Third and Walnut Bar Closed

Third and Walnut Bar has closed. A sign in front of the door says it hopes to reopen soon but gives no reason for the closure.

A call to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board was not returned Tuesday but according to a report in The Reporter, a state official told the publication the bar's liquor license was not renewed.

The Times Herald reports that a brief was issued May 2 supporting a 2011 decision to deny the renewal of the restaurant’s liquor license.

Third and Walnut has made headlines in the recent past, including two incidents in December.

Lansdale police say two brothers attacked an officer after he stopped them as they were leaving the bar on Dec. 7. According to an affidavit, Richard Noboa was stopped after allegedly speeding out of the Third and Walnut Bar lot around 2 a.m., nearly hitting a police car and driving down the wrong side of the street. 

The officer suffered a fractured nose, a fractured hand, a contusion to his head, facial trauma and other injuries and required hospitalization.

In a second incident later that month, a 40-year-old Lansdale man allegedly punched someone inside the bar and later accosted him at knifepoint on North Broad Street, police said at the time.