ORBISTEA & COFFEE MERCHANTS IN PARIS 15 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Tea & Coffee Merchants in Paris
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Bacha Coffee roasts Arabica beans in small batches, also offering decaffeinated coffees and gift-boxed blends through its Paris presence. Dammann Frères sells loose-leaf teas and infusions, with Jardin Bleu among the blends associated with the French house. La Tisanière works with herbal infusions, pairing flavours such as yuzu and mint alongside single-herb options including verveine.
Bacha Coffee roasts 100% Arabica specialty beans in small batches, sourced directly from growers worldwide. The Marrakech-born house also sells naturally CO2-decaffeinated coffees and gift-boxed blends.
Best for Bacha Coffee roasts 100% Arabica specialty beans in small batches
Bacha Coffee traces its identity to Dar el Bacha, a palace in Marrakech that gives the house its name and supplies the design language for its boutiques worldwide — a heritage the brand replicated in miniature when it built its three-storey Champs-Élysées flagship, described on its own site as 'a Parisian reinterpretation of Bacha Coffee's birthplace.' The house sells only 100% Arabica specialty coffee, sourced directly from planters across Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, and roasted in small batches using a traditional low-temperature drum method rather than industrial shock-roasting; because each harvest behaves differently, beans are hand-roasted separately by variety. Decaffeinated coffees go through a natural CO2 extraction process rather than chemical solvents, preserving the flavor profile of the original bean. Signature offerings include the Signature Nomad Collection, gift-boxed coffees wrapped in destination-themed artwork, and coffee bag sachets designed for brewing with nothing more than hot water. The brand has expanded rapidly in the past two years, opening large-format boutiques that combine a coffee room, retail counter, and takeaway service — including a 352-square-metre address inside Bangkok's Siam Paragon and a 250-square-metre debut at Riyadh's Solitaire Mall — extending a format built around slow ritual rather than quick service.
Founded in 2013 by David Flynn, Thomas Lehoux (of Ten Belles) and Anselme Blayney in Paris's 19th arrondissement, near Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, roasting beans to order and shipping the same day.
Best for Roast-to-order blends like La Pantoufle, roasted fresh and shipped same-day from Belleville.
Belleville Brûlerie — operating under the umbrella name Cafés Belleville — was founded in September 2013 by David Flynn (previously of Télescope), Thomas Lehoux, and Anselme Blayney (both of Ten Belles and Le Bal Café), combining a specialty roastery with two Paris coffee shops in the 19th arrondissement. The roastery's own site describes a made-to-order model: customers select a quantity of a named blend — such as 'La Pantoufle' or 'Château Belleville,' both listed by name and price on the site — and the beans are roasted and shipped the same day rather than pulled from pre-roasted stock. The catalog runs both whole bean and ground formats, alongside equipment (grinders, filters, espresso machines) and a subscription service for repeat orders, plus in-person tasting workshops at the boutique. Belleville's three founders each came from established Paris specialty-coffee ventures before combining forces, which places this roastery at the origin point of much of the city's current wave of independent coffee shops rather than as a later entrant into an already-established scene. The same-day roast-and-ship model remains the operational detail that most separates it from competitors selling from standing inventory.
Founded in Paris in 1919 by Arthur Betjeman, who trained in the tea trade in Dublin and London, and Percy Barton — a house of single-estate teas and Earl Grey-style blends now over a century old, with complimentary tastings and a B2B division.
Best for Single-estate teas from Japan, China, Darjeeling, Assam and Ceylon
Betjeman & Barton dates to 1919, when Arthur Betjeman — an Englishman who had studied tea expertise in Dublin and London — chose Paris over London to open his own house with partner Percy Barton. The pairing gave the brand its founding identity: British tea-trade training applied to a French retail sensibility, a mix the house still describes as “British distinction with French libertarian spirit.”
The core of the business is single-estate tea — sourced lots from Japan, China, Darjeeling, Ceylon, Assam and Formosa sold without blending, for drinkers who want a specific garden or harvest rather than a house style. Alongside those sit flavored blends built around Earl Grey, jasmine, mint, chocolate and spice, plus a Grand Cru tier and organic and seasonal selections; herbal infusions, rooibos and fruit tisanes round out a catalog built for range rather than a narrow specialty. Two named blends worth seeking out are Caviar de Yuzu and Memory, a green tea finished with cherry. Shops offer a complimentary taste with purchase, a detail that matters for a range this wide, and the company also runs a professional B2B arm and franchise program — a working merchant, not just a boutique, more than a hundred years into the business.
Founded 2013 in the 19th arrondissement by David Flynn, Thomas Lehoux (of Ten Belles) and Anselme Blayney, among the first specialty roasters in a Paris that then had only a handful of aligned cafes.
