<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0EBG0P_0qmZMAtU00" style="display:none" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0EBG0P_0qmZMAtU00" width="2000" height="1333" > HAMBURG, New York – A New York restaurant on the shores of Lake Erie reopened after a lake-effect snowstorm covered the business in an “ice castle coating.” Hoak’s Lakeshore Restaurant in <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/06/real-estate/buffalo-named-hottest-housing-market-in-2024-report/" rel="nofollow"> Hamburg, New York, a Buffalo suburb, </a> closed on Sunday amid a travel ban during a major winter storm. Areas of western New York saw more than 2 feet of snow, including 41.3 inches in Hamburg. Winds and snow covered the business on the northeastern shores of Lake Erie with massive icicles and a thick coating of ice accretion. The restaurant wrote on Instagram it remained closed on Sunday after “getting a small dose of an ice castle coating.” A photo showed ice covering the business’s railings and foot-long icicles dropping from the roof. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> On Monday, the full ice castle transformation was complete with icicles from nearly every building surface. In a video shared by Richard Hulburd on X, formerly known as Twitter, he said he felt like he “walked into the movie ‘Frozen.’” <figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0hSQg1_0qmZMAtU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0hSQg1_0qmZMAtU00" width="2000" height="1333" ><figcaption>Ice coats Hoak’s Lakeshore Restaurant in Hamburg, New York on Jan. 14, 2024. @weather_buffalo via Storyful </figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4VxOL0_0qmZMAtU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4VxOL0_0qmZMAtU00" width="1000" height="1494" ><figcaption>The restaurant was covered in icicles as heavy snow fell. @weather_buffalo via Storyful </figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4dncA7_0qmZMAtU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4dncA7_0qmZMAtU00" width="1000" height="1494" ><figcaption>Footsteps in the snow around Hoak’s restaurant. @weather_buffalo via Storyful </figcaption></figure> However, despite the newly added icy exterior, the business was open to customers on Monday. “Our ice castle today from our first storm of 2024,” the restaurant wrote. “We are open!” This isn’t the local staple’s first “ice castle” experience. In December 2022, FOX Weather Correspondent&nbsp;Max Gorden&nbsp;was in Hamburg&nbsp;when massive waves coated Hoak’s Restaurant in layers of ice&nbsp;and damaged nearby businesses. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3bxzvw_0qmZMAtU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3bxzvw_0qmZMAtU00" width="2000" height="1333" ><figcaption>The restaurant beside Lake Erie in Hamburg became covered in ice after Western New York was impacted by lake-effect snow on Sunday, January 14. @weather_buffalo via Storyful </figcaption></figure><figure><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/06-05-03-travel-buffalo-59949518.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=49o0i2_0qmZMAtU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=49o0i2_0qmZMAtU00" width="1024" height="680" ></a><figcaption>Warmer times, Hoak’s Lakeshore Restaurant bar. Dave Hallett </figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/sports/bills-urge-shovelers-to-obey-travel-ban-as-snow-pounds-buffalo/" rel="nofollow"> The Buffalo area </a> continues to dig out from the snowstorm before more lake-effect snow is set to begin on Tuesday. Fans are worked to shovel over a foot of snow from Highmark Stadium before the Buffalo Bills defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday. The NFL playoff game was postponed due to the winter storm. <figure><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/2022-hamburg-new-york-buffalo-74964291.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3fFITz_0qmZMAtU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3fFITz_0qmZMAtU00" width="2000" height="1333" ></a><figcaption>Ice covers Hoak’s restaurant along the Lake Erie shoreline on December 24, 2022 in Hamburg, New York. John Normile/Getty Images </figcaption></figure><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div></body>

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HAMBURG, New York – A New York restaurant on the shores of Lake Erie reopened after a lake-effect snowstorm covered the business in an “ice castle coating.”

Hoak’s Lakeshore Restaurant in Hamburg, New York, a Buffalo suburb, closed on Sunday amid a travel ban during a major winter storm. 

Areas of western New York saw more than 2 feet of snow, including 41.3 inches in Hamburg.

Winds and snow covered the business on the northeastern shores of Lake Erie with massive icicles and a thick coating of ice accretion.

The restaurant wrote on Instagram it remained closed on Sunday after “getting a small...