Cafe Nervosa is a fictional coffee shop featured in the television sitcom Frasier. It is located on the corner of 3rd and Pike Streets in Seattle and is located just across the street from the KACL Radio Studios. As such many of the KACL staff come here during their free time, including Frasier Crane and his family.
The staff of the Cafe have changed over the years, although one waitress (whose name was never mentioned) was there for 4 years and in the latter years of the show, a waiter named James was a permanent fixture at the Cafe. Daphne Moon's mother Gertrude also worked there for a while. The Cafe has a lot of regulars as well, including the Crane family and friends, and indeed it is where Frasier and his brother Niles Crane often meet up to discuss various topics there.
The Cafe serves a wide variety of coffees and also serves food such as biscottis and bran muffins. It is currently owned by Maureen Nervosa.
The producers of Frasier decided that a non-work, non-home setting for Frasier would be a coffee shop, as Seattle is well known for them. They also made sure there were no stools in the Cafe, to differentiate it from the Cheers bar back in Boston, where Frasier Crane had recently moved from. The Cafe's name, Nervosa, is a psychological term meaning "the deliberating psychological addiction to an object, belief or behavioural pattern".
