Andy’s Pizza owner Andy Brown has devoted his professional career to perfecting the New York-style slice in DC. Now, he’s taking on bagels. The pizza shop’s Bethesda location (4600 East-West Hwy.)began selling bagels this week, and you can expect to find them at other stores in the coming months.

“I came to bagels through bread. And so I always had this sort of thing that I want to continue to add some version of baking,” Brown says. “Then I saw a lot of the guys in New York doing bagels, so I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to give this a shot.’ And I was like, oh, this is addicting.”

Brown describes his bagels as New York-style, but with a 72 hour dough ferment that creates micro-blistering on the exterior. They’re baked not in pizza ovens, but in ovens that are otherwise used to r

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