Benner Street Restaurant

What happened after

Closed May 2014 on owners' retirement after 15 years; became Saranda's on Broadway (opened late Nov 2014), which itself has since closed - the space is now Game Time (as of March 2025).

Closure date on record: 2014-05

What happened on the show

During the sixth season Robert Irvine reached Benner Street Restaurant in Bethlehem, run by Dorothy and Thom, on Broadway. The durable record holds few specifics of the Benner Street Restaurant visit, and Wikipedia gives this Bethlehem episode no summary. The show's habit held at Benner Street Restaurant, so Irvine would have tasted the menu, gone through the Bethlehem kitchen, confronted the owners, and reset the Bethlehem room across two days on a tight budget. Without fabricating what Bethlehem never recorded of Benner Street Restaurant, we hold to what the record supports. We would rather report Benner Street Restaurant thin than dress its Bethlehem hour in details no source ever kept. The Bethlehem space has cycled through several businesses since, all documented by independent local outlets in the aftermath.

After the cameras left

Benner Street closed in May 2014 when the owners retired after fifteen years. The Broadway space then became Saranda's on Broadway, which opened in late November 2014 and has itself since closed, and the location is now Game Time as of March 2025. Independent local outlets Lehigh Valley Live and WFMZ, not reality-show trackers, covered the changes, which puts the record at high confidence. A fifteen-year family restaurant gave way to a chain of successors at the same address.