{"id":264817,"date":"2026-08-13T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264817\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:02:10","slug":"donerds-donuts-owners-to-open-new-cafe-at-former-bethlehem-coffee-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264817\/","title":{"rendered":"Donerds Donuts owners to open new cafe at former Bethlehem coffee shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owners of Donerds Donuts hope to bring their travels around the world to their new cafe in South Side Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>Zen Cafe will open in either the second or third week of September at 3 W. Morton. St., just across the street from the Lehigh University campus, where Saxby\u2019s coffeehouse used to operate, according to co-owner Andrew Underwood. Underwood co-owns Zen, as well as Donerds, with his wife Annabel Figueroa.<\/p>\n<p>Menu items will include coffee provided by Devoci\u00f3n Coffee, tea, croissants, Japanese-style sandwiches called sandos, scones, toast and mocktails. The cafe will also offer discounts to residents of Amicus student housing.<\/p>\n<p>Underwood explained that he and his wife have traveled in the last 10 years to countries in Europe and South America, and wanted to make Zen a combination of the best ideas they\u2019ve seen at other cafes.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re also partnering with Devoci\u00f3n for much fresher coffee than they would otherwise get due to the company\u2019s much shorter turnaround period \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devocion.com\/pages\/our-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201corigin to cup\u201d<\/a> in just 10 days from Colombia, as the Devoci\u00f3n website promises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou really have to taste it to experience it,\u201d Underwood said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever drank a cup of coffee and maybe thought that it tasted like cardboard or just the flavor is a little bit dull. I think that we\u2019re all sort of accustomed to it, to be honest, but when you drink a coffee that\u2019s this fresh, it can actually have naturally fruity flavors. You could drink the coffee black and there\u2019s sweetness to it, just out of the straight black coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Underwood said that while they haven\u2019t finalized the exact operating hours, they plan for Zen to be open all week.<\/p>\n<p>The couple began Donerds in Chile in 2016 with a food truck before they later opened in Jim Thorpe in 2021 and in Bethlehem in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of Donerds Donuts hope to bring their travels around the world to their new cafe in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1391,60,182,434,28,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-264817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","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\/264817","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=264817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}