ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Two pals simply opened up a brand new bar and restaurant in downtown Allentown on Thursday. If whiskey is your factor, you’re going to adore it.

The Pennsylvania Rye Firm is situated on the website of the previous Grain restaurant on the five hundred block of Hamilton Road.

Co-owners Jesse Haik and Dan Gonzalez met a few decade in the past working at different eating places in downtown Allentown.

“We wished to fill voids available in the market, and whiskey is unquestionably a void within the downtown market,” mentioned Haik.

They’re providing greater than 70 Ryes, Bourbons, and Scotch’s, with an emphasis on Pennsylvania Rye.

“We do a have an honest quantity of Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey, Dad’s Hat being certainly one of them. Now we have additionally – very native – Eight Oaks in the home,” Gonzalez mentioned.

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“Now we have home tonic, home ginger beer, we’re additionally doing in-house grapefruit soda for palomas,” Gonzalez mentioned.

It is becoming that the restaurant is on Hamilton Road.

Pennsylvania is definitely thought of the birthplace of American whiskey, with manufacturing transferring away from the state following the 1794 Whiskey Rebel, which was in response to Alexander’s Hamilton’s whiskey excise tax.

You’ll discover a fairly apparent reference inside – a photograph of Hamilton mounted the wrong way up.

“It was obtained very poorly and other people within the space, in addition to having acts of violence, took their Hamilton’s and turned it the wrong way up,” Haik mentioned.

The 2-story, 6,800 square-foot bar additionally has a scratch-made kitchen, providing small plates at reasonably priced costs.

“I have been doing this for 22 years. I’ve all the time wished to personal a restaurant. It means the world to me. We’re keen to courageous the wild even with COVID, and probably different pandemics. We’re additionally opening a retail retailer and we’re doing to-go meals,” Haik mentioned.

The bottle store can be coming someday this fall, subsequent door to the bar on the former Cork and Cage.

Pennsylvania Rye Firm is open Wednesday via Saturday from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. and Sunday from 3 p.m. to midnight.