Essentials Cafe

Located inside a very quaint town home, this Cafe is very clean and charmingly appointed. This Cafe is actually a charitable organization with Suggested pricing for their menu items (e.g. pay more or less as you can afford).

Essentials will hopefully grow into a the institution it's meant to be . It's 90% volunteer staff so a little patience goes a long way . The food is good , above par for what they are doing , and if you don't know what they are doing allow me to elucidate. Essentials Cafe is a ' pay what you can ' establishment, if you have no means to pay you don't have to , although if you do that's good and if you have more than you need you are welcome to purchase a meal for someone who doesn't , they have a ' wooden nickel ' wherein you can donate to purchase a meal . Also you can easily overpay for you meal as a donation. They're doing a good thing over there and I know it's not going unnoticed.

I love the concept of this pay what you can café. I was overwhelmed that a post of mine on Facebook was shared like crazy and had an amazing response of people who also adored the idea of what they are doing. I had attended a One World Everybody Eats conference many years ago, and I am so excited that this concept has come to the Lehigh Valley! Great fresh food, and charming volunteers.

Amazing little cafe that helps serve the local community. It's a "pay what you can" resturant and it runs off of donations to help the less fortunate have a place where they can get a meal. If more places like this existed the world would be a better place!

What a great neighborly concept. They do a tremendous job helping people. And you can never say enough good things about that!!