Located on Hampton’s roundabout, New Horizon Café and Three Arrows Coffee team up for a menu that hits the spot
By Karen Hendricks | Photography by Casey Martin
What’s breakfast or brunch without coffee? House-made doughnuts, fluffy waffles topped with berries and toasty paninis all deserve to be paired with frothy, foamy lattes and frappes—or classic cups of joe.
In the little Adams County village of Hampton, these complementary pairings come together thanks to New Horizon Café and Three Arrows Coffee.
“We’re two businesses under one roof—it’s really unique,” says Amanda Furman, manager of Three Arrows Coffee. “Our work ethic and environment are unified as a team.”
Adams Intersection
Friendly conversation and laughter fill the eatery as diners of all ages gather over their steaming plates and coffee cups.
“Our biggest goal is to serve the community well, creating a new community,” says Ashley Mummert, manager of New Horizon Café. “A lot of our customers are regulars—we know them on a first-name basis. For other places, it’s just a job—but we’re great friends with our customers, employers and co-workers. Actually, it’s more like family.
Inside, original, exposed log walls frame half of the café. Light streams in the front windows as a steady stream of traffic flows past and around the little traffic circle, joining Hunterstown Hampton Road, Stony Point Road and Route 94, known as the Carlisle Pike.
The major artery inspired one of the restaurant’s most popular drinks, the Carlisle Cup. Although Amanda created it last March to celebrate Three Arrows’ one-year anniversary in Hampton, it’s still the most-ordered drink—a surprising fact, considering it’s no longer listed on the menu. It’s that memorable.
“It absolutely exploded—everybody loves it,” says Amanda.
What’s in a Carlisle Cup? The iced coffee combines Amanda’s house-made brown sugar syrup, espresso, chocolate and caramel, topped with cold foam.
Customers include a blend of local “regulars” and visitors hailing from Gettysburg, Lancaster and beyond. While many of them step inside the homespun eatery featuring country and Christian décor, others take advantage of the handy drive-thru window.
“The uniqueness of our location on Carlisle Pike,” says Amanda, “is that we’re a drive-thru town for many people.”
Details Make the Difference
Amanda attributes Three Arrows’ caffeinated success to quality ingredients, beginning with locally roasted Ragged Edge Coffee by Chad Close at Bantam Roasters.
“Some of our drinks are more of a dessert than a coffee—including our frappes, because they’re really thick,” says Amanda. For instance, the beverage menu includes a decadent caramel frappe as well as seasonal lattes and hot chocolate, topped with latte art.
It’s a detail that kids love. Amanda says their eyes light up when they see an adorable bear atop their steaming hot chocolate. And it pairs nicely with the children’s menu from New Horizon Café, including the “baby cheeseburger,” a mini-hamburger slider.
New Horizon’s main menu is a mix of classic breakfast and lunch items—many of which feature delicious, house-made flavors. Two examples are the Horizon Specialty Salad, featuring house-made buttermilk ranch dressing—you really can taste the difference—and the Turkey Panini, featuring a tangy, house-made sweet and sour dipping sauce. If you arrive early enough in the morning, you might even treat yourself to a homemade doughnut before they’re gone.
“We don’t have a huge menu, but we try to do what we do well,” Ashley says. “For breakfast, people go crazy over our omelets. And we sell lots of burgers because people know the meat is from Wayne Nell,” an East Berlin butcher shop.
Business Backstory
Even though Three Arrows Coffee is celebrating its second anniversary in Hampton this March, the business was founded more than eight years ago as the Hanover Coffeehouse at the Markets of Hanover. Amanda, who’s now 22, started working at the market stand as a teen.
“About a year and a half after I started, the owner—Dave Esh from Lancaster—got cancer,” she recalls.
“The last words he said to me as a 14-year-old—he said he was proud of me, that even though I was so young, he said he believed in me, and he blessed me going forward with the business. And I thanked him for the opportunity.”
With the business ownership going to her parents, Amanda and her family rebranded the business as Three Arrows, based upon a Bible verse, symbolizing Amanda and her two siblings—”three arrows” growing up and launching into the world.
After a few more years at the markets, Amanda was contacted by Eric and Tanya Newcomer. They had two questions: Would she be a consultant for a new café they envisioned in Hampton, and would she like to relocate Three Arrows to the café? Additionally, they reached out to Ashley—also a young talent, now age 21—to manage New Horizon, drawing on her five years’ experience in food service.
Turnaround
“It took Eric three years to renovate this property, and everyone loves that he kept the original log walls from the 1890s,” says Amanda. The historic building was originally a log house and hotel. Through the years, it morphed into a convenience store, then the Goal Post Bar.
Today, it’s home to both New Horizon Café and Three Arrows Coffee, which describe themselves as faith-based businesses. A portion of Three Arrows’ proceeds are donated to the nonprofit Sparrow Place, York, which houses women who are survivors of sex trafficking.
“All of the owners—we are all believers, meaning we believe in God, and we’re living our lives in accordance with Him,” Amanda explains. “With our work, there’s an intentionality of caring about more than the transaction. We want to be a staff that really cares about our customers and community.”
New Horizon Café and
Three Arrows Coffee
5413 Carlisle Pike, New Oxford
