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Empanada joint opening on Pike Street in Mattituck

By Vera Chinese

 

Luchi Masliah of Gula Gula Empanads at the Riverhead Farmers Market on Saturday. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
Luchi Masliah of Gula Gula Empanads at the Riverhead Farmers Market on Saturday. (Credit: Vera Chinese)

Gula Gula Empanadas, purveyor of the appetizing Latin American stuffed pastry and a favorite at the weekly Riverhead Farmers Market, will soon open its first storefront in Mattituck.

Owner Luchi Masliah recently signed a lease on a 1,400-square-foot space on Pike Street where she hopes to offer prepared meals to go, a market and of course, her fresh empanadas, when the store opens sometime in March.

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Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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