{"id":181511,"date":"2026-05-01T19:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:36:30","slug":"former-downtown-allentown-market-restaurant-reopens-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181511\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Downtown Allentown Market restaurant reopens nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A restaurant at the former Downtown Allentown Market has reopened just a few minutes away, ready to serve wraps, bowls and more.<\/p>\n<p>Zahra opened Friday at 323 S. Cedar Crest Blvd. in Allentown, owner Samantha Younes said. Red Wings Shoes previously operated there.<\/p>\n<p>The menu offers hummus, babaganouj, tabouli, shawarma, falafel, burgers, fries, baklava, Syrian tea and Turkish coffee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to see my old customers and new customers,\u201d Younes said last month.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant operates 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zahra was one of the nine original vendors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/04\/04\/its-terrible-customers-vendors-react-to-downtown-allentown-markets-closure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Allentown Market<\/a> when it opened in 2019 at Allentown\u2019s ArtsWalk at 27 N. Seventh St., and of the three remaining few around when the market closed just over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest trouble was parking and the limited parking that I had,\u201d Younes said last month. \u201cParking and visibility were my biggest struggles down there. But with being in this strip mall in a highly visible and busy corridor like Cedar Crest Boulevard, I think I improved both visibility and \u2026 there\u2019s an enormous parking lot, so that addresses that concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sister restaurant Aladdin operates at 651 Union Blvd. in Allentown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A restaurant at the former Downtown Allentown Market has reopened just a few minutes away, ready to serve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-181511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181511","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=181511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}