Forgotten Bakery, the South Sacramento shop known for hand-rolled bagels and Chilean-style empanadas, is coming to Midtown, at 2107 L St. The second location is being built by owners Robby Naim and Paul Dollar, who have invited supporters to help get the new shop off the ground.
The bakery’s first location is at 4650 Stockton Blvd., in a renovated building that had been vacant for more than a decade. Naim and Dollar, who are life and business partners, built the menu around the family recipes each of them grew up with. Naim, a Sacramento native, learned bagel-making from his father, who ran a Bay Area bakery for about 20 years. Dollar, who has Chilean roots, has been making empanadas his whole life.
Every bagel is beer-fermented overnight, hand-rolled, boiled in honey water and baked fresh each morning. Flavors rotate, with options like jalapeño cheddar and za’atar, and the Forgotten Bagel comes with chive cream cheese, bacon and jalapeño. The empanadas are hand-folded in savory and sweet varieties, including beef, spinach and cheese, and guava cream cheese. Dollar’s favorite is the Chilean beef empanada with onions, olives, raisins and hard-boiled egg…