Salt & Light Cafe

Welcome to Salt & Light Cafe!☕ Our kitchen closes at 2, we serve drinks and pastries until 4. We are a small cafe in Reading with big hopes for our city. Our name is inspired by Matthew 5:13-15 and the culture we want to represent as we serve our community!

We strive to have the best coffee, best crepes, and best hospitability in our hood. Come visit us!

Salt & Light Cafe is one of the cafes listed in Reading, Pennsylvania. The business is registered at 134 N 5th St #1, Reading, PA 19601; use this page to check its hours, phone number and Google rating before you make the trip. Besides its main category, the business also describes itself as restaurant, so it may cover more than the name suggests.

Coffee in the United States is served by three kinds of places: national chains with drive-thrus and mobile ordering, independent neighborhood cafes that double as a workspace or a meeting spot, and specialty shops that roast their own beans or buy single-origin lots and brew them by pour-over, espresso or cold brew. Most open between 6 and 7 a.m. on weekdays, slightly later on weekends, and the busiest hour is the commute rush before 9. A drip coffee runs a few dollars, espresso drinks and specialty pours more, and tipping a dollar or a percentage on the card reader is customary but not required. Nearly every cafe offers free Wi-Fi, though some limit laptop seating at peak times or on weekends, and outlets are often the scarce resource.

The business lists hours on 6 days of the week. The most common schedule is 7:30 am–4 pm. It is closed on Sunday. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. The listed phone number is (610) 507-4022. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, sl-cafe.com.

Customers rate it 4.9 out of 5 on Google across 240 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded cafes in Reading.

Reading is in Pennsylvania, in the Northeast, where four distinct seasons shape local life: hot humid summers, snowy winters that can close businesses for a day, and a dense pattern of towns where walking, transit and street parking all matter. Getting around Reading is easiest by car; street parking is metered in busy downtown areas, and most suburban businesses have their own lot. Ride-share apps such as Uber and Lyft operate across Pennsylvania's larger cities, and public transit varies from extensive to minimal.

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