Cat Nap Coffee Roasting Awakens with First Virginia Cafe

Howard Bryman | August 13, 2025

Inside the new Cat Nap coffee shop in Staunton, Virginia. All images courtesy of Cat Nap Coffee Roasting.

In the restful heart of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, a young coffee venture called Cat Nap Coffee Roasting is up and at ’em with its first brick-and-mortar cafe in Staunton.

Sharing a space that’s operated a few nights per week by local brewery Queen City Brewing Co., Cat Nap’s first permanent cafe offers plenty of indoor seating including along the bar, as well as a spacious patio with tables, chairs and benches.

Bright pastel signage and packaging pop against the otherwise mellow setting, while a handcrafted, locally made glass neon sign glows in the front window.

“We have full run of the place as far as seating and use of the facilities, and it’s a large building,” Cat Nap Coffee Founder Ryan Brosmer told Daily Coffee News. “Cat Nap has worked to liven up the space. Our cafe lead Becca also has a bit of a green thumb with her own greenhouse at home, and she has brought in a variety of plants to freshen things up.”

A cart equipped with a Eureka grinder paired with a single-group Lucca espresso machine serves as the cafe’s espresso station, while also allowing for event flexibility. For single-cup pourovers, Cat Nap turns to an xBloom Studio machine.

“It allows me to personally dial in recipes for the coffees while making the brewing process easily consistent, removing a lot of the variables that can make ordering a pourover a roll of the dice at many cafes,” Brosmer said. “It also reduces some of the stress and workload on our workers while still being able to serve up a diverse offering of special coffees.”

Batch brews are made 60 ounces at a time in a Technivorm Moccamaster CDT Grand, and the company’s cold brew is now available in bottles.

“Our cold brew is something I’m very proud of. I’m a big cold coffee fan — cold brew and iced pourovers,” said Brosmer. “I feel like our cold brew stands out as much more fruit forward, juicy and actually refreshing to drink.”

The grand opening happily coincided with the roasting company’s one-year business anniversary.

Cat Nap Coffee Founder Ryan Brosmer.

Brosmer, a writer and illustrator by trade, handles much of Cat Nap’s design work, as featured in the branding and packaging.

He also roasts the coffees across the street at Art Hive — a creative reuse art supply store housed in a former restaurant — using a Coffee Crafters Valenta 12 fluid-bed roaster.

After launching Cat Nap solo with help from friends and family, Brosmer now has four employees and bigger plans ahead.

“We’re really looking forward to continued growth,” Brosmer said. “We have some exciting new partnerships coming up, bringing on new wholesale accounts, letting the cafe become a community gathering space and making new, lasting, personal connections through our coffee.”