BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Fourteen months after a fire forced its temporary closure, a popular dining establishment is making a comeback in Northampton County.<\/p>\n
The Bethlehem location of Mister Lee’s Noodles, specializing in “inspired takes on Japanese ramen dishes,” on June 12 held a soft reopening for takeout\/pickup only at 512 E. Third St., co-owner Erin Shea told 69 News.<\/p>\n
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Mister Lee’s Noodles operates on East Third Street in Bethlehem.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, July 1, the restaurant took another step toward its grand reopening by resuming dine-in service as well.<\/p>\n
Guests can continue to enjoy on-site dining or place orders for takeout\/delivery from 4 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, and Friday, July 3.<\/p>\n
The following regular hours will begin on Wednesday, July 8: 4-9 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; 4-10 p.m. Fridays; noon to 10 p.m. Saturdays; and noon to 8 p.m. Sundays, a manager told 69 News.<\/p>\n
Additionally, some new furniture and other cosmetic updates will be implemented in the coming weeks, the manager said.<\/p>\n
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Mister Lee’s Noodles operates on East Third Street in south Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n
The Bethlehem location of Mister Lee\u2019s, located on the ground floor of the Five 10 Flats apartment building, had been closed since a fire damaged the Bethlehem complex in May 2025.<\/p>\n
Mister Lee\u2019s sustained extensive water damage, forcing crews to replace drywall, an HVAC system and other parts of the restaurant.<\/p>\n
Mister Lee’s Noodles originated in 2016 at the Easton Public Market, with Shea and her husband, Lee Chizmar, opening a second location of the successful concept in 2021 in south Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
The Easton location of Mister Lee\u2019s remains open as normal, serving the same \u201cfarm to ladle goodness\u201d that the community has come to love over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n
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Mister Lee’s Noodles operates at the Easton Public Market on Northampton Street in downtown Easton.<\/p>\n
Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n
Customers can choose from a variety of freshly prepared dishes, including appetizers such as Asian Caesar salad, sourdough mushroom steamed buns, Mr. Lee\u2019s famous wings and Mike\u2019s Tonkotsu (panko-crusted local pork loin, sauerkraut, scallion, sesame, special sauce and miso aioli).<\/p>\n
The menu also features handhelds, including a Szechuan chili fried chicken sandwich and Mr. Lee\u2019s Korean Backyard Burger (bulgogi marinade, kimchi, pickles, sesame aioli, pickled jalapeno and chips); hot noodle dishes such as birria ramen, fried organic chicken ramen and \u201chot & spicy\u201d ramen (Mr. Lee\u2019s ground pork, bok choy, soy, cilantro, pork mushroom dashi, jalapeno and 60 minute egg); and cold noodle dishes such as Korean BBQ beef and \u201cGreen Machine\u201d (mushroom soy marinated tofu, wakame, local mushrooms and sesame soy vinaigrette).<\/p>\n
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Mister Lee’s Noodles<\/p>\n
Following its grand reopening in the coming weeks, customers also can anticipate \u201csome fun menu additions,\u201d such as an Asian-inspired burger, Shea said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re also talking about having oysters, the same oysters that we have at Bolete, which is exciting,\u201d Shea said.<\/p>\n
Chizmar and Shea, who met while working at a restaurant in Boston, opened their first dining establishment, Bolete, in 2007 in a 200-year-old former stagecoach inn on Seidersville Road in Salisbury Township.<\/p>\n
The highly lauded, farm-to-table restaurant has earned several national accolades over its 17 years, including being named a James Beard semifinalist for Outstanding Restaurant in 2019.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Chizmar was a semifinalist for the prestigious James Beard Award for \u201cBest Chef \u2013 Mid-Atlantic\u201d in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Fourteen months after a fire forced its temporary closure, a popular dining establishment is making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,60,8563],"class_list":["post-234285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-business","tag-eat-sip-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234285","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=234285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}