{"id":177416,"date":"2026-04-27T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:32:14","slug":"zekraft-sets-opening-day-for-new-cafe-in-the-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/177416\/","title":{"rendered":"Zekraft sets opening day for new cafe in the Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new cafe from Zekfraft \u2013 Curators of Taste has set its opening day in the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n

The cafe will open May 21 at the former Richard\u2019s Drive-In at 1550 Sullivan Trail in Forks Township, co-owner Zeke Zelker said. It will offer coffee, teas, smoothies, sandwiches, pastries and outdoor seating.<\/p>\n

Zelker said the new property is also home to the business\u2019 central kitchen for delivery and catering after it moved in January from 315 Columbia St. in Bethlehem to make way for Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School\u2019s expansion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be pretty lively,\u201d he said of the new cafe. \u201cJust because, I don\u2019t know \u2026 how do people actually see a real, working kitchen, not something that you\u2019re going to see on TV, but \u2026 we\u2019re proud to show off to people what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new cafe will host an invite-only open house<\/a> at 5 p.m. on May 19. Attendees can RSVP by emailing info@zekraft.com and putting \u201cOPEN HOUSE\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n

The full operating hours will be 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. all week. The new location joins others at the Lehigh Valley International Airport<\/a> and Promenade Saucon Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new cafe from Zekfraft \u2013 Curators of Taste has set its opening day in the Lehigh Valley.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-177416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}