{"id":71517,"date":"2025-12-27T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71517\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:13:22","slug":"downtown-easton-bar-closing-for-good-after-more-than-30-years-owners-announce-last-call-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71517\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Easton bar closing for good after more than 30 years. Owners announce last call date."},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother\u2019s Bar and Grille<\/a>, a Downtown Easton fixture for more than three decades, will close permanently at midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

The bar at 3 Lehns Court off Centre Square announced the closure on its Facebook page. <\/p>\n

\u201cSaying goodbye is hard to do. We have difficult news to share as we approach the end of the year,\u201d the post stated. \u201cWe will be closing our doors for the last time at midnight on New Year\u2019s Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement thanked staff and patrons for their support over the years. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to thank all of our staff and our patrons who have been with us … The memories and friendships we made over the years will last forever. We\u2019re gonna miss you all. Come hang out and share memories with us for our last weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owners Philip, Joseph, and Michael Simonetta, three brothers who have operated the establishment since acquiring it more than 15 years ago, recently expanded their Downtown Easton presence. In June 2025, the trio purchased another local institution, the neighboring Pearly Baker\u2019s Ale House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bar gained a measure of fame beyond the Lehigh Valley when it served as the exterior of the Florentine bar in the 1997 film \u201cThe Florentine.\u201d The movie was shot over five weeks in the region, with most scenes filmed in Bethlehem and Easton. Mount Vernon was used for interior shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Bar and Grille, a Downtown Easton fixture for more than three decades, will close permanently at midnight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[14496,11112,153,155,154,5816,37543,60,2265,37544],"class_list":{"0":"post-71517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-beer","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-brewery","14":"tag-brewing","15":"tag-business","16":"tag-finance","17":"tag-pliny-the-elder"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71517","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=71517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}