“Pearls Before Swine” cartoonist Stephan Pastis resides in Santa Rosa but found the café a comfortable place to sit and draw
his ideas for his cartoons.  It is syndicated in 800 newspapers worldwide. His largest audience is in the United States, and his largest international audience is in India. 

He first included the Roastery in 2016 and has been gracious enough to feature us on numerous occasions since. Even better, he gave me the original signed storyboards which hang proudly at the café.

He has since written and published the series of kids’ books Timmy Failure with Disney, making the first book into a movie, for which he received a co-writing credit.