Montreal has quietly become one of the great coffee roasting cities in North America. Not quietly in the sense that nobody knows about it — four Montreal operations were ranked among the top 100 best coffee shops on the continent in 2026 — but quietly in the sense that the city itself does not announce its coffee culture the way Seattle or Melbourne do. Montreal's roasting scene is serious, obsessive, and deeply community-driven. And it is bigger than most people realize.
This guide covers every coffee roaster operating in Montreal in 2026 — from the world-ranked heavyweights to the nano-roasters that most coffee guides have never heard of. It is the most comprehensive list of Montreal coffee roasters ever written and it was put together by the team at EZPZ Coffee, roasting specialists based at Canadian Roasting Society right here in Montreal's southwest.
Whether you are a coffee lover, a café owner looking for a roasting partner, a brand considering private label coffee, or simply someone who wants to understand the full scope of what Montreal's roasting scene has become — this is the guide.
The Infrastructure Behind Montreal's Roasting Scene
Before diving into the individual roasters, it is worth understanding what makes Montreal's roasting scene possible. The single most important institution is Canadian Roasting Society.
Founded by Andrew Kyres of Tunnel Espresso and Scott Rao, one of the world's most respected coffee consultants and a co-founder of Café Myriade, Canadian Roasting Society is a community co-roasting space located at 3780 Rue Saint-Patrick in Montreal's southwest. The facility houses professional Probat roasting machines alongside all the equipment needed to operate a serious specialty coffee production program — without the enormous capital cost of building a private roastery.
The result is that Montreal has a disproportionately large number of serious specialty roasters for a city its size. The CRS model allows micro and nano roasters to operate at a level of quality that would otherwise require millions in infrastructure investment. This is why you will see so many Montreal roasters on this list sharing the same address — and why the quality across the board is so consistently high.
EZPZ Coffee roasts at Canadian Roasting Society. When you create a custom branded coffee bag with EZPZ, your coffee is produced in the same facility that has incubated some of the most exciting roasting talent in Canada.
The World Ranked — Montreal's Elite Roasters
These four Montreal operations were named among the top 100 best coffee shops in all of North America in 2026 by The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops — evaluated by over 200 judges across more than 4,600 establishments. No other Canadian city had four operations on this list.
1. Café Pista — World Ranked #34
6524 Boulevard Saint-Laurent & 1450 Rue City Councillors · cafepista.com
Café Pista began as a coffee bicycle — a mobile espresso service powered by human effort and genuine passion. It has grown into Montreal's most internationally recognized coffee operation and Canada's highest-ranked café in 2026. Founded by Maxime Richard with roasting led by Alexandre Séguin, Pista sources beans personally from producers and roasts at Canadian Roasting Society with a philosophy centered on transparency, traceability, and community.
The Rosemont flagship on Saint-Laurent is warm, wood-lined, and perpetually busy. The downtown location near the Quartier des Spectacles serves the professional community with the same level of care. Both locations offer a rotating selection of single origin coffees that change based on what is tasting best — not what is easiest to source.
What Pista represents for Montreal: proof that a city can build world-class specialty coffee from scratch through passion and community. They were not born from a franchise or a capital infusion. They grew from a bicycle.
2. Café Saint-Henri — World Ranked #60
3632 Notre-Dame Street West (multiple locations) · cafestahenri.com
Café Saint-Henri is the roaster that built the bridge between specialty coffee and everyday Montreal life. Since 2011 they have operated from their flagship in the working-class neighborhood of Saint-Henri — a choice that reflects their philosophy of making great coffee accessible to everyone, not just the specialty coffee initiated.
Their roasting program is meticulous and educational. They run workshops and cupping events designed to bring producers and consumers closer together. Their sourcing is direct trade wherever possible. And their five locations across the city maintain a consistency of quality that is genuinely difficult to achieve at scale.
The Mile-Ex roastery headquarters is a destination in itself — a large, light-filled space where you can watch the roasting happen and have one of the finest cups of coffee in the city in the same visit.
