ROCKIN' CAT
ORGANIC CAFE
& ROASTERY
567 Lincoln Avenue, Bellevue, PA 15202
Choose from our full line of Certified Organic & Certified Fairtrade Whole Bean Coffees, roasted on site; our Certified Organic Loose Leaf Teas, Herbal Infusions, & Matcha; and our takeaway menu of specialty, house-made Organic Coffee & Tea Drinks in a fully compostable cup.
We’ll see you there!
OPEN
Monday - Friday: 7 AM - 2 PM
Saturday - Sunday: 9 AM - 2 PM
coffee as a force for good.
From the very start, we’ve worked to ethically source our Certified Organic, Certified Fairtrade beans, roasting locally in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, totally Carbon Neutral. Our Certified Organic teas are tested for quality and perfection, and processed with NSF Certified stainless steel into compostable packages just like our coffee.
No plastic. No petrochemicals. Just a really good cup of coffee that helps improve things for everyone.
Choosing a ROCKIN' CAT product is choosing to protect farmers and workers, break the trend of environmentally toxic practices, and pressure the rest of the industry to hear your demands for a better, more equitable future.
The impacts of conventional coffee sourcing have always left a sour taste in our mouths, which is why we have it written in our principles to contribute meaningfully to true global sustainability. We’ve found our roasts to be smoother, with incredible tasting notes, when it challenges the status quo.
Every part of your drink at our takeaway cafe is USDA Certified Organic, from the beans we roast and all of our teas, to each milk option, and even to every flavored syrup. No synthetic chemicals, no toxic treatments, and never any antibiotics. You’re left with only the bold flavor of better soil, water, and air for farmers, their families, and our communities.
be unconventional.
normalize ethical
business practices.
Our roots are homegrown in Pittsburgh. True to our Steel City culture, we’re not afraid to put in the hard work and get our hands dirty. We started with the concept of truly transparent sustainable business practices, a small building suffering from deindustrialized blight in the Borough of Bellevue, and a whole lot of determination.
Like many small businesses in our region, we’ve built from the ground-up, putting in the labor and the research until the first batch of Rockin’ Cat Organic Coffee was absolutely, deliciously perfect.
Businesses should be held accountable. Our supporters know we’re always advocating for them, providing the highest quality products with no corner-cutting and no green-washing, and we have the receipts to prove it. Let’s normalize ethical business practices.
We invite you to hold us accountable. (We love to talk about it, after all.)
change is bold.
No synthetic chemicals, no toxic treatments, and never any antibiotics.
Every part of your drink is USDA Certified Organic, from the beans we roast, to each milk option, and even to every flavored syrup.
But being a USDA Certified Organic Facility is more than that.
USDA Certified Organic is all about economic, social, and environmental stewardship with strict, public accountability standards. It means better soil, water, and air for farmers, their families, and our communities.
Farms and businesses who make the promise of USDA Certified Organic can be found in the Integrity Database.
(Look us up: https://organic.ams.usda.gov/integrity)
We make the promise, because it’s in our principles: Be courageous about a happier, healthier world.
Our coffee is Certified Fairtrade – all of it.
Fairtrade simply means prioritizing people and the environment over profit. It should be the norm, but it’s not, which is why we source all of our beans according to the rigorous social, economic and environmental Fairtrade Standards.
Certified Fairtrade is a protected term, and for good reason. It comes with the verification that farmers are empowered with fair wages, gender equality sees equal pay for equal work, and child labor is never a question. In low- and middle-income countries, the positive impact on human life is significant.
Choosing products with the Certified Fairtrade logo means protecting the workers around the globe who made the product, and it also helps to fight the corporate greed that preys on them.
We like fighting corporate greed – nothing tastes quite like it.
Rockin' Cat is a Certified Benefit Corporation.
When businesses prioritize profit over people, the impacts are damaging. Wealth disparity grows, the health of our communities diminishes, and resource extraction leads to environmental degradation – both at home and globally.
B Lab is a nonprofit network with a goal of transforming the global economy to benefit all people and the planet: that’s the message behind the movement, and companies with Certified B Corporations have proven real commitment to this vision.
Imagine a world where all stakeholders (such as employees, customers, our communities, and even the environment), not just shareholders, are valued and prioritized. When businesses are held accountable, when their success is measured against transparent social and environmental measures, the health and wellbeing of people and the environment becomes a priority.
Businesses can, and should, be a force for good.
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
Microplastics are everywhere, including our drinking water, and we’re not real big fans of it. With that in mind, we’ve thought out every step of the production process, from roasting and packaging, to the drink we hand you at the cafe counter, so that it’s intentionally free of plastic.
All of our coffees & teas are in compostable packaging that meets the ASTM D6400, EN13432, and TUV standards. That means our packaging is truly (not mostly) plastic-free. Even the zippers, valves, and labels are compostable.
We won’t even use any plastic processing equipment — it’s all NSF Certified stainless steel.
Our shipping and fulfillment products are reusable, biodegradable, compostable, and, as a last resort, recyclable, including the tape. We don’t use ‘packing peanuts’ or petrochemical-based plastic bags.
We don’t overlook any detail when it comes to reducing microplastic exposure. Even the water we use at our cafe to make every drink is RO (Reverse Osmosis) Purified, to remove all PFAS and other volatile contaminants, served in a completely plastic-free BPI Certified Compostable cup.
Carbon Neutrality as the standard.
We’re Carbon Neutral. We measure & off-set all of our business impacts with Gold Standard Offsets.
Gold Standard for the Global Goals is an innovative impact standard bringing high-level integrity and credibility to the most important global goal of our time: climate security and sustainable development.
We’re advocates of climate justice (if you couldn’t tell), which means we’re constantly evaluating every decision, from how our steel food-processing tables were manufactured, to how honest and credible our packaging sources are, in order to create the lowest possible impact on the world.
We power our entire facility with wind-generated electricity from Green Mountain Energy, which means no electricity ever comes from oil, fracking, or nuclear power — or any of that ‘transitional’ stuff.
We’re also dedicated to operating as Zero Waste as we can be. We compost first, reuse second, recycle third, and landfill as an absolute last resort. Our contribution to landfills is less than an average home in the United States.
taste the coffee & tea that challenges the status quo.
12 certified organic and fairtrade single origin coffees.
As members of the Specialty Coffee Association and the Coffee Roasters Guild, we promote the highest standards in the Coffee Industry. For us, that means careful selection and no synthetic chemicals or toxic treatments.
Each of our coffees is available in our online shop and in our takeaway cafe. Ask our radically cool baristas for a pour-over and Bird Friendly options.
30 of the finest certified organic loose leaf teas in the world.
Seriously, the world. Our selection process includes quality checks and taste-testing, because we don’t serve anything we haven’t sampled for excellence ourselves.
Come by our takeaway cafe and order a freshly-brewed cup of any of the teas in our selection, and browse our complete selection in both our takeaway cafe and online shop.
specialty coffee & tea brewing gear that we love.
We’re big nerds about brewing coffee and tea, and we’re ready to encourage you to be one as well. Check out our inventory both in our online shop and in our takeaway cafe.
Stop by our cafe for a quick lesson from our super awesome baristas on the best way to brew your favorite coffee or tea. (Matcha whisk a little intimidating, anyone?)