Union Bagel News Today

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A roundup of the state's vegan news.

A roundup of the state's vegan news.

The Wrap: Emilitsa – eventually; Bethel to lose a favorite cafe Taco Trio to move, and a new pastry program will aid immigrant women. Share Emilitsa, the go-to spot in Portland for sophisticated Greek food since 2008, closed after the holidays because of the pandemic. The owners left an outgoing phone message making a vague promise that they would return to 547 Congress St. sometime in late spring. Then, crickets. Emilitsa’s social media hasn’t been updated in months, and that same farew...

Share Alison Pray, founder and co-owner of Standard Baking Co. in Portland, taste-tests bagels at the Portland Press Herald. Staff photo by Gregory Rec The judges were swift and severe. After getting their first look at the bagels lined up in the center of a conference room table in the Press Herald newsroom, they immediately dismissed the anemic ones on the end because they looked as if they hadn’t spent enough time in an oven. Some judges refused to acknowledge that they even were bagels, ...