The holidays are coming. Whether you are crazy about baking, shopping, decorating or all of the above, a new restaurant in Northampton County wants to reduce your cooking burden and help you recharge.
Tatamy Takeout, a takeout store offering customized food and drinks for breakfast, lunch and dinner, will open on Monday at 70 S. Eighth St. in Tatamy.
Customers will be able to place orders online, over the phone, or in restaurants through cashiers or self-service kiosks.
Developed an application for the guests, you can download each order and get discounts, you can also set a specific time to pick up the goods. Customers will receive their orders through counter pick-up, curbside pick-up or door-to-door delivery.
Mike Lordi, Operations Director of Tatamy Takeout, said: “You can specify when you plan to pick up the food. We can start preparing the food at an appropriate time to ensure that the food is hot and fresh when you pick it up.” This is also very convenient for customers who order. For example, maybe you just want to pick up a cup of coffee in the morning. You can order it the night before and set it to 7:05 in the morning or any time you want to pick it up. We will You are ready, it will be a very fast process."
Building and restaurant owner Bill Farrell hired Applebee's long-term manager and owner of the strategic restaurant consulting firm Lordi to open Tatamy Takeout.
Lodi designed the restaurant, ordered kitchen equipment and hired about 14 employees. He has also developed a menu, which includes rotating soups, salads, hard and soft tacos, quesadillas, burgers, specialty hot dogs, etc.
Breakfast is served every morning from 7 am to 11 am, including about 10 bagels, egg sandwiches (with optional meat and cheese) and about 12 sweet and salty crepes, including Nutella, bananas, and strawberries delivered from New York every day Shortbread, ham, cheese and caprese.
Other menu highlights will include sandwiches such as cheese steak, Italian hero and Buffalo chicken sandwiches; hot dogs such as nachos, reuben and memphis (applewood smoked bacon, shredded cheddar cheese and barbecue sauce); and disco fries and Mozzarella cheese fries and other side dishes.
Ten burgers with regular or gluten-free bread, including French dip (roast beef and sweet yellow onion dipped in au jus sauce, topped with provolone cheese) and breakfast (American cheese, pork roll, bacon, tomato Sauce, etc.) -medium egg).
"Our burgers will be high-quality and will never be frozen," Lodi said. "They will also be 4 ounce patties — not huge, 8 or 12 ounce patties — because we want to be fast, convenient, and delicious. Customers can order a double burger, but we designed The menu allows everything to cook in 5 minutes or less."
For customers looking for a cup of joe, the company has partnered with Fieldstone Coffee Roasters in Ottsville to provide four types of hot drip coffee (blended coffee, decaffeinated, seasonal selection and fair trade organic varieties), two cold brew options and Two nitro options.
The business hours are from 7 am to 8:30 pm daily. Information: 484-837-1177; tatamytakeout.com.
Some other fresh restaurants are also promoting Lehigh Valley's dining scene:
First, Coplay Eatery opened on November 22 at Chestnut St. 1214 in Coplay, serving casual American breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The renovated corner property used to be Poly's family restaurant, which closed in 2020 after operating for more than a decade.
The BYOB restaurant can accommodate approximately 120 customers and is run by business partners Patrick Sibri and James Gibbons.
Customers can choose from a variety of fresh customized dishes, including burgers, cheese steaks, soups, salads and chicken, steak and seafood platters. There are also international specialties such as gyro platter, parmesan veal and patties.
Breakfast items, including French toast, omelette and corned beef chowder, are available all day, and the new espresso machine can brew specialty coffee. Information: 610-440-0293.
Secondly, Carl's Corner is a popular cheese steak and branch. It has been operating at 2 W. Elizabeth Ave. in Bethlehem for nearly three years. On Wednesday, it held a trial of its second branch at No. 848 Nazareth Park in Lower Nazareth. Open.
The new 30-seat shopping mall restaurant offers Carl’s complete menu, which includes steak sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs, chicken wings, hot and cold submarines, burritos, salads and “fried delicacies” such as breaded mushrooms, curly fries and dumpling.
The company’s co-owner Cindy Weintraub said that the company is hiring full-time and part-time employees for these two locations. At least for the first month, the Lower Nazareth restaurant will be open for limited hours, including no dinner on Friday and Saturday nights. service.
Customers are advised to check the Carl's Corner Nazareth Facebook page and/or call the merchant (610-994-3384) before visiting to ensure that the restaurant is open.
Cindy and her husband Matt took over the 30-year-old Carl's in 2018 and decided to expand the business to establish a training program for people with intellectual disabilities who are interested in learning all aspects of the catering industry. The training program is expected to debut in the spring. Information: carlscornersteaks.com.
Finally, the new year will bring two new tenants to the Stefko Boulevard shopping mall in Bethlehem.
