Call Your Mother, the DMV-area chain of “Jew-ish” delis known for bagels, is opening a new location in Gainesville, co-founder Andrew Dana has confirmed. This new shop will be the deli’s first location in Prince William County.
The new location will be at 7372 Atlas Walk Way in Gainesville’s Virginia Gateway shopping plaza (in the former Cold Stone Creamery space). Call Your Mother is working on the permitting process and is shooting for a Q1 2026 opening, according to Dana.
“We’re going to make it super-duper vibey, vibrant, colorful, so fun,” Dana says. “Every once in a while, we put a poll out asking where we should open, and we were getting [a lot of] people saying Gainesville. … I went out there and I said, ‘Oh my god, this is so cute.’”
This new shop will have an interior space of about 1,300 square feet, with a capacity for around 22 people, permitting materials say. As for the signature decor, Dana says, “We try and have every store have sort of a unique pop,” which they’ll be brainstorming in the time leading up to opening.
The menu will be the same as other DMV area locations. Existing cafes offer a selection of bagels and bagel sandwiches, plus coffee and other snacks like latkes and cookies.
The brand has recently opened several new locations in Northern Virginia — including Reston, Vienna, and Crystal City — and Dana says they’ll keep expanding to meet demand. “I’ve always said, as long as we’re keeping our quality up and the and the service is still top notch and the vibes are still vibrant, we’ll take bagels to whoever wants bagels,” he says.
In all, there are 13 Call Your Mother locations in the DMV, plus several in Colorado. It has one additional upcoming location in Annapolis, Maryland, which is set to open “in the next month or month and a half,” according to Dana.
Feature image courtesy Call Your Mother
