Lomi

Lomi occupies a dual role uncommon even in Paris's crowded specialty scene: it operates as a working roastery and a neighborhood café out of the 18th arrondissement, making it — according to The Coffee Vine — the only specialty coffee roaster in that part of the city. The operation has since extended beyond Montmartre, with a second presence in the Drôme, a rural region in southeastern France, giving Lomi an unusually wide geographic footprint for a French independent roaster.

The business has grown primarily through B2B wholesale, supplying restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, and bakeries across France with both coffee and equipment. Client rosters include Mamiche, the acclaimed Parisian bakery chain, whose co-founders requested an espresso bar setup rather than automatic machines even at high volume — a telling indicator of how Lomi positions its wholesale offer. The Biography hotel group is another account, where Lomi's arrangement centers on ongoing staff training to maintain consistency across service periods. This training-forward model extends to a public-facing workshop program for professional baristas, which runs during the week at the Paris location.

Lomi's sourcing operates under what the roastery calls its "parcelles" program — long-term relationships with a curated set of producers, framed explicitly around terroir and vintage expression. The vocabulary is deliberate: where much of the specialty world leans on country-of-origin shorthand, Lomi draws from French viticultural language to position each lot as a site-specific harvest rather than a commodity purchase. Sprudge has noted that the roastery covers "both angles of the coffee spectrum," which maps onto their commercial reality — accessible, restaurant-friendly blends on one end, and origin-forward offerings on the other, with the product range calibrated to what each venue needs.