Naysayer Coffee Nods to North Napa with Second Cafe

"On the bar, a Slayer Steam EP espresso machine is flanked by three Mahlkönig espresso grinders, while a Mahlkönig EK43 handles coffee for Curtis batch brews and a manual pourover bar featuring multiple NextLevel Pulsar brewers. "I wanted something that's user-friendly for the baristas while still having a high level of versatility and cup quality," Naysayer Coffee Co-Founder Chris Vecera told Daily Coffee News. "We like to nerd out and go down the rabbit hole on the pourover recipes.""

"Inside the sunlit cafe, a coffee cup and plant mural sets a lively tone with big, clean geometric shapes in warm oranges and greens above a bar fronted with sage green tile. Additional warmth comes through in natural-wood shelving and surfaces that offset black accents and white walls, a signature look that ties back to Naysayer's first cafe, which opened in 2022 on the other end of town."

""Whereas [the first location] is the blue shop, Redwood Road is going to be the green shop, but it still looks like a Naysayer," said Vecera. "It's still a small coffee shop in a neighborhood focused on the local community, but it has its own kind of identity as well." Slightly off the city's beaten path for food-and-wine-focused tourists, the 800-square-foot shop sits in a shopping center that caters to the daily needs of locals."

Naysayer Coffee opened a second shop in mid-January in north Napa, complementing a growing roasting operation and an earlier 2022 cafe. The 800-square-foot space contains a Slayer Steam EP espresso machine, three Mahlkönig espresso grinders, a Mahlkönig EK43 for Curtis batch brews, and a manual pourover bar with multiple NextLevel Pulsar brewers. Equipment choices prioritize user-friendly workflow while enabling high versatility and cup quality, supporting detailed pourover recipe development. The interior uses warm oranges and greens, sage green tile, natural-wood shelving, black accents, and white walls to create a neighborhood-focused, locally oriented identity. The location sits in a shopping center serving daily resident needs rather than tourist traffic.

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