Spread Bagelry Plans Its First Bucks County Shop in Newtown
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
By Nick Rau | Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily | November 10, 2026
Spread Bagelry, the Philadelphia shop known for wood-fired bagels boiled in honey-sweetened water, wants to open its first Bucks County location at the Village at Newtown. Newtown Township supervisors hold a public hearing on the plan at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, at the Township Building, according to a legal notice published Oct. 25 and the township meeting calendar.
Note from Nick: If supervisors sign off, Newtown gets a wood-fired bagel shop with planned 5 a.m. openings, which sounds like a very good reason to set an early alarm.
Bagel people tend to have strong opinions, and Spread gives them plenty to talk about. The company says its bagels are hand-shaped from naturally leavened, fermented dough made with malt from Pennsylvania farmers, boiled in honey-infused water and baked in a brick oven fueled by wood, a process it says gives each bagel a subtle hint of sweetness, a chewy interior and a crisp, golden exterior. For now, the closest shops to Bucks County are in Montgomery County: the company's locations page lists 17 shops in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, South Carolina and Georgia, including Upper Dublin and Ambler, and it already shows Newtown as coming soon at 2804 S. Eagle Road.
The plan is a conditional use application for the roughly 2,300-square-foot Five Guys space at 2804 S. Eagle Road, which previously held a Saladworks. According to meeting highlights from the township Planning Commission in October, the applicants proposed hours of 5 a.m. to 3 p.m., with indoor seating growing from 23 to 37 seats and the 10 patio seats staying. Spread makes its dough in Fishtown, Philadelphia, and ships it to its shops, where the bagels are finished in an on-site wood-fired oven.
Planners also asked about the morning rush, since the shop would share the area with a Starbucks and the Oishi restaurant nearby, and the applicants said they expect little morning conflict with the neighboring retail. The commission voted to recommend approval as presented, subject to the stated conditions, which sends the final call to the Board of Supervisors.
There's no opening date yet, and the company's Newtown page still says to check back for hours. It also hasn't been announced whether Five Guys is closing or relocating, a question 94.5 PST raised when it reported the plan on Oct. 27. Tuesday's session is a public hearing, so residents can attend at 100 Municipal Drive, and the supervisors could act that night or at a later meeting.
Is Spread Bagelry opening in Newtown, PA? It plans to. Spread Bagelry has applied to open at 2804 S. Eagle Road in the Village at Newtown, which would be its first Bucks County location, and Newtown Township supervisors hold a public hearing on Nov. 10, 2026.
When will Spread Bagelry open in Newtown? No opening date has been announced. The company lists the Newtown shop as coming soon.
What hours would Spread Bagelry Newtown keep? The applicants proposed 5 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the Planning Commission meeting highlights, and 94.5 PST reported the shop would serve breakfast and lunch.
Where is the closest Spread Bagelry to Bucks County right now? The closest current shops are in Upper Dublin, at 1091 Market Street in Dresher, and in Ambler, at 40 W. Skippack Pike.
If you're thinking about the area around the Village at Newtown, my Newtown guide and my Bucks County neighborhood guides are good places to start.
I'm Nick Rau with the Rarity Real Estate Team, ranked in the Top 1% of agents nationally (RealTrends 2025, individual), and I live right here in Bucks County. Questions about Newtown? Call (215) 593-7498 or email [email protected].
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Photo: "The Saturday Bagel Queue, Montreal (St-Viateur)" by M. Rehemtulla (original on Flickr), via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY 2.0. File photograph taken in December 2010 at a Montreal bakery; it shows a wood-fired bagel oven, not Spread Bagelry and not Newtown. Cropped (tightened on the oven and bagel baskets so people and shop signs are out of frame) and naturally darkened, with text added, for the cover and featured image; no scenery added or removed. No endorsement is implied.
Reporting checked November 10, 2026. Sources: Newtown Township legal notice (Oct. 25, 2026, via NoticeRegistry) and township meeting calendar; Planning Commission meeting highlights (John Mack Newtown); Spread Bagelry's Newtown, locations and about pages; 94.5 PST (Oct. 27, 2026). Plans and dates can change.
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