LAB Tostadores

LAB began as, in its own words, "un laboratorio de tostado de café de alta calidad" — a high-quality coffee-roasting laboratory — built to develop exclusive micro-batches for Buenos Aires' gastronomic sector rather than for retail volume. That origin still shapes the business: alongside bagged beans and capsules for home use, LAB runs a Coffee Shop & Training Center in Palermo, teaching modern extraction techniques and running courses for baristas and coffee professionals rather than only selling to them.

The roasting side leans on defined profiles the company says are built to standardize quality bean to bean, and the current single-origin list includes Colombian micro-lots such as "La Marianela" and "La Catalina," sold alongside broader blends and a chocolate line. An online shop ships nationwide across Argentina, with bank-transfer discounts and installment payments through MODO extending the training-center's Buenos Aires focus to customers elsewhere in the country. The addition of a Drambuie liqueur line to the catalog marks a departure from the pure-coffee positioning of the roasting lab, suggesting a shop that has grown into a broader specialty-goods retailer even as its roasting and training identity remains the core of the business.