{"id":319779,"date":"2026-11-02T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319779\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:16:22","slug":"historic-lehigh-valley-bar-and-restaurant-to-reopen-this-week-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319779\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Lehigh Valley bar and restaurant to reopen this week after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A historic restaurant and bar will finally reopen this week after a fire forced it to close in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Iron Mule Restaurant &amp; Bar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1JoV5MbLj6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced online<\/a> it will reopen Thursday at 831 S. Delaware Drive in Williams Township. A fire forced it to close <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/08\/21\/historic-bar-and-restaurant-to-reopen-following-fire-in-the-lehigh-valley-iron-mule-williams-township\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame Iron Mule you know and love, with a fresh new look and plenty of memories waiting to be made. You stuck by us through it all, and now it\u2019s time to celebrate,\u201d the announcement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Iron Mule building was constructed in 1782 and previously operated as the Black Horse Tavern.<\/p>\n<p>Another Easton-area establishment, Williams Family Restaurant, closed indefinitely after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/10\/12\/lehigh-valley-restaurant-closed-indefinitely-after-fire-incredibly-difficult\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fire last month in Palmer Township<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A historic restaurant and bar will finally reopen this week after a fire forced it to close in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319780,"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-319779","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\/319779","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=319779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}