Decades after Cosmo Kramer famously went on strike against H&H Bagels and a year after the announcement of its Tampa store, the New York chain has finally arrived.
The shop at 1155 S Dale Mabry Hwy opens Thursday. The first 200 customers to betray Kramer get a mystery H&H tote bag with a gift card (each one with random values up to $100).
The popular Manhattan bagel shop, which first opened in 1972, recently expanded into Florida with locations in Boca Raton and Jacksonville. A West Palm Beach shop opens in October, the company told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, also confirming that more locations are still planned for Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Miami.
The NYC staple has been featured in shows like “Seinfeld,” “The Office,” “Sex and the City,” “Entourage,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and more.
To achieve its “signature flavor,” the company says it kettle-boils its bagels in NYC water before baking—meaning Tampa’s bagels will be boiled in New York before being shipped to Florida to finish the rest of the process, per Bloom Tampa Bay.
H&H Bagels’ Tampa shop will be open from 6 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. For more information, visit hhbagels.com and follow @hhbagels on social media.
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This article appears in Sept. 25 – Oct. 1, 2025.