A restaurant that replaced an iconic breakfast and lunch spot in downtown Bethlehem has closed roughly 7 months after opening.<\/p>\n
Bilal\u2019s Breakfast & Sandwiches, which opened in the spot formerly occupied by Darto\u2019s restaurant at 46 W. North St., permanently closed around mid-December, according to former manager Server Candir, who said restaurant owner Bilal Bozkoc confirmed the closure to her. During its operating hours<\/a> Monday afternoon, the restaurant had a \u201cSorry We\u2019re Closed\u201d sign in the window.<\/p>\n Candir said she didn\u2019t know for sure the reason for the closure, but she felt the restaurant didn\u2019t have enough foot traffic.<\/p>\n The restaurant opened in May<\/a> and served a similar breakfast menu as Darto\u2019s, alongside Mediterranean-style dishes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Darto\u2019s closed in March after operating for more than 30 years. It opened in 1984 under the family of Mike and Mary Lou Dartouzos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A restaurant that replaced an iconic breakfast and lunch spot in downtown Bethlehem has closed roughly 7 months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,60,182,434,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-74659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-northampton-county","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\/74659","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=74659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}