Best for The 19th-arrondissement roastery three Paris coffee veterans opened together in September 2013.
Belleville Brûlerie operates under the brand name Cafés Belleville from the 19th arrondissement of Paris. It was founded in September 2013 by three people already established in the city's coffee scene: David Flynn, formerly of Télescope; and Thomas Lehoux and Anselme Blayney, both previously of Ten Belles and Le Bal Café. Rather than opening as a standalone café, the founders built a combined roastery-and-shop model — the site describes selecting a named blend by quantity, then roasting and shipping it the same day, so beans reach the customer freshly roasted rather than pulled from held stock. Two named blends appear directly on the site's shop pages, La Pantoufle and Château Belleville, both hundred-percent arabica. Beyond the roastery, the operation runs a subscription program, sells brewing equipment, and hosts tasting workshops at its Paris boutique.
Paris’s 1880 roaster — Rue Saint-Honoré’s original specialty coffee, pre-wave by a century.
Best for Paris’s 1880 roaster — Rue Saint-Honoré’s original specialty coffee
Verlet's own site dates the business to 1880 at its original address, 256 Rue Saint-Honoré, describing itself as the oldest house to master artisanal roasting in Paris — 'la plus ancienne maison à maîtriser une torréfaction artisanale.' The roasting itself now happens a short distance away, at 27 Rue de Montpensier behind the Palais Royal gardens, where the company says beans are roasted according to their individual character and the day's weather rather than on a fixed cycle: 'les grains sont cuits à cœur en fonction de leur nature et du temps qu'il fait.' The Saint-Honoré address retains a historic tasting salon, and the shop specializes in single-origin coffees — 'cafés de pure origine' — sold alongside curated teas, honey, jam, chocolate, and biscuits. Verlet predates the current wave of Paris specialty roasters by more than a century, and unlike newer entrants built around direct-trade sourcing narratives, its distinguishing claim is continuity of place and craft: the same neighborhood, an artisanal roasting method unchanged in principle since the nineteenth century, and a tasting room still open in the original building rather than relocated or franchised.
Compagnie & Co, which describes itself as the oldest French tea brand, was founded in Paris in 1848 by the Meric family as a chocolate importer before pivoting to tea, and sells loose-leaf and bagged teas, rooibos and herbal infusions blended in France, including steam-aromatised and organic-certified ranges.
Best for French tea blends from an 1848 house in black-and-gold tins
Compagnie Coloniale traces to 1848 in Paris, founded by the Méric family and generally cited as France's oldest tea brand. It began as an importer and distributor of chocolate before shifting its focus to tea, opening its first boutique at 19 avenue de l'Opéra - an address that stayed the brand's emblematic shop for years - and inaugurating its first factory on rue Lesueur, near the Arc de Triomphe, in 1850, an operation that at its height employed some 450 people. The house built its identity on a marine-anchor logo and black-and-gold striped tin boxes that are still recognizable today, and it renamed itself Compagnie & Co in 2022 while keeping the historic mark. The current range runs to loose-leaf and bagged teas, rooibos and herbal infusions, all blended and packaged in France, spanning green, black and white teas, matcha, and accessories, with a steam-aromatised range and organic-certified blends alongside the core catalogue. For a house closing in on 180 years, the through-line is continuity of place and symbol - the same anchor, the same striped tin, carried from an 1848 chocolate importer's storefront near the Opéra to a present-day online shop still selling tea under a name that has changed only once.
Compagnie Coloniale traces its founding to 1848 at 19 Avenue de l'Opéra in Paris, positioning itself as one of France's oldest tea houses, still selling heritage-style blends packaged in its traditional tins.
Best for French tea blends, flavored teas and herbal infusions
Compagnie Coloniale's own account of its history reaches back to 1848, when the house was established at 19 Avenue de l'Opéra in central Paris — a founding date that, if accurate, would put it among the oldest tea merchants still trading in France, predating better-known Paris houses like Mariage Frères (1854) and Betjeman & Barton (1919). The name itself is a period piece: “Compagnie Coloniale” reflects the 19th-century French trade language of the era it was founded in, when tea, coffee and other goods moved through import networks into Paris grocers and specialty houses.
What survives of that history in the current business is the packaging language more than one famous blend — heritage-style tins presented as a through-line back to the house's founding, sold alongside a broader modern tea catalog. Where houses like Mariage Frères or Dammann built their public identity around a signature blend (Marco Polo, Jardin Bleu), Compagnie Coloniale leans more on the claim of seniority itself as the reason to choose it. For a visitor, that makes it a stop less about one particular tea and more about the idea of drinking from a Paris institution that predates the Second Empire.
Paris specialty-coffee pioneer founded 2010 by Antoine Netien and Tom Clark, credited with introducing flat whites and third-wave roasting to the city. Roasts its own beans in Romainville and runs cafes in Paris, Tokyo and Osaka.
