Petaluma Moms Team Up To Transfer Bar Shut Down By City Into Kid-Friendly Cafe

CBS Bay Area

April 14, 2025

They say necessity is the mother of invention and in Petaluma, two mothers are teaming up to invent a new kind of coffee shop and it's happening in a most unlikely location.

When she worked as a barista, Elena Kaljian got pretty good at making coffee. But when she had a child, she noticed something.

"I was at a coffee shop when I was a brand-new mom, with my little baby and my stroller and other friends with babies and strollers. And we were just trying to get together and there wasn't any space for us," she said. "And that's kind of when this idea first came to me on the coffee side: create a space where families can come together and not feel like they are taking up too much space, the kids are too loud, they don't have a place to put the stroller and can just be."

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