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Six months after opening itsmuch-hyped Dogpatch creamery,Daily Driveris adding a second San Francisco location, this one in the Ferry Building marketplace. The “no frills” spot could open as soon as Friday,theSF Chroniclereports, and will offer a limited menu and food to go.
From the outside, it seems like a swift expansion: Daily Driver’s first location was literally years in the making, as its owners announced their plans toopen at 2535 3rd Street in 2017. Since then, the Bay Area has seen a bit of a bagel boom: PizzaHackergot into the game with BagelMacher, Midnite Bagelsbrought its weekly pop-up to Tartine, andBoichik Bagels opened in Berkeleylast month. Bay Area bagels,once an object of disappointment and scorn, are breaking out.
The collaboration of two couples — Potrero Hill residents David Jablons and Tamara Hicks, who ownToluma Farms and Tomales Farmstead creamery; and Hadley and David Kreitz, who are, respectively, a cheesemaker and industrial designer/bagel recipe developer — Daily Driveropened its Dogpatch creamery in June, hand-rolling wood-fired bagels and making cream cheese and butter inside its massive (7,000 or so square feet) space. The Dogpatch Daily Driver also operates as a weekday cafe,offering a menuof soups, salads, and bowls on weekdays, as well as brunch on the weekends.
The Ferry Building spot won’t be as fancy, David Kreitz tells theChron, as at least in the beginning the bagel shop will be a pop-up location of Daily Driver, “a pull-down-butcher-paper, write-the-menu, quick-turnaround, serve-the-commuters sort of situation,” he says, serving the businesses’ bagels, pretzels, cheese, and butter, as well as some “limited toppings” that will allow customers to build their own bagel sandwiches. As with their Dogpatch location, they’ll serve drip brew from Oakland-based roasterRed Bay Coffee— an imperative offering, as the Ferry Building DD will open at 6 a.m.
There won’t be any seating at the Ferry Building location, which Kreitz characterizes as “super quick and dirty.” The hope is that format will change in time, as the Ferry Building pop-up, which is slated to last a year, could potentially evolve into a permanent venue. That’s not the only expansion in Daily Driver’s future, Kreitz says, as “we have other things in the works right now...This is the first of many spokes.”