What Coutume Café is known for
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.
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.
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Best for — Flat white Tom Clark and Antoine Nétien brought to Paris's 7th arrondissement
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