Best for Flat white Tom Clark and Antoine Nétien brought to Paris's 7th arrondissement
Coutume was founded in 2010, and its first roastery-coffee shop opened in Paris in 2011. Tom Clark and Antoine Nétien helped establish the business around specialty coffee, direct producer relationships and precise roasting rather than standardized blends. The first café in the 7th arrondissement became part of the early specialty-coffee wave in Paris, while Coutume later expanded its roasting and café footprint. For a shopper, the useful distinction is the coffee itself: traceable origins, house roasting and brewing methods intended to show differences between lots rather than mask them.
Dammann traces its royal tea privilege to 1692, granted by Louis XIV, and was refounded as a modern tea house in 1925 by brothers Robert and Pierre Dammann — now known for its Jardin Bleu blends and wide single-origin range.
Best for French tea blends, loose-leaf tea and infusions
Dammann Frères carries two founding dates, and both matter to how the house tells its own story. The first is 1692, when King Louis XIV granted a royal privilege to a Monsieur Dammann — of Dutch origin — giving him the exclusive right to sell tea, coffee, chocolate and sorbets in France, part of the crown's practice of selling trade monopolies to raise money for war. The second is 1925, when brothers Robert and Pierre Dammann built the modern commercial maison on that inherited name, turning a centuries-old royal grant into a working tea business rather than a historical curiosity.
That house is what operates today: an extensive catalog spanning black, green, white and oolong teas, plus infusions, accessories and gift sets, sold through its own boutiques — including a newer Nantes shop — and online. Jardin Bleu is the house's signature blend line, the closest thing it has to a flagship recipe, though the broader catalog runs wide rather than narrow. What distinguishes Dammann from other old Paris tea houses isn't a single tea so much as the length of the claim behind it — a royal document from the reign of the Sun King standing behind a 20th-century family business still trading under the same name three centuries later.
La Tisanière draws on nearly 50 years of Provençal herbal tradition, blending organic tisanes for sleep, detox and digestion alongside flavored infusions like yuzu-mint and red berry-hibiscus, plus classic single herbs such as verveine and thyme.
Best for Sleep, detox and digestion alongside flavored infusions like yuzu-mint and red berry-hibiscus
La Tisaniere traces its roots to Provence, where the brand describes drawing on nearly 50 years of regional herbal tradition, carried forward through roughly two decades of its own product development under the tagline "transmettre le bien-etre" -- transmitting wellbeing. The range splits between traditional single-herb tisanes (mint, verveine, thyme, chamomile) and a certified-organic line built around function: detox, fat-burning, digestion, sleep and "belly-slimming" blends sit alongside flavored organic infusions such as red berries with hibiscus, yuzu with mint, and citrus with ginger. A separate "wellness infusions" category covers similar functional ground -- post-meal, drainage, sleep -- while a vitamins-and-minerals line brings in Siberian ginseng, moringa, mate and matcha rather than sticking to tisanes alone. The brand frames its Provencal origin explicitly around the region's markets -- spices, olives, fresh produce -- as the source of its approach to flavor and wellness, positioning La Tisaniere closer to an apothecary-style infusion house than a classic tea merchant. The company maintains an active blog and social presence covering beauty, nutrition and eco-friendly living alongside its product catalog, extending the wellness framing beyond what's in the tin.
Paris coffee company founded in 2010 in the 18th arrondissement by Aleaume Paturle and Australian barista Paul Arnephy; runs a Rue Marcadet cafe and boutique, a barista school, and a roastery now based in the Drome.
Best for Coffee, École Lomi barista classes and brewing gear
Lomi operates three connected businesses under one name, all detailed on its own site: a coffee shop and boutique at 3 ter Rue Marcadet in Paris's 18th arrondissement, a training facility next door at 3 bis Rue Marcadet called École Lomi, and a roastery — described as 'torréfacteurs certifiés,' certified roasters — located outside Paris in Le Poët Laval, in the Drôme region. The company frames this structure as a deliberate three-part model: 'café, formation et équipement, le triptyque Lomi' (coffee, training, and equipment, the Lomi triptych), positioning itself as a working coffee-education hub rather than a café that happens to also roast. Sourcing is described as long-term relationships with selected producers, with the site stating that 'each harvest expresses a terroir,' language that ties the shop's retail coffee back to the school's technical training rather than treating the two as separate operations. For a visitor, that combination is the distinguishing detail: the 18th-arrondissement address functions simultaneously as a retail shop and the public face of a barista-training operation whose actual coursework and roasting happen at two separate, named locations rather than behind a single counter.
