{"id":320607,"date":"2026-11-04T00:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320607\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T00:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:20:06","slug":"its-going-to-be-an-exciting-place-downtown-reading-food-court-becomes-food-hall-at-35-with-new-restaurants-entertainment-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320607\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s going to be an exciting place\u2019: Downtown Reading food court becomes Food Hall at 35 with new restaurants, entertainment | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2014 There\u2019s pizza at one counter, wings at another and more food on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Reading\u2019s food court has a new name: Food Hall at 35.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe created that to make it more of a focal point and more of a destination spot for everyone to come,\u201d says Michelle Lopez, Shuman Development Group property manager.<\/p>\n<p>The space on North Sixth Street, just a few steps from the Berks County Services Center, started as a place for new businesses to grow. Some moved into bigger locations.<\/p>\n<p>Now, established restaurants are joining the mix, including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/area\/berks\/reading-area\/made-with-love\/article_697913f3-7812-4b7a-8f4e-e3fbfd717950.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chef David\u2019s third location<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have D\u2019Flordeliz, she\u2019s coming aboard. She\u2019s doing breakfast, lunch and dinner,\u201d Lopez says. \u201cWe have a sushi tenant that\u2019s coming in. They\u2019re going to be doing sushi and poke bowls. We have ROQ Wings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To give customers a schedule they can count on, management negotiated with the businesses to stay open until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a stage for weekend entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to do jazz, we want to do mariachi, we want to do open mic night, we want to do poetry slams,\u201d Lopez says.<\/p>\n<p>More restaurants are coming. For now, this is a soft opening, and a grand opening date hasn\u2019t been set yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have live music, we\u2019re going to have the Ugly Oyster here, serving drinks,\u201d Lopez says. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely going to be a destination, it\u2019s going to be an exciting place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2014 There\u2019s pizza at one counter, wings at another and more food on the way. Downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[130228,92073,130224,7420,42908,130227,130225,72192,130226,128,130,129,51046],"class_list":["post-320607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-destination","tag-downtown-reading","tag-food-hall-at-35","tag-jazz","tag-live-entertainment","tag-local-dining","tag-mariachi","tag-open-mic","tag-poetry-slam","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-restaurant-opening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320607","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=320607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}