A new cafe in the Red Horse Tavern serves up coffee and breakfast sandwiches

The Red Horse Tavern has traded beer bottles for beignets.

Co-owners Natalie Valdivia and Victor Visciani turned the restaurant’s former bottle shop into a cafe that serves assorted caffeinated drinks and breakfast foods.

Valdivia and Visciani, who reopened the Red Horse last summer, realized they couldn’t compete with beer prices at grocery stores and gas stations, so they sought a new use for the bottle shop.

“After careful consideration, we opted for a café as we strongly believe that the area would greatly benefit from a much-needed coffee shop,” Valdivia wrote in a Facebook chat. They opened Tiny Tavern Cafe in late June.

The beignets, which are made fresh each day, and cinnamon bun lattes are customer favorites, Valdivia said, and the cafe offers unique flavors such as coffee syrups that are all made in-house.

There are also familiar tastes: The pretzel bread used in breakfast sandwiches is the same as in the Red Horse’s pretzel bread appetizer, and Tiny Tavern uses coffee beans from Cafe Lemont.

Tiny Tavern Cafe is open from 7-11 a.m Tuesday through Saturday at 104 N. Main St., Pleasant Gap.