3. Micro Espresso Bar — World Ranked #89
3496 Avenue du Parc
Micro is the anti-café café. No food, no elaborate menu, no Instagram aesthetic. Just precision extractions, rotating single origin batch brews, and some of the most genuinely knowledgeable staff in the city. The judges who ranked Micro at number 89 in North America described it as the place where Montreal's true coffee lovers go for their daily cup.
Their sourcing rotates through some of the finest producers available to Canadian roasters — people like Wilton Benitez and select cooperatives in Ethiopia and Colombia. The batch brew changes daily. The espresso is calibrated with obsessive precision.
Micro is where you go when you are serious about coffee and do not need the surrounding experience to justify the trip.
4. Café Éclair — World Ranked #91
1 Rue Saint-Viateur East
Café Éclair occupies a specific and deliberate niche in Montreal's roasting scene. All of their coffees are sourced from roasters outside Canada — an intentional choice to introduce Montreal coffee drinkers to the different philosophies and flavor profiles that define the global specialty coffee landscape.
The result is an education in coffee more than a café in the traditional sense. The slow bar format, the intimate service style, and the constant rotation of international roasters make Café Éclair the most intellectually stimulating coffee experience in the city.
The CRS Community — Roasters at Canadian Roasting Society
Canadian Roasting Society is home to the largest concentration of serious specialty roasters in Montreal. These brands share the facility, share knowledge, and collectively represent some of the most exciting coffee being produced in Canada.
5. Traffic Coffee
trafficcoffee.ca
Traffic were the first roasters to commit to the Canadian Roasting Society from day one. They roast micro and nano lots with extraordinary precision and their coffees are served in some of Montreal's most respected venues including Café Melbourne and Nocturne Café. Traffic represents the entrepreneurial energy that the CRS model was designed to support — a serious roasting operation that would have been impossible without shared infrastructure.
6. Structure Coffee Roasters
structurecoffee.ca
Structure is one of Montreal's most respected wholesale roasters — supplying cafés and restaurants across the city and beyond with consistently excellent specialty coffee. They roast at CRS and wholesale their beans to a growing roster of clients. For cafés looking for a reliable, high-quality roasting partner in Montreal, Structure is one of the first names mentioned.
7. Canal Roasters
canalroasters.com
Canal Roasters takes their name from the Lachine Canal that runs through the neighborhood of their roasting home. Their mission is to highlight the humans in the supply chain as much as the coffee itself — traceability and producer relationships are central to everything they do. They were early members of the CRS community and have built a devoted following in Montreal's southwest.
8. Ambros Coffee Roasters
1 Rue Clark
Ambros is a family operation — two brothers and their father running one of Mile End's most beautiful and carefully considered cafés. Their sourcing is serious and their commitment to quality is personal in a way that only a family business can sustain. Their Ethiopian Guji natural is one of the finest coffees available at this price point in Montreal. A relatively recent addition to the CRS community, Ambros has quickly become one of the most talked-about roasters in the city.
9. Jungle Livraison Café
junglemtl.com
Jungle approaches coffee with the same values they bring to their broader mission: sustainability, community, and genuine care for the people behind the product. They roast at CRS and have built a loyal following through their delivery model and their genuine commitment to values-aligned sourcing.
10. Za and Klo
A woman-owned micro-roaster at CRS with a distinctive approach to sourcing and a growing reputation in Montreal's specialty community. Za and Klo represents the kind of new voice that the CRS model makes possible — a serious operation that would not exist without the shared infrastructure.
11. Colorfull Coffee
colorfullcoffee.com
Colorfull Coffee brings an expressive, joyful visual identity to a serious roasting program. Their branding is among the most distinctive in Montreal's specialty coffee scene and their coffees are consistently well-sourced and carefully roasted at CRS.
