Lyon · France
Café Mokxa
Café Mokxa roasts in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Since 2011 · Sadry James, Rosamund James
Overview
Mokxa was founded in 2011 in Lyon by Sadry, originally from Lyon, and his wife Rosamund (Rose) James, originally from New Zealand. The two had spent six months working for a coffee roaster in New Zealand and returned to France intending to bring NZ-style flat-white culture to a Lyon scene that was still entirely traditional. They opened the roastery and the La Boîte à Café cafe in Les Pentes de la Croix-Rousse simultaneously, expanded to Strasbourg as a partnership roastery, and now operate three Lyon cafes plus a coffee school, with wholesale into nearly 100 accounts including a Polish bakery and Luxembourg cafes.
Known for
- Lyon's first specialty coffee roastery, founded 2011
- Co-founded by Sadry and Rosamund James (kiwi-French partnership, NZ flat-white influence)
- Sister cafe La Boîte à Café in Les Pentes de la Croix-Rousse
- Second roastery in Strasbourg as expansion partnership
- Coffee school + 100+ wholesale accounts across France, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Why it matters
Mokxa is the reason Lyon has a specialty coffee scene at all. For most of the 2010s every other Lyon cafe sourced its coffee from Mokxa — and the roastery's training arm produced the city's first generation of barista talent, who then opened the second-generation Lyon cafes (LOUTSA, Slake, Signé Extrait, KAOVA) that now anchor the wider scene.
Production
- filter equipment
- V60, Chemex, Aeropress
- roastery location
- Lyon (with second roastery in Strasbourg)
Café
3 Rue Abbé Rozier, 69001 Lyon