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Justin Barner fillets a yellowfin tuna at Upstream Trucking, a wholesale seafood distributor in Portland. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
This is the third of five parts in our series on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Portland’s restaurants.
Closing the doors of Vinland on Portland’s Congress Street last summer not only upended owner David Levi’s life and that of his four employees, but also affected more than a dozen vendors he relied on for the all-local fine dining restaurant.
In seven years of business, more than a third of his revenue had gone back into the Maine economy, supporting farmers, fishermen, local food producers and restaurant supply vendors.
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