Two Ryans built a coffee shop. What they really built was a living room for Redmond.
Walk into Cypress Coffee on a weekday morning and the first thing you notice isn't the coffee. It's the noise — the good kind. A regular catching up with the person behind the bar. Someone sketching in the corner. A table that started as two strangers and somehow became four friends. The espresso machine is humming away, pulling acclaimed beans from Middlefork Roasters — but it might be the second-loudest thing in the room. That's exactly how Ryan Heidy and Ryan Yamaguchi planned it.
Two Ryans and a bet on the neighborhood
Ryan Heidy and Ryan Yamaguchi didn't open Cypress Coffee to sell a better latte — though, for the record, they do that too. They opened it on a simpler, older idea: that a neighborhood needs a place to be. Not a place to pass through with a paper cup, but a place that holds you for an afternoon. A third place, between home and work, where showing up is the whole point.
So they built one. They put real care into the cup — specialty coffee from Middlefork Roasters, crafted with a quality you can taste — and then they did the harder thing: they made the room feel like it belonged to everyone who walked in.
A gathering place, on purpose
Ask the team what Cypress actually is and they won't lead with the menu. They'll tell you it's where friendships are made and where creativity gets fueled. The coffee is the reason you come the first time. The community is the reason you keep coming back.
At Cypress Coffee, community isn't just a value — it's the heart of everything we do. More than a neighborhood coffee shop, we're a gathering place where friendships are made and creativity is fueled.— Ryan Heidy & Ryan Yamaguchi, Cypress Coffee
Open Mic Night — bring your voice, we'll bring the refreshments
If you want to understand Cypress, come on the night the lights dim and the mic goes live. Open Mic Night is one of the team's favorite things they do — an open invitation to artists, poets, musicians, and the nervous-first-timers to take the stage in a room that's actively rooting for them.
The coffee bar stays open for purchase, there are refreshments, and the welcome is genuinely no-strings. As the Cypress team puts it: they've captured so many wonderful performances from past Open Mic Nights — honestly, enough talent to power the espresso machine if they could figure out the wiring. If you're a performer and don't see your video in their collection yet, it usually just means there's no release form on file — a quick email fixes that.
Know an artist? Send this their way. Early sign-ups go to kevdabrewer@msn.com, and sign-ups open at the door an hour before showtime.
Open Mic Night at Cypress Coffee
One of their favorites is back. Here's everything you need to be in the room — whether you're signing up to perform or just there to cheer.
