Call Your Mother Deli

Call Your Mother Deli is a bagel shop and deli at 1615 N. Damen Ave. in Wicker Park, just north of the North, Damen and Milwaukee intersection. The Wicker Park shop opened in May 2026 as the first Chicago location for the Washington, D.C., company, which also runs shops in Maryland, Virginia and Denver. The menu centers on bagels and schmear, stacked bagel sandwiches and freshly roasted coffee, and the company calls the place a neighborhood bagel shop and deli.

What to know

• The company’s website credits Chef Dani with a menu that runs from breakfast through lunch and dessert.
• Stacked bagel sandwiches are the signature, and the website bills the deli sandwiches as classics on steroids.
• The bagels are boiled and then baked in a wood-fired oven, Hoodline reported.
• The coffee program uses a Brazilian blend, according to Hoodline.
• Andrew Dana is a co-founder of the company.