{"id":61488,"date":"2025-12-15T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61488\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:59:08","slug":"grandma-chicken-pica-pollo-to-open-second-location-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61488\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandma Chicken Pica Pollo to open second location in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/author\/constantine\/\" class=\"flex-shrink-0 relative z-10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/constantine-332x332.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  alt=\"Constantine Lambridis\" class=\"avatar avatar-300 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-300 alignnone photo rounded-full w-12 h-12 object-cover ring-2 ring-white dark:ring-gray-800\"\/>                                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                    Updated Monday, December 15, 2025, 11:45 am                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/author\/constantine\/\" class=\"flex-shrink-0 relative z-10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/constantine-72x72.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\"  alt=\"Constantine Lambridis\" class=\"avatar avatar-64 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-64 alignnone photo rounded-full w-8 h-8 object-cover ring-2 ring-white dark:ring-gray-800\"\/>                                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2__1_-scaled.jpg\" class=\"w-full h-full object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Grandma Pica Polla\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>                                <\/p>\n<p>                                        Grandma Pica Polla (Photo: Constantine Lambridis \/ Lehigh Daily)                                    <\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Grandma Chicken Pica Pollo will be opening a new location on 306 Broadhead Ave. in South Side Bethlehem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s new location is across from the Comfort Suites and on the last block before the Hill to Hill Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The fried chicken restaurant known for its authentic Dominican flavoring and seasoning is expected to open its second location in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s first location on 624 N Maxwell Street in Allentown opened its doors two years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gomez said he is anticipating more foot traffic as the restaurant sets up shop on a busy street in Bethlehem, especially with Lehigh University close by.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brand has picked up and the popularity with the Dominican fried chicken has grown massively,\u201d owner Jorge Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez also noted the presence of other fried chicken options in South Bethlehem, but said he believes the restaurant\u2019s heightened promotion will draw customers to the new location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(We) doubled-down on organizing efforts to grow the brand,\u201d Gomez said \u201c(We) feel like it\u2019s just a matter of the public just being able to taste the chicken and then the rest does the work itself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown location is open on weekdays and Saturdays, with the exception of Tuesday, from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. and on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. This schedule will likely remain the same for the Bethlehem location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighdaily.com\/author\/constantine\/\" class=\"flex-shrink-0 group block leading-none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/constantine-144x144.jpg\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\"  alt=\"Constantine Lambridis\" class=\"avatar avatar-96 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-96 alignnone photo block rounded-full w-20 h-20 md:w-14 md:h-14 object-cover ring-2 ring-white dark:ring-[#2a2a2a] shadow-lg group-hover:ring-brand transition-all duration-200\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-sm text-text-secondary dark:text-gray-400 mt-1.5 leading-relaxed\">Constantine Lambridis is a recent graduate of Lehigh University with a double major in Journalism and History. At Lehigh, he served as the Sports Editor and Managing Editor of Multimedia at the school&#8217;s student-run newspaper. He is passionate about covering stories at the heart of the community and is an ardent believer in the impact of local journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Monday, December 15, 2025, 11:45 am Grandma Pica Polla (Photo: Constantine Lambridis \/ Lehigh Daily) BETHLEHEM, Pa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-61488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61488","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=61488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}