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Bits & Bites: Church Bar closes, Cypriana adds Howard County location and the devil is in the culinary details

  • Church, the beleaguered bar in Old Goucher, has permanently closed.

    Shandi Chester

    Church, the beleaguered bar in Old Goucher, has permanently closed.

Shandi Chester
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Church, the beleaguered bar in Old Goucher, has permanently closed.

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Church Bar started out with lofty goals. When it opened last fall, the bar’s mission was nothing short of shaking up the way the hospitality industry treats its employees.

Founder Chelsea Gregoire, a former student of theology known around Baltimore for crafting the beverage programs at stylish spots like Topside, True Chesapeake Oyster Co. and Ida B’s Table, envisioned a bar-as-community-gathering ...