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Lyon · France

Café Mokxa

Since 2011 · Sadry James, Rosamund James

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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

destoning
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head roaster
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roaster machine
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filter equipment
V60, Chemex, Aeropress
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roastery location
Lyon (with second roastery in Strasbourg)
espresso equipment
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Café

3 Rue Abbé Rozier, 69001 Lyon

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