Feast on flavorful foods from local eateries while enjoying performances by live musicians! Enjoy an eclectic mix of entertainment... For all MidDay Café event details, please click on Events.
Coming to a Tunes & Take Out event? Bring your box lunch. We’ll provide the setting and music.
On Wednesday April 2nd, MidDay Café JazzFest @ Judy’s with be celebrating the Reading JazzFest with Bluzin’ - the Lehigh Valley-based Blues Quartet at Judy's on Cherry. On Friday June 6th, a battalion of WWII rein-actors with restored vehicles herald a downtown tradition, the WWII Weekend Kick-Off which officially opens the MidDay Café summer season with the WWII MidDay Café (rain or shine).  City Day MidDay Café will be on Friday June 20th at 5th & Penn . On Wed. July 23, come out for Flampouris – Bouzouki & Troupe Shadia – Belly Dancing at My Big Fat Greek MidDay Café at the CNA Plaza. Voice of the Diva MidDay Café at the County Services Center on Wednesday August 6th, is jam-packed with Kimberly Killen Scheffey & Vuja De, Dragonfly Studios – Glassblowing demonstration & exhibit of jewelry and art & Sunflower Mime. Be sure to come to CourtYard One on Wednesday August 13th for Margaritaville MidDay Café and on Wednesday September 3rd for Rock, Roll & The Reading Public Library with the Beautiful Buildings of Downtown Reading Award Ceremony. We'll wrap up on Wednesday September 10 for Celtic at The Courthouse MidDay Café at the County Services Center.
Thanks to our generous community sponsors all entertainment remains FREE OF CHARGE. Sponsors are often on site to greet you, so please stop by and say hello!
Ballots for the 3rd Annual Beautiful Buildings of Downtown Reading event will be available at MidDay Café as well as on the DID website (www.downtownreading.com)
Anna’s Luncheonette
Auntie Anne’s Soft Pretzels
Cavanaugh’s Downtown Reading Hofbrau
The Greek Gourmet
J's Place
Judy’s…On Cherry
The Outside Inn Restaurant & Bar
Sammy’s Steaks
Restaurants are open on site
from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Music/Entertainment:: 11:30am - 1:30 pm
(all free of charge thanks to our sponsors)
You’ll notice that each MidDay Café (except
WWII MDC which is a ‘Rain or Shine’ event) has
been assigned a rain date or rain location.
Rain postponement information will be carried
by WEEU and WRFY or by calling 610-376-6424.
Each Tunes & Take Out event will be relocated to a local eatery if rain. Please see our MidDay Café Events page for rain locations.
- John Ernesto & The Reading Eagle Company
- Each of our 2008 Sponsors
- The City of Reading
- Mayor Thomas McMahon, Ginny Hand
and Magda Graciano
- Reading City Council
- Linda Kelleher & Chris Kanezo
- Keith Fritz and Tim Seidel,
Reading Eagle Press
- Jim Stubblebine,
The Reading Eagle Company
- Dave Kline, WEEU
- Nick Harris, WRFY
- Kyle Zeiber and Everyone at Public
Works, Parks and Recreation
- Webmasters, Kathy Lyster and Dave Mollura
- Jen, Mary & Lee at Signs & More in 24
- Alan Shuman, Shuman Development Group
- Linda Wrobel, Greater Reading/Berks Visitors & Convention Bureau
- Every one of our 2008 Performers, Artists, Participants and Eateries
- The Reading Downtown Improvement District Team
- Miss DeDe Wotring
Remember:
It’s lunchtime: FEED YOUR SENSES.
Deborah Miller
Events Director, Reading,D.I.D.
610-376-6424
MidDay Café is a production of the
Reading Downtown Improvement District
www.downtownreading.com
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