12. Melk Coffee
melkcoffee.ca
Melk is a friendly and unpretentious specialty café and roaster with a warm community atmosphere and genuinely excellent coffee. Their rotating single origins are roasted at CRS and their café locations in Montreal attract loyal regulars who appreciate both the quality and the welcome.
13. Mayan Mountain Coffee
mayanmountain.ca
Mayan Mountain brings a specific geographic focus to their sourcing — Central American origins with an emphasis on producer relationships and ethical trade. Their roasting at CRS produces coffees with a distinctive regional character that sets them apart in Montreal's diverse specialty landscape.
14. Yamabiko Coffee
A Japanese-influenced roaster at CRS with a precision-first approach to both sourcing and roasting. Yamabiko reflects the influence of Japanese coffee culture — which has shaped Montreal's specialty scene more than most people realize — through meticulous attention to every variable in the roasting process.
15. Locomotive Coffee
An emerging roaster at CRS building a reputation for interesting lots and thoughtful sourcing. Locomotive is one of the newer members of the CRS community and represents the continued growth of Montreal's specialty roasting ecosystem.
16. Malomi Coffee
A micro-roaster at CRS focused on quality over volume. Malomi is one of the smaller operations in the community but no less serious in their approach to sourcing and roasting.
17. Zaman Coffee
A roaster at CRS bringing a distinct cultural perspective to Montreal's specialty coffee scene. Zaman's coffees reflect a commitment to origins and producers that connect to specific communities and stories.
18. Le Club Coffee
Le Club operates at CRS with a focus on community and accessibility — making great specialty coffee approachable for a broad Montreal audience while maintaining the quality standards that the CRS environment demands.
19. Bad Wild Coffee
A roaster at CRS with a bold brand identity and a serious roasting program. Bad Wild channels irreverence into a genuine commitment to quality that has earned them a following in Montreal's younger specialty coffee community.
20. Café Escape and Escape Lab
An early CRS member with a New Zealand-influenced approach to specialty coffee. Escape has built a reputation for clean, bright roast profiles and a welcoming café environment that reflects the best of Southern Hemisphere coffee culture transplanted to Montreal.
21. EZPZ Coffee
3780 Rue Saint-Patrick · ezpz.coffee
EZPZ Coffee is a full-service white label and private label coffee producer roasting at Canadian Roasting Society. Unlike most CRS members who build consumer-facing coffee brands, EZPZ is built to put other brands' names on specialty coffee. They source traceable, 80-plus SCA scored beans from Ethiopia, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, and beyond, roast them fresh at CRS, and produce custom branded bags for restaurants, hotels, boutiques, gyms, and brands across Canada and the USA — with zero minimum order and full custom design always included. EZPZ is the infrastructure that allows Canadian businesses of any size to have their own branded specialty coffee without owning a roastery.
The Institutions — Montreal's Historic Roasters
22. Caffè Olimpico
124 Rue Saint-Viateur Ouest & Old Montreal · caffeolimpico.com
Caffè Olimpico has been roasting and serving espresso in Mile End since the 1970s. The Italian tradition is fully intact — short, strong, and served with the kind of warmth that only comes from decades of serving the same community. The original Saint-Viateur location is Montreal's most historically significant coffee space and one of the most authentic Italian café experiences in North America. The bomboloni remain legendary.
23. Brûlerie Saint-Denis
3967 Rue Saint-Denis · bruleriesaintdenis.com
One of Montreal's oldest specialty roasters, Brûlerie Saint-Denis has been roasting on the Plateau for decades. They represent the old guard of Montreal specialty coffee before the third wave terminology existed. Their approach is classic and consistent — a wide range of origins and blends roasted to serve a broad audience without compromising on quality. A Montreal institution that has outlasted dozens of trends.
24. Le Brûloir
318 Rue Fleury Ouest
Le Brûloir has been part of Montreal's coffee landscape for nearly a decade. Their reputation is built on beans worth picking up — carefully sourced, thoughtfully roasted, and served in a space that takes coffee seriously without taking itself too seriously. Their Fleury Ouest location in Ahuntsic has become a neighborhood anchor.
