{"id":30133,"date":"2025-11-10T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30133\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:57:24","slug":"nationally-recognized-restaurant-chain-ayat-closes-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30133\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationally recognized restaurant chain Ayat closes in Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Palestinian-cuisine restaurant chain, recognized by The New York Times as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/04\/06\/loves-west-end-taproom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of New York\u2019s top 100 restaurants<\/a>, has permanently closed its Allentown location.\n<\/p>\n<p>Signage on the restaurant Ayat\u2019s entrance on Monday announced the closure at 1243 W. Tilghman St., just over two years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cw6E_yoOSvL\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after it originally opened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chain didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>It primarily operates in New York but also intends to open locations in Philadelphia, Texas and Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ayatnyc.com\/view-all-locations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the restaurant website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The closest Ayat restaurant from the Lehigh Valley is now in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Palestinian-cuisine restaurant chain, recognized by The New York Times as one of New York\u2019s top 100 restaurants,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-30133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-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\/30133","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=30133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}