One thing I was not going to miss was Duby’s Bagel Bakery’s opening day in Old Saybrook! Give me a toasted everything bagel with cream cheese and lox, and I’m a very happy girl. Even happier because I can get the REAL thing anytime I want. Duby, the infamous baker behind Beaver Brook Bakery, longed to open a brick-and-mortar and just finished decking out a fresh granite-clad space at 785 Boston Post Road...

Duby Shelsky has always been a baker at heart and it has been a lifelong dream of his to open his own store.

Shelsky is from New York City and grew up eating the food he will be selling at the new shop.

Shelsky said he started the business four years ago when he begn participating in various farmers’ markets and his products would always sell out…

Duby Shelsky first worked at a bagel shop when he was 16 years old. Starting on Monday, he will run his own shop in Old Saybrook.

Shelsky, a retired apparel executive, has been baking his whole life and grew up in New York City, where he learned to make the New York-style bagels that he will serve at the shop. He bakes the bagels on cedar planks and covers them with burlap…