{"id":321205,"date":"2026-11-04T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321205\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:38:09","slug":"lehigh-valley-mexican-restaurant-damaged-in-storm-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321205\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Mexican restaurant damaged in storm reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mexican restaurant has reopened months after severe weather caused it to close in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>La Cocina de la Abuela announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1LsXfyCbGQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a grand reopening<\/a> for Oct. 12 at 127 S. Third St (Route 309) in Coopersburg. It had been closed since March, when a severe storm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/03\/17\/lehigh-valley-restaurants-closed-storm-wind-blows-off-roof-gofundme-started\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blew the roof off its building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wait is over!\u201d the announcement said. \u201cLa Cocina de la Abuela is reopening its doors \u2026 and we can\u2019t wait to welcome you back! Enjoy the authentic flavors of Mexico, from delicious tacos to our traditional pozole with tostadas. Every dish is made to bring you a taste of home!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant shares the building with The New Santiago\u2019s Restaurant, which also closed in March due to storm damage and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/07\/16\/lehigh-valley-restaurant-closed-after-wind-blew-off-roof-has-announced-is-set-to-reopen-after-repairs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reopened in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The March 16 storm brought strong winds to the Lehigh Valley, downing numerous trees around the region, blowing roofs off some structures, and leading to widespread power outages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mexican restaurant has reopened months after severe weather caused it to close in the Lehigh Valley. La&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321206,"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-321205","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\/321205","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=321205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}