was announced in August<\/a> that the business was hiring to fill all positions and was scheduled to open in mid-September.<\/p>\nOfficials say that now has been moved to October.<\/p>\n
Okatshe is connected to The Moxy Allentown Downtown Hotel at 947 W. Hamilton St., adjacent to the Archer Music Hall.<\/p>\n
Intimate setting already in place<\/p>\n
A visit to the restaurant Friday revealed an intimate setting, with table and booth seating.<\/p>\n
Okatshe will be a modern take on traditional Japanese izakaya,.<\/p>\n
Food Network \u201cIron Chef\u201d champion Jose Garces<\/p>\n
Okatshe will be a modern take on traditional Japanese izakaya, which is a casual, social Japanese bar that serves a wide variety of small, shareable dishes along with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.<\/p>\n
The restaurant will feature Japanese small plates, sushi and sashimi, with a lively cocktail and Japanese whisky bar.<\/p>\n
Okatshe will be across the street from Rosa Blanca, a Cuban caf\u00e9 and rum bar that Garces opened in March.<\/p>\n
Garces debuted Okatshe in the Tropicana Atlantic City in 2017. The restaurant, which closed in 2021, is certain to become a vital component of Allentown\u2019s dining community.<\/p>\n
Garces states that the city\u2019s renaissance is reminiscent of Philadelphia\u2019s in the early 2000s, a prospect he finds fertile and exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis harkens back to when I first got to Philadelphia in 2001 and saw an opportunity to create special dining experiences for a market that I felt was right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Mada aite imasen. The English translation as it applies to Okatshe, a Japanese restaurant\/bar planned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,1011,1012,120,1004,1005,1006,1008,1007,539,1009,1010],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-japanese-restaurant","tag-allentown-japanese-restaurant-opening","tag-allentown-news","tag-archer-music-hall","tag-jose-garces","tag-jose-garces-restaurant-opening-allentown","tag-okatshe-allentown-opening","tag-okatshe-japanese-restaurant","tag-pa","tag-rosa-blanca","tag-the-moxy-allentown-downtown-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","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=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}