Call Your Mother

Call Your Mother is a neighborhood bagel shop and deli with a Georgetown location in the East Village area of the neighborhood, bringing the New York deli tradition and the Jewish-American culinary heritage to the Georgetown residential community with the playful and the irreverent approach that the Call Your Mother brand has established as its specific identity in the Washington deli market. The bagel shop’s name, which invokes the Jewish-American familial imperative that the parent delivers to the adult child who has not been in adequate contact, captures the warm and the slightly guilt-inducing cultural posture that the Call Your Mother brand performs with the self-aware humor that the Georgetown professional community appreciates.

The Call Your Mother bagel program centers on the New York-style water bagel that is boiled before baking, which produces the chewy, dense crumb and the glossy, slightly crispy crust that the New York bagel tradition defines as the standard for the authentic bagel. The Georgetown diner who has the New York reference point for the bagel, whether from the New York upbringing or the New York visit, uses the Call Your Mother bagel as the Georgetown substitute for the specifically New York experience that the Washington bagel landscape has not historically provided.

The deli menu at Call Your Mother extends beyond the bagel into the Jewish-American deli tradition: the lox and the cream cheese schmear, the egg and the cheese breakfast sandwich, the deli meat sandwich, and the specialty deli preparations that the Call Your Mother menu presents with the playful naming and the quality ingredients that the brand has established as its culinary identity.

The Georgetown East Village location of Call Your Mother serves the residential neighborhood with the neighborhood bagel shop that the Georgetown community uses for the morning coffee and the bagel, the weekend breakfast, and the deli lunch. The Call Your Mother Georgetown location serves the Georgetown East Village residential community with the neighborhood bagel shop and deli that the New York deli tradition and the Jewish-American culinary heritage provides in the Georgetown neighborhood setting. The Georgetown bagel shop’s morning and the midday service provides the Georgetown residential community with the neighborhood deli breakfast and lunch that the East Village residential area uses for the accessible neighborhood dining.

The Call Your Mother Georgetown location is open for the morning and the midday service for the Georgetown residential and professional community that uses the neighborhood bagel shop and deli for the regular morning bagel, the cream cheese schmear, and the deli sandwich that the Call Your Mother menu provides. Call Your Mother is open for the morning and the midday service for the Georgetown residential and professional community at the Georgetown East Village location.