A new café from the family behind Jayna Gyro is planned for Midtown Sacramento, with a menu spanning morning pastries and late-night crêpes. Yusuf Topal and his brother Levent plan to open JEYAS Café & Pâtisserie at Ice Blocks, with proposed hours of 6:30 a.m. to midnight.
According to Abridged — PBS KVIE, the café is aiming to open in late spring 2027, taking over the former Pressed Juicery storefront along with the Ice Blocks development’s adjacent leasing office. The address is set at 1710 R St., Suite 170, with seating planned both indoors and out. Yusuf Topal, who already owns Jayna Gyro in East Sacramento, has spent more than 30 years in hospitality, a run that also includes Tarla Mediterranean Grill in Napa and Cellar, the restaurant inside The Jacquelyn private social club in Midtown.
A Menu Built for All Hours
The planned menu leans heavily on pastry: specialty croissants, desserts, sweet and savory French-style crêpes, sandwiches, specialty coffee, smoothies and açaí bowls are all on the list, per the same outlet’s reporting. Topal said the goal is for JEYAS to cover the full arc of a day — early coffee and croissants, meals shared with friends, and dessert cravings that hit late at night. That stretch from morning pastry case to midnight dessert run is also reflected in the planned hours themselves, which would push later into the night than some other Midtown dessert spots keep.
Levent Topal is expected to oversee JEYAS’s day-to-day operations, while the pastry side of the business will be led by Sacramento-born chef Antonio Coriano, who brings more than a decade of culinary experience to the project. Coriano has held roles as executive pastry chef at Old Soul Co. and lead macaron baker at Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates, and he worked as pastry chef de partie at Michelin-starred Protégé in Palo Alto until June 2026. He has also spent time at Pistachio & Cream, the Italian-style dessert shop in Midtown.
Named for Family, Aimed at the Neighborhood
JEYAS combines the names of Topal’s three daughters — Jeyda, Yasemin and Ashley. Topal has said he sees Ice Blocks as a good fit for the concept and hopes the café will become a regular neighborhood destination…