Inside the brand new Naysayer Espresso store in north Napa, California. All pictures courtesy of Naysayer.

To the yay-or-nay query of whether or not Napa, California, was prepared for a second Naysayer Espresso location, the general public reply has been a convincing yay.

The homegrown firm opened its second store in mid January in north Napa, including one other neighborhood-focused retail outpost to enhance its rising roasting operation.

On the bar, a Slayer Steam EP espresso machine is flanked by three Mahlkönig espresso grinders, whereas a Mahlkönig EK43 handles espresso for Curtis batch brews and a handbook pourover bar that includes a number of NextLevel Pulsar brewers.

“I needed one thing that’s user-friendly for the baristas whereas nonetheless having a excessive degree of versatility and cup high quality,” Naysayer Espresso Co-Founder Chris Vecera informed Every day Espresso Information. “We wish to nerd out and go down the rabbit gap on the pourover recipes.”

Contained in the sunlit cafe, a espresso cup and plant mural units a full of life tone with huge, clear geometric shapes in heat oranges and greens above a bar fronted with sage inexperienced tile.

Further heat comes by means of in natural-wood shelving and surfaces that offset black accents and white partitions, a signature look that ties again to Naysayer’s first cafe, which opened in 2022 on the opposite finish of city.

“Whereas [the first location] is the blue store, Redwood Highway goes to be the inexperienced store, however it nonetheless seems to be like a Naysayer,” mentioned Vecera. “It’s nonetheless a small espresso store in a neighborhood centered on the area people, however it has its personal sort of identification as effectively.”

Barely off the town’s overwhelmed path for food-and-wine-focused vacationers, the 800-square-foot store sits in a shopping mall that caters to the every day wants of locals.

“It would appear to be much less apparent of a option to construct your espresso store in a lower-trafficked space, or not in a touristy spot of a touristy city, however we determined to not hearken to these ideas,” Vecera mentioned. “In my thoughts, it’s tremendous apparent: Individuals reside right here. Individuals store on their every day errands in these components of city.”

Coffees for each retailers and the wholesale enterprise proceed to be roasted on the corporate’s Loring S15 Falcon at its manufacturing facility, which dates again to the firm’s founding in 2019. Meals choices embody gentle breakfast fare akin to granola and oats, plus bagels, toasts and pastries sourced from quite a few native bakeries.

“I like to explain our pastry case as just like the taproom idea at a bar — you would possibly serve the very best beer from every brewery in your taproom,” mentioned Vecera. “There’s going to be six or eight totally different bakeries on a rotating foundation in our case, which I feel is one other actually cool option to assist native companies.”

With two retail retailers now serving as tasting rooms for the model’s coffees, Vecera mentioned Naysayer will lean additional into wholesale partnerships.

“I actually love partnering with different individuals, elevating and supporting different companies and low applications as effectively,” mentioned Vecera. “It’s positively a purpose to search out different companies which can be inquisitive about serving native merchandise, partnering with small companies which can be serving tremendous high-quality espresso in an off-the-cuff strategy.”

Naysayer Espresso is situated at 2022 Redwood Rd. in Napa, California.

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