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26 | NOVEMBER 11 • 2021 

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rowing up in 
Manhattan’s Lower 
East Side, Anne 
Goldberg lived right down 
the street from Katz’ 
Delicatessen, where Jewish 
foods and culture have 
thrived since 1888.
“I started eating knishes at 
a very young age,” says the 
owner and founder of Lake 
Orion’s Mannie’s Bagel and 
Delicatessen, which is now 
celebrating its 18th year serv-
ing up creative bagels, sand-
wiches and specialty drinks. 
“Jewish food is delicious and 
very home-cooked.”
As a first-generation 
American and daughter of 
two immigrants, with her 
mother from Russia and her 
father from Poland, Goldberg 

has long been inspired by 
her family’s journey and the 
Jewish and Eastern European 
worlds she was surrounded 
with. Through her youth, she 
was taught the importance of 
home-cooked meals and car-
rying on both traditions and 
recipes.
While classic Jewish dish-
es like gefilte fish and white 
fish soups were a staple in 
Goldberg’s household as a 
child, she remembers, above 
all, one food always being 
present at dinner. “As far as 
I can tell you, deli bread was 
always on the table,” she says. 
“That’s a European thing.”

PIVOTING AND 
OPENING A BUSINESS
Yet Goldberg never dreamed 

of one day making her own 
deli bread — let alone owning 
and operating a successful 
bagel shop that’s been hailed 
as one of the best in the area 
by various newspapers — 
until the age of 44, when she 
decided to venture into the 
small business world.
In the years prior, Goldberg 
mostly stayed home to take 
care of her children, but as 
they grew older and more 
independent, opening a busi-
ness became an option for the 
Lake Orion resident.
With her father having 
worked at a bagel factory 
upon moving to Detroit from 
New York City in the early 
1990s, and Goldberg having 
worked at the factory herself 
doing payroll and bookkeep-

ing, the art of making bagels 
had steadily become a part of 
her everyday life.
In 2004, when the time was 
right, Goldberg decided to 
move forward with her plan 
to open a bagel store that 
would serve not only bagels, 
but a huge variety of deli and 
breakfast sandwiches, includ-
ing Brooklyn Reubens, Dinty 
Moores and, of course, tradi-
tional lox creations.
“I started getting serious 
about it, but I didn’t want to 
be in that part of town,” she 
says, referring to the area of 
Southfield, West Bloomfield 
and Oak Park where many 
Jewish-owned food business-
es are located. “It was way 
too saturated over there. We 
needed to go further north.”

‘Three Shmears’ for Mannie’s

ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For 18 years, Mannie’s Bagel and Delicatessen has fed the Lake Orion community.

ABOVE: Anne Goldberg.
LEFT: A basket of taco jalapeno jack bagels.

PHOTOS FROM MANNIE’S BAGELS

