Athens · Small-lot roastery

Made before the light.

Small-lot coffee, roasted at dawn and shipped the same week. We open at six.

Batch: 12 kg
Roasted: 6 mornings a week
Shipped: within 48 h

Coffee made properly is not a transaction. It is the part of the day you keep for yourself.

01 — The roast

Roasted before the light.

Twelve kilos at a time, six mornings a week, before the doors open. Coffee is at its best in the days just after roasting, so we roast constantly and ship immediately.

The roast date is on the bag

Not a best-before eighteen months away. The day it was roasted, printed, every time. It is the number that actually matters.

Light enough to taste the place

We roast to protect origin character, not to cover it. Far enough to develop sweetness and body. Never far enough to taste of the roast instead of the coffee.

Cupped before it is sold

Every batch is tasted before it leaves. The House blend tastes the same in November as it did in June.

02 — The lot

Small lots, named properly.

Producer, region, altitude, varietal, process. All of it printed on the bag, all of it published here. If we cannot name the altitude, we do not buy the lot.

Whole bean by default. Ground to order for a named method — espresso, moka, V60, Chemex, AeroPress, French press. Never ground generically.

Launch lot

Ethiopia · Guji

Region: Guji Zone, Oromia
Altitude: 1,950 m
Varietal: Heirloom
Process: Washed
Roast: Light
Notes: Peach, bergamot, black tea

Best from day four.

03 — Design & materials

A room that lets you stay.

Twenty-four seats. Dark timber, brushed steel, warm low light, hard surfaces softened with textile so the room never gets loud. The bar is low enough to see over, deliberately, so that making coffee is something you can watch. No music before nine.

Macro detail of a hand-thrown unglazed ceramic cup of espresso beside a matte blackened steel portafilter with a walnut handle. — Unglazed clay, blackened steel, oiled walnut. Nothing glossy.

Unglazed ceramicHand-thrown, matte, visible tooth
Oiled walnutOpen grain, low sheen
Blackened steelNon-reflective, warm edge only
Coarse linenWashed, undyed, softens the room

04 — Who it is for

Made for the early hour.

01 / 04

The early hour

You are awake before you have to be, and you protect that hour. You already know the difference between a good coffee and a convenient one, and you quietly stopped accepting the convenient one.

Wants: consistency you never have to think about.

02 / 04

The regular

Three mornings a week, the same table. The room is a fixed point in the day — somewhere to work alone in company, meet someone properly, or sit for twenty minutes without a screen.

Wants: to be recognised, and never rushed.

03 / 04

The gift buyer

Buying for someone else — a subscription, a bag with a good label, a brew kit. It has to look and feel considered the moment it is handed over.

Wants: effortless to buy, obviously cared for.

04 / 04

The visitor

Three days in Athens, looking for the good coffee rather than the nearest coffee. Needs to know within five seconds that this is the right room.

Wants: the address, the hours, and one honest photograph.

05 — Specification

The numbers, printed.

Real figures, not adjectives. This is the launch lot exactly as it will be sold.

OriginEthiopia · Guji

Altitude1,950 m

VarietalHeirloom

ProcessWashed

Roast levelLight

Batch size12 kg

Roast days6 / week

Roast to ship≤ 48 h

Bag weight250 g

GrindWhole, or to method

Date on bagRoast date

Lot size300 bags

06 — Pre-order

The first lot.

€19 / 250 g

Ethiopia · Guji, roasted light
Whole bean, or ground for your method
Roast date printed on every bag
Roasted the morning it ships

Three hundred bags. Ships from 14 October. There is no countdown and there will not be a discount — when the lot is finished, it is finished.