{"id":67905,"date":"2025-12-22T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67905\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:43:07","slug":"lehigh-valley-mexican-restaurant-closes-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67905\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Mexican restaurant closes its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casa Catrina, which announced a temporary closure earlier this month, will not reopen, its owners said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter much consideration, we want to share that Casa Catrina will be closing permanently,\u201d the restaurant said Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CasaCatrinaMex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a social media post.<\/a> \u201cDespite our best efforts to reopen and continue serving our community, circumstances have led us to make this difficult decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humberto and Elia Chavolla, who owned the former Fiesta Ole in Emmaus, opened Casa Catrina in 2020 at 1905 Brookside Road in Lower Macungie Township.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u00a0want to express our deepest gratitude to all our customers, friends, and supporters who have been with us over these six wonderful years of operation,\u201d the couple said. \u201cYour loyalty, kindness, and encouragement meant the world to us and made Casa Catrina a special place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casa Catrina, which announced a temporary closure earlier this month, will not reopen, its owners said. \u201cAfter much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,433,182,2754,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-67905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-lower-macungie-township","tag-pennsylvania","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\/67905","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=67905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}