A mother-daughter run coffee shop and bakery on 10th Street, with homemade pastries, cakes, and a calendar that fills up with poetry, chess, and books.
Fresh pastries and drip coffee made daily, the kind of board that changes with what came out of the oven that morning.
"The peanut butter banana chocolate bread is the one people come back for."
Cafe 7-10 doubles as a living room for the neighborhood, with a standing lineup of events built around the people who show up.
Cafe 7-10 is owned and run by Thelma Mae Blanks and her daughter Mabel Howard, a black-owned small business at the corner of 7th and 10th in downtown Erie.
What started as a coffee counter has grown into a gathering spot, pastries in the morning, poetry on Tuesdays, and a standing invitation to pull up a chair.
"We wanted a place where people would actually stay."
Thelma Mae Blanks & Mabel Howard, Owners