a ‘Run-Thru’ window in Richardson.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/XOXO_Yall_iStock-970.jpg\")
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