{"id":313026,"date":"2026-10-23T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:50:10","slug":"easton-restaurant-damaged-by-fire-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313026\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton restaurant damaged by fire to reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Valley breakfast and lunch restaurant has set a reopening date after damage from a fire forced it to close.<\/p>\n<p>The State Cafe and Grill will have a full reopening Thursday at 14-16 S. Fifth St. in Easton, owner Bill Sneeringer said, following its soft opening this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant closed in February due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/02\/20\/firefighters-battling-3-alarm-fire-at-easton-hotel-at-least-one-injured\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire at the Hotel Hampton building<\/a> at 462 Northampton St., causing the restaurant basement to flood with water runoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/10\/13\/back-together-lehigh-valley-restaurant-damaged-by-nearby-hotel-fire-8-months-ago-reopening-soon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Some of the changes<\/a> since the fire include new cold brews and physical work like new paint and bathroom renovations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh Valley breakfast and lunch restaurant has set a reopening date after damage from a fire forced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,2181,6290,182,434,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-313026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-easton","tag-easton-area","tag-local-news","tag-northampton-county","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\/313026","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=313026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}