{"id":45726,"date":"2025-11-26T23:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45726\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:20:40","slug":"thanksgiving-eve-buzz-restaurants-bustling-with-old-friends-and-holiday-spirit-homepage-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45726\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Eve buzz: Restaurants bustling with old friends and holiday spirit | Homepage Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Eve is here! Restaurants across our area said it is always a busy night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The energy is definitely high with people back in town wanting to meet old friends and we&#8217;re a great gathering place,&#8221; said Rich Fegley, one of the owners of Fegley&#8217;s Brew Works. &#8220;Here we just make sure we&#8217;re fully stocked and we&#8217;re going to be staffed. Plenty of bartenders on to handle the bar service cause it will definitely be busy downstairs,&#8221; said Fegley.<\/p>\n<p>He said there are also several pool tables for people to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been here for over 27 years, so it&#8217;s sort of a place to go on Thanksgiving Eve,&#8221; said Fegley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Thanksgiving Eve is a solid night for us and certainly a lot of restaurants and bars around town,&#8221; said Ed Hanna, owner of Union and Finch in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Hanna said the restaurant is fully staffed and ready to go from the kitchen to servers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll see a good crowd of diners tonight for sure,&#8221; said Hanna.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is always an energetic Thanksgiving Eve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are looking forward to the holiday and it&#8217;s important that you know that you give them an atmosphere where they feel welcomed obviously, but some are energetic that they come and just hang out and kick back a little bit,&#8221; said Hanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Eve is here! Restaurants across our area said it is always a busy night. &#8220;The energy is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,805],"class_list":["post-45726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45726","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=45726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}