At Flour Shop Bagels there is a list of fun facts posted on the glass door of a big refrigerator that customers can peruse as they wait for their order.

One of them reads: “We Started as a Small Stand in Our Driveway!! In June, 2021, we set out a dozen bagels and assorted pastries on a painted shelf in our driveway. In just a few weeks we were selling out of everything our small kitchen could make in a matter of minutes.”

Owners Jon and Hannah Young have come a long way since they started their business from the kitchen of their Ledyard home three years ago. In the fall of 2022, they expanded to Stonington’s Velvet Mill, where they grew the fan base for their sourdough bagels.

Then, this past May, they expanded again and moved their shop to Mechanic Street in Pawcatuck. On a recent early Saturday morning, there was a line out the door waiting to get in.

All the bagels at Flour Shop are hand-rolled, boiled and baked in-house. They have staples like plain, sesame seed, three cheese and everything seasoning, but given the day, week, or season, you may walk in and see varieties such as jalapeno Havarti, apple pie, rosemary sea salt, roasted garlic and tomato, marble rye, maple bacon, pumpernickel, bacon egg and cheese, black pepper parmesan, blueberry crunch, spinach and feta, cheddar scallion or the whole wheat harvest grain.

They build their sandwiches on the bagels or their house-made sourdough bread. You select the variety of bagel, and their kitchen serves up creations like a recent special called The Heart of the City, with capicola, an over easy egg, provolone, arugula and aioli, for $9.25. Or The Sweet Lou ($9.50), with cheddar, bacon, an egg, and maple butter.

They also prepare and serve up The Cheech ($9.50), which is egg, soupy, sharp cheddar, a hashbrown patty and chipotle aioli. Or the Hot Boi ($9), sharp cheddar, cream cheese, an egg, bacon, and hot honey. For The Mechanic ($8.25), they will pile on a sausage patty, an egg, American cheese and the aioli. The Green Monster is $10, and it is a bagel topped with whipped scallion cream cheese, avocado, tomato, and everything seasoning. The Lox is, well, lox on a bagel with tomato, red onion and caper dill cream cheese, for $11.

Lunch is served anytime, and there are options such as the T-Swifty, with turkey, bacon, romaine, aioli and avocado, as well as chips and a pickle, for $12.50. Or you might fancy the Piper, which is grilled cheddar on house sourdough with pesto for $8, and the option of adding bacon or tomatoes.

The Veg Head is house-made garlic hummus with sprouts, cucumber, tomato and chili flakes, for $10. And then there is the Veggie BLT for $12 with veggie bacon, aioli, romaine, tomato and sprouts, as well as a traditional BLT for the meat eater.

Or, you can just get a bag of bagels to go ($11 for 6; $22 for a dozen), or a single toasted bagel ($2 or $2.50) with add-on options such as butter, jam, peanut butter, hummus, or plain or scallion cream cheese. The add-ons cost $1 to $2.

They make muffins like coffee cake and blueberry ($3 each), and super-sized raspberry jam bars ($2.75), and salted caramel cookies ($2), but the big attraction is the bagels.

Like several of the emerging eateries in this region, the owners are a young, hard-working couple with roots in the local restaurant industry. In three years, they have grown their bagel business from their home, to the Velvet Mill, and now about six or seven miles down Route 1 to Pawcatuck, and their new shop on Mechanic Street. Give it a try.

Flour Shop Bagels

20 Mechanic St., Pawcatuck

(860) 495-3545

www.flourshopbagles.com or search their name on Instagram

Atmosphere: Worn out in a good way, kind of like a grandmother’s eclectic parlor converted to a bagel shop. There are a few mismatched pieces of furniture, four stools at a counter looking out the front window, and two more chairs and ivy plants creating a cubby at another window. Mostly, it’s a takeout place.

Cuisine: Hand-rolled sourdough bagels and sourdough bread used to make delicious, innovative breakfast and lunch sandwiches. There’s also a large selection of hot and cold beverages.

Alcohol: No

Hours: 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; closed Tuesday and Wednesday. There is a cautionary note on the website that daily closing time is subject to sellout.

Service: Friendly and efficient

Prices: Reasonable

Credit Cards: Yes

Handicapped accessibility: There are a couple steps up to get in the door.