Caputo Bagels

This bagel shop isn’t about recreating the bakery that his family operated for more than a century. It’s about taking what five generations taught him and giving himself the freedom to apply it to something new.

“Caputo’s will always be part of me. That’s where I learned to be a baker,” says James. “But I didn’t want to rebuild the past. Rafi and I wanted to create something of our own. I’m still using what my father taught me and everything I learned through my family — I’m just using it differently now”