The Roaming Roast

The Roaming Roast is a casual cafe with light comfort offerings featuring toast from local baker On The Bun. The coffee is from a local Pennsylvania roaster, Denim Coffee. We offer traditional coffee, latte, cold brew, and tea drinks along with a comfortable atmosphere to visit with others.

Located at 116 E King St, York, PA 17401, The Roaming Roast operates as a cafe serving York in Pennsylvania. This page gathers the practical details people usually look for before visiting: where it is, how to reach it, when it opens and how customers rate it.

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 5 days of the week. On most of those days it is open 9 am–3 pm. Note that it does not open on Monday, Tuesday. As with most places, expect changes around holidays; the phone number below is the fastest way to confirm. The listed phone number is (303) 949-3864. Many businesses also reply to text messages on the same number if it is a cell phone. More information is available on its website, roamingroastcafe.com.

Customers rate it 4.8 out of 5 on Google across 49 reviews, placing it among the better-regarded cafes in York.

York 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 York 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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