{"id":184334,"date":"2026-05-05T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184334\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:03:09","slug":"braveheart-pub-in-hellertown-up-for-sale-as-owner-seeks-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184334\/","title":{"rendered":"Braveheart Pub in Hellertown up for sale as owner seeks to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A roughly two-decade-old pub has gone up for sale in the Lehigh Valley as the owner prepares to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Braveheart Highland Pub, at 430 Main St. in Hellertown, has been priced at $3.8 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/listings.greaterlehighvalleyrealtors.com\/search\/detail.cfm?MLSNUM=776152\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a listing from realtor Justin Kline<\/a>. The sale would include the business, the real estate and the liquor license.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1BAtTNNoqU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Announcing his retirement Tuesday morning<\/a>, owner Andy Lee said, \u201cBraveheart has been a very important part of our lives for the last 20 years. This decision hasn\u2019t come lightly, but I think it\u2019s time for a new chapter in my life and frankly I\u2019m looking to simplify life going forward. Braveheart is going strong. We have a great staff. We have great customers and I will not sell [Braveheart] to someone that wants to change the operation or what it stands for! There\u2019s no rush on this from my standpoint and I will be very selective on who\/if anyone I move forward with down the path of selling it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2018\/10\/10\/bill-white-why-state-rep-justin-simmons-campaign-ad-is-misleading\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened<\/a> the pub in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2020\/05\/13\/pandemic-prepping-hellertowns-braveheart-renovating-dining-rooms-adding-covered-deck-in-anticipation-of-customers-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 2006<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bravehearthighlandpub.com\/food_menu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">It offers<\/a> dishes like Guinness beef stew, Scottish meat pie, fish and chips and bangers and mash, the website listed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/07\/29\/hellertown-new-restaurants\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Lehigh Valley borough is becoming the region\u2019s newest foodie hot spot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A roughly two-decade-old pub has gone up for sale in the Lehigh Valley as the owner prepares to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,204,182,205,434,28,435,436,4237,289,432],"class_list":["post-184334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-hellertown","tag-local-news","tag-lower-saucon-township","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-saucon-valley","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334","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=184334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}