Specialties
TOB's is Red Bluff's first truly premiere New York-style bagelrie.
We are a veteran owned and family run cottage kitchen specializing in serving the Red Bluff area specialty artisanal bagels made according to the techniques and traditions used for decades by New York City bagelries. Our bagels use simple ingredients, are hand rolled, cold proofed for texture and taste, malt barley -water boiled, and high temp steam baked.
We believe a real bagel must be boiled first then baked.
We believe you deserve a real bagel that is made with love and intention!
History
Established in 2024.
Hello everyone! I'm Dan otherwise known as "Papa Otter" of Two Otters Bagels. My wife and I have affectionately called each other otters for many years due to how otters will hold each others' paws while in the water so as not to float away from the tide.
TOBs came to be after years of being disenfranchised from a real, amazing, bagel in the north valley. The bagels were either not boiled, not proofed, not boiled AND not proofed , or were nothing more than a round roll with a hole - a Frankenbagel. I had had enough. It was time the north state understood what it was really missing.
In August 2024 early "beta" testing occurred using "Mama Otter's" work colleagues as the primary testing ground for concept bagels. Instantly orders were made and more ordering followed. Just a few months later a commercial kitchen has been apprehended as local response has been amazing!
Today the north state can now have a REAL. AMAZING. BAGEL. New York style.
Meet the Business Owner: Dan E.
Hello everyone! I'm Dan otherwise known as "Papa Otter" of Two Otters Bagels. I'm a proud husband, father of a daughter & son, Air Force veteran, former federal background investigator, former nursing student and former attendee of Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute - Dallas, TX. I've had a love of cooking since 9 years old and particularly bagels since I was 11 ever since I first heard they were a bread that was boiled.
My passion for cooking and baking has always been with me wherever I've been and wherever I've gone. Today it is my great passion to see that the place I grew up in is treated to the amazing humble bagel as they deserve and as the bagel deserves. I tell people "I hope to ruin what you've thought bagels were."
TOBs is a passion project where I want every person to experience the joy and delight of a truly authentic and real New York-style bagel where it has been hand rolled, cold proofed, malt barely syrup boiled, and hot steam baked. I'm the community bagel pusher!