{"id":107609,"date":"2026-02-07T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:46:08","slug":"downtown-allentown-restaurant-week-brings-crowds-despite-bitter-cold-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/107609\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Allentown Restaurant Week brings crowds despite bitter cold | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WFMZ) &#8212; If Allentown restaurants aren&#8217;t gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday, they&#8217;re busy with Downtown Restaurant Week.<\/p>\n<p>From embodying the streets of Tokyo at Okatshe, to creating a slice of Havana at Rosa Blanca, despite the bitter cold, business is booming at both restaurants on Hamilton Street.<\/p>\n<p>Okatshe is offering a fixed menu for $42 a person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have four courses on the menus. We have some starters, some small plates. We have a dumpling course as well, then we&#8217;re doing sushi with a selection of a few different rolls and then we have some of our entrees to finish. We&#8217;re also including some edamame with the starters and mochi for dessert,&#8221; said Tyler Chambers, general manager of Okatshe.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Blanca is offering three courses for restaurant week at $39 a person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very traditionally Cuban but with our own little flair to it,&#8221; said Frank DeFelice who serves as managing partner of Rosa Blanca.<\/p>\n<p>Diners can get one appetizer, one entree, one dessert and a mocktail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re using this as a preview of our spring menu launch. We have a whole seasonal menu change coming up at the end of this month and using restaurant week as a time to showcase these dishes and get some mealtime feedback,&#8221; DeFelice explained.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Allentown Restaurant Week runs through Saturday, Feb. 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WFMZ) &#8212; If Allentown restaurants aren&#8217;t gearing up for Super Bowl Sunday, they&#8217;re busy with Downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-107609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}