Shalom & Aloha!
Tali's Bagels & Schmear started as a pandemic hobby when we, Talia & Kelly Bongolan-Schwartz, ran out of our freezer stash of New York bagels. We started feeding friends, selling on Instagram, and eventually entered the Farmers Market circuit in January 2022. The response was overwhelming, and in the summer of 2023, we opened our first brick and mortar location in Ward Centre. One year later, Tali’s Bagels landed in Kailua with our second shop. What started as a two-man job has grown to include a full kitchen team in Chinatown, two shop teams in Ward and Kailua, and two farmers market teams in Diamond Head (KCC) and Aiea (Pearlridge).