Machi Machi, Taiwan's cheese-foam bubble tea brand, pours matcha lattes and fruit teas from rue Chabanais and its Printemps Haussmann counter in Paris.
Best for Taiwanese cheese-foam bubble tea and gourmet teas
Machi Machi is the Taiwanese bubble tea chain built around Cream Cheese Foam tea — a savory-sweet layer of whipped cheese cream poured over black, oolong or jasmine tea — a format the brand is widely credited with popularizing and that has made it a fixture of Asia's tea scene, with a following that reportedly includes Taiwanese singer Jay Chou. The brand runs two Paris locations: its main shop at 5 rue Chabanais near Pyramides in the 2nd arrondissement, and a counter inside Printemps Haussmann, the Boulevard Haussmann department store's food hall in the 9th. The Printemps menu leans into the house repertoire — oolong tea finished with cream foam, iced jasmine green tea, matcha lattes, and seasonal fruit-and-jelly creations — alongside the classic bubble tea format of tapioca pearls in milk tea. Machi Machi positions itself, in its own words, around taste, comfort and craft rather than novelty alone, and keeps an active French Instagram account documenting new drops under the Machi Machi Paris name. For visitors browsing Printemps' food hall, it is the department store's answer to Taipei's tea-shop culture: a quick, photogenic stop for a cheese-foam tea rather than a sit-down tea room.
Best for French-blended teas, tea gifts and teaware
The Mariage family traded tea from the seventeenth century — ancestors negotiated for the French East India Company — and brothers Henri and Édouard founded their wholesale house in Paris in 1854. Its transformation came in the 1980s, when the firm opened to the public and effectively invented French tea culture as a luxury category: hundreds of teas from every producing country, the black-clad tea sommeliers, the colonial-comptoir interiors of dark wood and brass scales, and blends — Marco Polo above all — whose perfumed opulence became reference points worldwide. The black canisters are as recognizable in their category as any luxury packaging in France. The Faubourg Saint-Honoré boutique concentrates the range; the historic Marais house adds a tea salon and museum. Marco Polo is the canonical first tin; the single-estate Darjeelings show the sommelier side of the house.
Smell before buying — the counters open any canister on request — and take Marco Polo home in the black tin; loose leaf, never the compromise of bags.
Founded in 1986 by François-Xavier Delmas and a group of friends, Palais des Thés built its identity on visiting tea gardens directly rather than buying through brokers, and now runs more than 150 shops worldwide.
Best for Terroir-sourced teas from François-Xavier Delmas
Palais des Thés was founded in 1986 by François-Xavier Delmas, alongside a group of around 40 friends, at a moment when the Paris tea trade was dominated by long-established family houses. Delmas's approach was to source differently rather than compete on heritage he didn't have: growing up around wine culture gave him an early feel for terroir — how a specific patch of land and its handling shape flavor — and he applied that thinking to tea by traveling directly to producing regions rather than buying through importers.
Over roughly three decades he built relationships across tea-growing areas in Asia, Africa and South America, working alongside the farmers and producers themselves to understand regional techniques and quality at the source. That direct-sourcing model, sometimes described in-house as the work of “Tea Seekers” (Chercheurs de Thé), became the company's core differentiator against older Paris houses selling through intermediaries. From a single shop in the late 1980s, Palais des Thés has grown into one of Europe's larger specialist tea retailers, with more than 150 shops worldwide. For a visitor, the pitch isn't a historic name but a traceable one — teas the house can describe by garden and grower rather than only by blend.
Specialty coffee roaster founded in Paris in 2009 by Christophe Servell, son and grandson of roasters, with backing from entrepreneur Jeremie Trigan. By its own account France's first specialty coffee roaster, founded 2009; now operates roughly a dozen French locations plus outposts in South Korea.
Best for Competition-grade single origins from Christophe Servell's 2009 specialty roastery.
Terres de Café was founded in 2009 by Christophe Servell and describes itself as a pioneer of specialty coffee in France, operating independently with physical boutiques in Paris, Lille, and Versailles alongside European online sales. The company's competition record, listed on its own site, is unusually dense for a French roaster: Best Espresso of France in 2024, World Champion Ibrik in both 2023 and 2024, Best Coffee Roaster of France in 2015, seven French championship titles overall, and six Epicures awards for fine groceries. Roasting takes place in the Île-de-France region using Loring roasters, which the company describes as carbon-neutral equipment, and its stated sourcing model works directly with small producers and cooperatives across Africa and Latin America. Servell is quoted on the site framing the business around its supply chain rather than its retail presence: 'without our producer partners, we don't exist.' The distinguishing fact here isn't heritage — Terres de Café is younger than most Paris specialty roasters — but a competition record that is verifiable and specific rather than a marketing claim, spanning both barista-skill contests (Ibrik, espresso) and a wider run of French national titles.
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