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Oren Salomon
Starship Bagel owner Oren Salomon with his 2025 Best Bagel trophy at New York BagelFest. [Photo: PR Newswire]
North Texas’ Starship Bagel Conquers New York, Wins BagelFest’s ‘Best Bagel’ for 2nd Time in 3 Years
by David Seeley | Nov 17, 2025
Starship, owned by Brooklyn-born North Texas entrepreneur Oren Salomon, has locations in downtown Dallas, Far North Dallas, and Lewisville. At New York's Citi Field Sunday, it beat out 24 international bagel shops and schlepped home with yet another top win.
by David Seeley |
Sep 30, 2024
Salomon—who also founded the coworking space Dallas Fort Work and is the global director of the maps project for Open Coworking—has bagels in his blood. But unlike most Brooklyn-born Jews, he came to North Texas and did something about it, opening three locations of his Starship Bagels in downtown Dallas, Far North Dallas, and Lewisville. On Saturday, he proved he has the goods by schlepping back to NYC and winning three top prizes at the 2024 New York BagelFest—one year after winning "Best Bagel" there in 2023.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jan 24, 2023
Salomon is a Brooklyn-born Polish Jew—three ingredients that practically made him destined to be a bagel expert. He proved it by opening Starship Bagel in Lewisville in July 2021, and earlier this month he opened a schmear-ific location at 1520 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, where he also serves coffee made from award-winning Onyx Coffee Lab beans.
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