Paris · France
Coutume
Coutume is one of 4 Paris roasters tracked on day9, in Île-de-France.
Since 2011 · Antoine Netien, Tom Clark
Overview
Coutume opened in 2011 on Rue de Babylone in Paris's 7th arrondissement, founded by French roaster Antoine Netien and Australian Tom Clark. Netien was named Meilleur Torréfacteur de France that same year by the Comité Français du Café. The original 170 m² space — a converted kebab shop — combined a public roasting bar with siphon, cold drip and La Marzocco Strada espresso service, and built one of the first wholesale routes for specialty coffee in Paris, supplying 60+ bars, restaurants and hotels across the city.
Known for
- Co-founders Antoine Netien (Best Roaster in France 2011) and Tom Clark
- Pioneers of Paris third-wave specialty coffee, opened Rue de Babylone 2011
- Public roasting bar with siphon, cold drip and La Marzocco Strada at flagship
- Wholesale supplier to 60+ Paris bars, restaurants and hotels
- International expansion to Tokyo (Aoyama 2016, multiple Japan locations since)
Why it matters
Coutume helped invent the modern Paris specialty coffee scene at a moment when French cafe coffee was, by Netien's own admission, mostly Cafés Richard and Lavazza. The wholesale route — building a network of 60+ cafe and restaurant accounts willing to serve traceable single origin — is the infrastructure on which the rest of Paris third-wave was built.
Production
- head roaster
- Antoine Netien
- filter equipment
- siphon, cold drip, V60
- roastery location
- 11th arrondissement, Paris
- espresso equipment
- La Marzocco Strada
Café
47 Rue de Babylone, 75007 Paris
Recognitions
- Meilleur Torréfacteur de France — Antoine Netien (2011)