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UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. – A popular restaurant chain is planning to open its first Lehigh Valley location next week at The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley.

Turning Point, an award-winning breakfast, lunch and brunch restaurant with more than 20 locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, will hold soft opening on Monday, Sept. 18, at the Upper Saucon Township shopping center, according to a company spokesperson.

A grand opening celebration will be held 9-10 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, with the ribbon-cutting ceremony taking place at 9:30 a.m.

The 4,449-square-foot restaurant will be located near UBreakIFix and Playa Bowls at the open-air center, 2845 Center Valley Parkway.

“We are incredibly happy to welcome Turning Point to The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley,” said Natalia Stezenko, general manager of the shopping center. “The addition of this well-known and very popular regional eatery is something we are sure our shoppers will embrace and yet another step in elevating our rapidly growing tenant roster. Significant and very positive changes have been taking place at The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley; in recent months, we have added a number of exceptional new tenants, the beginning of many changes yet to come.”

Turning Point, “using exceptional ingredients to deliver carefully crafted menu selections that are made-to-order and delivered in a warm and inviting setting,” offers pancakes such as cinnamon roll and peppermint hot chocolate (hot cocoa cakes topped with crushed peppermint, marshmallows and a mint chocolate cream drizzle); waffles such as southern chicken and tropical crunch (bananas, strawberries, mango, granola and warm strawberry reduction); omelets such as Key West shrimp and smoked salmon; and sandwiches such as a chicken pesto panini, Pavo Cubano and roadhouse bacon stack (triple stack grilled cheese on sourdough bread with smokehouse aioli, cheddar jack, thick crispy bacon, caramelized onions, tomato and baby spinach).

Other “eggstraordinary dishes” include a classic pork roll “Sammy” (toasted bagel, Taylor pork roll, two over-hard eggs and American cheese with side of potatoes or citrus-tossed greens), Wilbur skillet (skillet of potatoes, crushed bacon, avocado, diced tomato, jack cheese and two eggs your way with English muffin) and barbacoa Benedict (cornbread, beef barbacoa, sliced avocado and caramelized onions, topped with two poached eggs and honey sriracha hollandaise; served with choice of citrus dressed mixed greens or breakfast potatoes).

Customers also can enjoy French press coffees, including Hawaiian Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain blends, along with other specialty beverages such as cold-brew iced coffee, old-fashioned milkshakes, “Tropical Bliss” fruit smoothies, “Annie’s Lemonade” (frozen pink lemonade blended with strawberries), “Just Beet It’ juice (red beets, carrot, orange, apple, pineapple and ginger) and espresso drinks such as a French toast latte and salted caramel mocha-chino.

“This will be our first restaurant in the Lehigh Valley area, something we are very excited about,” said Kirk Ruoff, founder and CEO of Turning Point. “We absolutely love the energy of the shopping center, and the surrounding retailers and restaurants will make wonderful co-tenants. Based on the popularity of our dishes in other areas throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, we are sure our breakfast and lunch menu will resonate with the residents of Center Valley and the surrounding areas, and we look forward to welcoming each and every one of them as they become regular customers.”

Turning Point currently has eight Pennsylvania restaurants, including locations in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

The restaurants’ culinary teams cook the meals to order, making it possible to make modifications for diet or personal preference to any dish.

Other menu highlights include salads such as “Martha’s Vineyard” (mixed greens, grilled chicken, seasonal berries, mango, toasted coconut and honey walnuts) and starters such as avocado toast, turkey chili and bacon lollipops (brown sugar-dipped, smoked bacon wrapped over a slow-roasted skewered apple).

Turning Point will join more than a half dozen other Promenade Shops restaurants, including Bar Louie, Kome Fine Japanese Cuisine, Melt, Playa Bowls, Red Robin, Starbucks, Top Cut, Torre and White Orchids Thai Cuisine.

The restaurant also will join a slew of other new tenants at The Promenade Shops.

Businesses setting up shop in 2023 include FD Market, a sustainable goods shop and zero-waste refillery; Handmade Mystic – Healing Crystals & Jewelry, selling healing crystals, hand-crafted jewelry and more; Batch Microcreamery, offering super premium, hand-crafted ice cream and other chilled treats such as floats, milkshakes and sundaes; and Love Obsessed, a trendy boutique offering women’s clothing, jewelry, accessories and unique gift items.

Additionally, The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley’s new Promenade Pop-Up Shop is experiencing great momentum in helping local entrepreneurs and established online brands build a market in the brick-and-mortar world.

Sweet Diehl Boutique, a women’s fashion boutique founded by local entrepreneur Andrea Diehl and the center’s first Promenade Pop-Up Shop tenant, had such success that it has signed a year-long lease and will move into its own more permanent location, between L.L.Bean and Sweet & Sassy, in October.

Following close on its footsteps, four additional pop-up tenants – Spoon + Salt, Ivy & Ink, Threads by Gram and Blake Jewelers – have reserved spaces in the Promenade Pop-Up Shop from early October through the end of the year.

Another center vacancy also is being filled. Club Champion, a custom golf club fitting company with more than 120 locations worldwide, is set to open its first Lehigh Valley location in the fourth quarter of 2023 in a 2,668-square-foot space between Torre and GailGray Home Furnishings & Design.