New Lehigh Valley ‘play cafe’ to supply specialty drinks, small bites and critical enjoyable for teenagers | Eat, Sip, Store

NORTH CATASAUQUA, Pa. – A brand new, family-run enterprise will attraction to each adults and youngsters, with a conventional cafe idea serving up espresso, tea and baked items alongside a chosen house for youngsters to let unfastened in Northampton County.

Chapter Pink Play Cafe, a fast-casual cafe that includes a kids’s play space, is predicted to open in May at 1492 Main St. in North Catasauqua, co-owner Laila Santiago advised 69 News.

Santiago and her sister, Brittany Pichardo, not too long ago signed a lease for the unit, with Doug Sandlin of The James Balliet Property Group representing each the tenant and landlord within the deal.

Chapter Pink will characteristic a conventional cafe space with eating tables and a espresso counter subsequent to an enclosed kids’s play space geared towards toddlers and youngsters as much as age 4, Santiago stated.

The cafe can be open to most people, not simply households, and company will have the ability to take pleasure in espresso, chai and matcha lattes, cold and warm teas and different drinks, Santiago stated.

There additionally can be a collection of small bites, together with sandwiches, fruit cups and treats reminiscent of croissants, muffins, cookies and cake pops from a partnering bakery, Santiago stated.

The kids’s space will characteristic custom-built playhouses, and fogeys and guardians will have the ability to loosen up with a drink, work on their laptop computer or meet up with different adults whereas watching their children play, Santiago stated.

Staff can be available to repeatedly clear the play space, and weekly story time classes are additionally deliberate, Santiago stated.

Pichardo, a resident of North Catasauqua, and Santiago, a resident of Northampton, noticed a chief alternative to create a hybrid cafe and youngsters’s play venue for households like their very own.

“My sister and I both had kids around the same time,” Santiago stated.

“They’re 2 years old now, and we’d meet up for coffee with our other mom friends, but we could never stay too long because it’s not entertaining for our kids. So, we thought that we could bridge that gap.”

Santiago additionally took inspiration from a mixture cafe and youngsters’ play house that she encountered on a visit to Houston, Texas.

“I thought, ‘This would be perfect back at home,’” she stated.

Pricing remains to be being finalized, however there can be a small admission charge for youngsters to enter the play space, Santiago stated.

“Overall, it’s an open-play concept, but it’ll also be a place that you could rent if you want to have a birthday party,” Santiago added.

Pink Chapter Play Cafe will occupy a soon-to-renovated finish unit of a strip mall that beforehand housed a pizzeria.

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