<\/p>\n \u2018Here we go again\u2019: Easton restaurant devastated by second catastrophe in 4 years<\/a><\/p>\n
Inside the Easton Bank Street Annex, pancakes served with a side of resilience, for State Cafe and Grill owner Bill Sneeringer.<\/p>\n
“What’s it like to be serving customers again?” 69 News reporter Bo Koltnow asked.<\/p>\n
“Good. I’m a little rusty, but it’s going great,” Sneeringer responded.<\/p>\n
This Friday and Saturday pop up is the cafe’s and head chef Mel Rake’s first chance to serve customers in months.<\/p>\n
“I’ve really missed it. It’s always a challenge working in a kitchen that is not your normal one,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Cafe closed Feb. 20, as water from firefighters dousing flames at the nearby Hotel Hampton destroyed much of its inside.<\/p>\n
Marking the second time in four years flames left the bitter taste of an extended shutdown for the business.<\/p>\n
This two day pop-up is a way to feed customers memories.<\/p>\n
“Just what is it about the state cafe that people love so much?” 69 News reporter Bo Koltnow asked customer Shelley Sciabarassi.<\/p>\n
“Well, the food is incredible, number one, and you just feel so welcome once you walk into the door, and it’s just a family atmosphere,” she said.<\/p>\n
Mickey Pierson and Susan Dalrymple are cafe regulars.<\/p>\n
“This kind of pumps the life back into that memory, that we are still here and we will be back,” Dalrymple said.<\/p>\n
Jasmeet Bansa owns neighboring restaurant, Aman’s Artisan Indian Cuisine.<\/p>\n
“You lose your source of income, not only for the owner but people who work there as well. It’s always great to support pop ups like this, it’s packed on a Friday morning, It’s great to be a part of that,” he said.<\/p>\n
For Sneeringer, survival has meant continuing to serve.<\/p>\n
“All the people in Easton work together, it’s a beautiful thing,” he said.<\/p>\n
The pop up extends into Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m..<\/p>\n
Work has started inside the cafe. Sneeringer doesn’t know when they will re-open, but he says they will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – A beloved Easton cafe re-opens in part. The State Cafe and Grill is holding a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-187562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187562","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=187562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}