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Nursing oversight and medications
Noon doses, blood pressure, blood sugar and a note home every day.
IncludedAdult day club · New Braunfels & San Marcos
Coffee at three. Company all day.
Comal Street is an adult day club in two old Hill Country storefronts, one in New Braunfels and one in San Marcos. A nurse on site, lunch from scratch, music, games and the best part of the day: Kaffeeklatsch at three o'clock.
Our tradition
Every afternoon, the whole room stops for coffee.
Gretchen Voigt-Salazar grew up in New Braunfels in a family where everything stopped at three for coffee and cake. As a home health nurse she watched that ritual disappear for her patients: no cake, no company, nobody to sit down with.
In 2008 she opened Comal Street in an old dry-goods store two blocks off the plaza, and in 2019 a second club in San Marcos. The day has nursing care, lunch, music and games, but members will tell you the real reason they come: at three o'clock, everyone sits down together.
— Gretchen Voigt-Salazar, RN, founder
Photo tour
Afternoons on Comal Street
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Kaffeeklatsch at three
Coffee, cake and the whole room at one table. The heart of the day.
Every day
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Lunch from scratch
Schnitzel on Mondays, enchiladas on Thursdays, soup every day.
IncludedSample family reviews
Over coffee, families tell us
My mother's whole life stopped at three for coffee. At Comal Street it still does. She's herself at that table.
Dad plays Skat with three men he went to school with in 1952. They still argue about the same hand.
We moved Mom from New Braunfels to my house in San Marcos and she just switched clubs. Same nurses, same coffee.
Hannah noticed Mom's ankles swelling and called her doctor. They changed a pill that afternoon.
Abuela speaks Spanish, Opa spoke German, and they both had friends at Comal Street.
Wednesday cake is made by the members. Mom's Bienenstich was the most popular week of the year.
Marisol got our waiver approved in a month.
I can teach a full day without worrying. That's what this place gave me.
Oktoberfest at the club was better than Wurstfest. Don't tell anyone.
My husband has Alzheimer's and the quiet room is the only place he naps in the afternoon. Then he's up for coffee.
When Dad passed, Pastor Ellen came to the house and the club sent a cake. Of course they did.
Our grandparents had it right: every afternoon, stop what you're doing, pour a cup, cut the cake and sit down with the people around you.
Rooms & suites
Inside the club
Old storefronts with tall windows, rebuilt for everything a long day needs.
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The coffee room
Tall storefront windows, round tables and the big coffee urn that starts every afternoon at three.
- Storefront windows
- Piano
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The teaching kitchen
Accessible counters where members bake, roll noodles and help with lunch.
- Accessible counters
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The game parlor
Card tables, a chess corner and the domino table that never empties.
- Card tables
- Chess corner
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The quiet room
A calm room for members living with dementia, with soft chairs and music.
- Dementia-friendly
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The garden
Raised boxes by the gate and shade for an afternoon sit.
- Raised boxes
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The shower room
A roll-in shower and a trained aide.
- Roll-in shower
- 2clubs, one way of doing things
- 3:00Kaffeeklatsch, every day
- 58members across both clubs
- 17years on Comal Street
Our team
The people pouring the coffee
Gretchen Voigt-Salazar, RN
Founder and director
Sam Ochoa, RN
Director of nursing
Hannah Lehmann, LVN
Nurse, New Braunfels
Yolanda Briseño, LVN
Nurse, San Marcos
Admissions
Getting started
Our intake coordinator walks you from first call to first coffee.
- A home visit before the first day
- Benefits and waiver paperwork handled
- A van time that fits your morning
- A check-in call after week one
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Readers' Choice · Best Senior Program
- Heritage Society · Community Partner
- County Chamber · Small Business of the Year
- Area Agency on Aging · Community Partner
- Regional Hospital · Preferred Day Program
- University Nursing Program · Clinical Partner
- Downtown Association · Building Reuse Award
- Alzheimer's Support Network · Partner Site
- Top Workplaces · Small Employer
- Veterans Coalition · Community Partner
Now hiring
Good people make Comal Street Day Club. We are hiring for every shift.
Visit
Find us off Main Plaza
- 240 W Comal Street
New Braunfels, TX
Free parking behind the building off Comal Street. The covered drop-off and ramp are by the garden gate. - (830) 555-0141
- Text us
- kaffee@comalstreetday.example
- ComalStreetDayClub
Tour & office hours
- Club days, Mon – Fri7:30a – 5:30p
- KaffeeklatschEvery day at 3
- Tours, Mon – Fri9:30a – 2:30p
- Families drop inAny time we are open
Three o'clock. There's a chair for you.
Come for Kaffeeklatsch, or bring your parent for a free day at either club, lunch and the van included.