This Is Burrito is a fast casual restaurant specializing in customized burrito, and the most advanced plasma collection site B Positive will open in 2022 in a historic shopping center in 1800. According to the Colliers International Allentown office that facilitated the transaction Vice President Scott Horner said that the Stefko Boulevard block is located between Jill and Irene Streets.
This is the burrito, covering an area of 2,000 square feet. It was previously the location of J's Steaks & Subs (moved a few blocks north in 2017). The owner Karen Lin said that it will resemble the popular chain of burrito restaurants. Way of operation.
Diners will use proteins such as beef and chicken as well as lettuce, salsa, cheese and other ingredients to customize their orders. Tacos and other Mexican delicacies will also be offered.
If you are looking for a new pair of shoes, one shoe store has recently opened and another has recently moved.
Fashionable and comfortable footwear brand The Extra Pair by Sole Provisions opened its first Lehigh Valley store in 16 stores across the country on November 16th, located in the promenade store in Sole Provision, Upper Sole.
This store between Dandelion and Chico's will hold a grand opening from December 11th to 12th, offering gifts, discounts, sweepstakes and other activities.
"Extra Pair offers a rich collection of men's and women's shoes. This is what we have been looking for. We are very happy to welcome you to the shopping center!" Krista Berardelli, Marketing Director of The Promenade Shops, said in the press release.
In addition, Red Wing Shoes, a 116-year-old company, moved from The Shops at Cedar Point on Cedar Crest Boulevard in Allentown on Thursday to 935 Airport Center Drive, Suite 1828 in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, according to store employees.
The central space of the airport used to be the last Zoup in Lehigh Valley! The restaurant closed in September 2019 after 10 years of operation.
Red Wing is a family business founded by Charles Beckman in Red Wing, Minnesota in 1905, and has more than 500 branches across the country.
In addition to Red Wing Shoes, its brand also includes Irish Setter (Irish Setter), high-quality shoes with on-site experience, allowing sports enthusiasts and workers to "do whatever they want"; Vasque, shoes designed with innovative materials, for hiking Provide support for tourists, backpackers and campers; WORX, which introduces footwear to ensure the safety and comfort of workers in the service, production, transportation and warehousing industries; and SB Foot Tanning Co., the master tanner for footwear and other goods Produce durable leather. Information: redwingshoes.com.
As my colleague Jennifer Sheehan recently reported, a new place has been opened in South Whitehall Township to get your holiday cards, gifts and more.
Norman's Hallmark is the independent owner of the largest Gold Crown Hallmark store in the United States. It recently opened its newest location in the Crest Plaza shopping center on North Cedar Crest Boulevard in South White Hall, Twp. The new store marks the regional expansion of card and specialty gift retailers, adding existing locations at Allentown South Hill Shopping Centre, Lehigh Valley Shopping Centre in Whitehall, and Easton Palmer Park Shopping Centre.
This store offers a full range of Hallmark products, cards and souvenirs for all occasions, as well as fashion accessories, books, stationery, games, home decoration, sweets and food. Information: normanshallmark.com
I will end a few closes:
First, after 20 years of operation, Ahhat Market closed at the Allentown West Allen Street Mall at the end of November.
“I asked my wholesaler to cancel the lease when I last renewed the contract. They don’t want to do it because they like the area,” the owner George Ahart told The Morning Call in early November. "Then they were sold to [United Natural Foods, Inc., a natural and organic food company], which did not want to lease or renew."
The owner, George Ahart, also had to close his store in southern Bethlehem in April.
He said that over the years, the building has become structurally unsound, and his attempts to find a buyer were unsuccessful. In the end, the owner of Bethlehem found Juan Diaz, the owner of Ctown Supermarket, who bought the building for $2.3 million and planned to renovate and reopen it as an ideal food basket.
After the closure of Bethlehem and Allentown, only the Bath and Blakeslee stores remain open.
Finally, The Hamilton Kitchen & Bar is a 7-year-old restaurant that was once regarded as the key to revitalizing the catering industry in central Allentown, but before the launch of the new dining and entertainment concept Sports & Social, the restaurant closed permanently on Tuesday . It will open at its location in 2022.
According to a message on the Hamilton Hotel Facebook page, the gift card will be redeemed at The Dime restaurant and bar in the Renaissance Allentown Hotel.
Sports & Social is a division of The Cordish Companies headquartered in Baltimore, which also operates Xfinity Live! And life! The Casino & Hotel in the South Philadelphia Sports Center is scheduled to open in the spring on the corner of Seventh Street and Hamilton Street.
The 8,000-square-foot venue will provide live music and entertainment, as well as watching sports events through Sports Watch on match days.
Retail Watch appears every weekend, tracking retail and restaurant news in Lehigh Valley. Contact Ryan Kneller at 610-820-6597 or retailwatch@mcall.com.