Mother Dough Bagels

Mother Dough Bagels is an organic sourdough bagel shop in Santa Barbara, California, serving hand-rolled, naturally fermented bagels made with simple, high-quality ingredients. Our small-batch bagels are boiled and baked fresh daily for a perfectly chewy texture and rich flavor. We offer classic favorites like sea salt, sesame, poppy, everything, and furikake, plus seasonal flavors such as wild blueberry and strawberry pink peppercorn. Pair your bagel with house-made schmears and locally roasted coffee in our cozy, community-focused café. Mother Dough Bagels is your neighborhood spot for artisan bagels in Santa Barbara. 🥯

Mother Dough Bagels is a bagel shop in Santa Barbara, California. It is listed at 604 Santa Barbara St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, which places it among the local businesses of Santa Barbara that residents and visitors turn to when they need this kind of service close by.

In Santa Barbara, the best-known bakeries and bagel shops have lines on weekend mornings, so arrive early or order ahead where the shop offers it. Across California, immigrant bakeries add Mexican pan dulce, Vietnamese banh mi bread, Chinese buns, Middle Eastern sweets and European rye to the mix, and many gluten-free and vegan bakeries have opened in larger cities. Check the listing for hours, whether the shop accepts custom cake orders and its Google rating before you go, and call about allergens, since small kitchens often share equipment. Day-old bread and end-of-day discounts are common if you ask.

Hours are published for 5 days a week. On most of those days it is open 8 am–1 pm. It is closed on Monday, Tuesday. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. No phone number is listed for this business, so the Google Maps link on this page is the best route for directions and any contact details Google has on file. More information is available on its website, motherdoughbagels.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.4 out of 5 from 106 reviews, which is a strong result for a bagel shop in Santa Barbara and suggests consistent service.

Santa Barbara is in California, on the West Coast, where the climate ranges from foggy coast to hot inland valleys, wildfire season can affect air quality in late summer, and traffic is the main thing to plan around. Traffic in Santa Barbara peaks on weekday mornings and afternoons, so allow extra time then. Addresses read from the street number up to the city, state abbreviation and five-digit ZIP code; the map link on this page shows the exact spot.

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