{"id":249486,"date":"2026-07-22T16:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:26:36","slug":"new-restaurant-to-open-in-former-wiz-kidz-space-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/249486\/","title":{"rendered":"New restaurant to open in former Wiz Kidz space in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Wiz Kidz property in Allentown will soon come back to life with an Indian fusion restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The yet-to-be-named restaurant will open in about two months at 751 Union Blvd., restaurant and property owner Syed Ali Sherazi said. It will serve Indian and Mediterranean dishes.<\/p>\n<p>The property was sold for $900,000 by Aung Investments LLC, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/19JJD6RdwQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The James Balliet Property Group<\/a> and online county records.<\/p>\n<p>The new restaurant will operate 11 a.m. to midnight on weekdays and 7-1 a.m. on weekends, Sherazi said.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiz Kidz cheesesteak restaurant closed in December following insufficient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/01\/16\/cheesesteak-restaurant-closes-in-allentown-bethlehem-spot-to-reopen-wiz-kidz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sales and foot traffic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Wiz Kidz property in Allentown will soon come back to life with an Indian fusion restaurant.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,60,433,182,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-249486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","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\/249486","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=249486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}