Cats, Cuddles, and Forever families
We have helped facilitate permanent homes for over 1,000 cats, and fostered nearly 1500!
Beans Cat Cafe operates as a foster facility for adoptable shelter cats from HVARS, where guests can visit even if they aren’t looking to adopt.
There are so many reasons people can’t add another cat into their lives. While our goal is to find homes for these fuzzy friends, there is no expectation or obligation to adopt. This means a guilt free visit with kitties longing to meet you.
By visiting the cat lounge, you help us support our feline friends on their journey to a new home
Meet the couple behind the cafe
Beans Cat Cafe is a dream born of a love for cats and coffee.
Co-Owners Jessica and Justin Cruz-Strika started the journey in 2019, and opened the doors to their first location in Beacon NY in November 2020. Justin comes from a cat loving family and has barely gone a moment in his life without a cat, while Jess got her first cat at the age of 18 while living alone in a studio apartment. Since then, they have added 2 more cats, the last of whom they adopted from Beans!
Before the Cat Cafe, Justin worked for many years as a Direct Support Professional with Anderson Center for Autism. In 2022 he left to help support Beans Cat Cafe full time.
Jessica is a former manager in the restaurant industry and spearheaded the whole operation since its initial inception. She wanted to create a space where adoptable shelter cats could meet members of the public, who would hopefully want to give them forever homes. She took the idea, combined it with a coffee obsession, and Beans Cat Cafe was born! You'll find them both on site taking care of animals and customers daily.
It took 2 years of planning, 5 months of DIY construction, and a life-time of loving cats! We've had many partners and supporters who we couldn't have gotten here without. The cats come to us from HVARS, as they have since the very beginning. Sam and her team are our #1 supporters!
July 2023 we opened the doors to our second location in New Paltz, NY and are very excited and grateful to have had such an amazing reception from the community.
Our top priority is the care, health, and comfort of our kitties. It doesn’t always make us the most popular to enforce the boundaries for the cats, but that is the only way the whole system works. The cats must always be priority 1!
In loving memory of Stacy Jacobs
Who is Stacy?
Stacy volunteered with Hudson Valley Animal Rescue for 9 years, and for other rescues such as MHAA in Beacon for longer before that
Stacy was the Cat Coordinator when Beans was first coming to fruition. She was asked to be the volunteer in charge of handling our operations and communications with the shelter. If you adopted a cat from us or HVARS between 2020 and 2024, you most likely interacted with her.
Stacy came at a pivotal point in our lives, and was such an amazing supporter, mentor, and friend. She was there for us day and night, despite her demanding job as an attorney (and the fact that she wasn’t being compensated for her amazing work).
We lost Stacy in 2026 after a long battle with breast cancer. She is dearly, deeply missed professionally, and even more so personally.
Stacy was one of the singularly most amazing women I have ever met. She cared so deeply for not only the cats, but for the people around her, most especially her husband Rob. She was witty, supportive, and funny. She also had a confidence and assertiveness that resonated deeply with me and inspired so much of what we were able to become. The profound impact she made on us all will last forever. I hope to be like her.