{"id":99829,"date":"2026-01-29T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99829\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:42:10","slug":"north-street-cafe-on-the-way-following-closure-at-former-dartos-property-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99829\/","title":{"rendered":"North Street Cafe on the way following closure at former Darto’s property in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new cafe is on the way at the former Darto\u2019s property in Bethlehem, less than a month after the previous restaurant\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n

Rogelio Lazaro and his brother Rodrigo have signed a lease to open North Street Cafe at 46 W. North St. in Bethlehem, where they\u2019ll serve dishes like pancakes, omelets, burgers, wraps, soups, salads and weekly specials.<\/p>\n

The cafe replaces Bilal\u2019s Breakfast & Sandwiches<\/a>, which opened in May and closed December.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels nice, yeah,\u201d Rogelio Lazaro said of opening the cafe, a dream for him and his brother. \u201cI know it\u2019s a lot of work that we need to do but we are excited and we\u2019re happy to see what we can do here for the community, and share back with food and do our best for the town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogelio said they tentatively plan to open in early March, and that they\u2019ll operate 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. all week.<\/p>\n

The brothers are leasing from Mike and Stephanie Dartouzos, who own the property and operated Darto\u2019s before it closed in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mike said he knew the Lazaros as customers when Darto\u2019s was still open, and noted their experience with breakfast and lunch \u2014 \u201cthat\u2019s what we thrived on for 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very optimistic that they\u2019re going to do well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new cafe is on the way at the former Darto\u2019s property in Bethlehem, less than a month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-99829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","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\/99829","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=99829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99829\/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=99829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}