25. Café Myriade
4627 Rue Saint-Denis (multiple locations) · cafemyriade.com
Café Myriade has been one of the most important anchors of Montreal's specialty coffee scene since 2008. Co-founded by Chris Capell and Scott Rao — who would go on to co-found Canadian Roasting Society — Myriade set the standard for what a serious specialty espresso bar could look like in Montreal at a time when the concept was still new. Five locations across the city maintain a consistent level of quality and their wholesale roasting program supplies some of the city's best restaurants and cafés.
26. Dispatch Coffee
4231 Boulevard Saint-Laurent (multiple locations) · dispatchcoffee.ca
Dispatch began as a food truck in 2012 and has grown into one of Montreal's most beloved specialty roasters and café brands. Their Saint-Laurent location features an open counter format where baristas actively engage customers in conversation about the coffees on offer. Their subscription service ships their signature roasts across Canada and the USA. For a roaster with genuine ethical commitments and consistently outstanding coffee, Dispatch is one of the most reliable names in the city.
The Specialists and Rising Stars
27. 94 Celsius
94celcius.com
94 Celsius is a pure roaster — no physical café, no retail location, just an online and wholesale model that allows them to focus entirely on bean quality. Their approach is designed for coffee drinkers who want to step off the beaten path of commercial coffee without falling into profiles that are disorienting for the uninitiated. Their honest and educational approach to coffee content has built a strong online following across Quebec.
28. Zab Coffee Roasters
zabcafe.com
Zab is one of Montreal's most interesting multi-roaster experiences. Their rotating selection of specialty lots from producers around the world is curated with genuine care. The famous freezer of special coffees at the back of their café is legendary among Montreal's serious coffee enthusiasts — a collection of rare and exceptional lots not found anywhere else in the city.
29. Kittel Coffee
kittelcoffee.com
Kittel is one of Montreal's most respected wholesale roasters — their coffees are found in dozens of cafés and restaurants across the city including Café Rosé, Tunnel Espresso, and Pâtisserie Bernice. Their roasting program produces reliably excellent coffees with consistent quality that makes them a trusted partner for café owners who need to know their coffee will be right every time.
30. Kujira Coffee
A Japanese-inspired precision roaster that brings the meticulous attention to detail characteristic of Japanese coffee culture to Montreal's specialty scene. Kujira occupies a specific niche in the city's roasting ecosystem and has built a devoted following among coffee professionals and enthusiasts who appreciate the precision-first philosophy.
31. Narval Coffee
A micro-roaster with a distinctive visual identity founded by siblings with a genuine passion for the craft. Narval represents the next generation of Montreal specialty roasters — brands built with as much attention to design and storytelling as to the quality of the beans themselves.
32. Union Microtorréfacteur
The specialty division of Café Union — a Montreal coffee institution with over a century of history. Union Microtorréfacteur represents the remarkable journey of a traditional coffee company reinventing itself for the specialty era while bringing its deep Montreal roots and community connections to everything it does.
33. Barista Microtorréfacteur
A specialist in custom blends for wholesale clients — essentially operating as a contract roaster that develops house coffees for cafés and restaurants across Montreal. For a café owner who wants to develop a signature house blend rather than purchasing a single origin, Barista Microtorréfacteur is one of the most valuable partners in the city.
34. La Finca Café
1067 de Bleury Street · Downtown Montreal
La Finca has been sourcing directly from the Don Eli Farm in Costa Rica since 2012 — one of the most enduring direct trade relationships in Montreal's coffee community. Their commitment to ethical stability for the family-run farm they work with is reflected in the quality and consistency of their coffee. Beyond their café they also offer a range of fine local products, microbrewery beers, and natural wines.
35. PS Roasters
A Montreal specialty roaster whose coffees are found in several cafés and retail locations across the city. PS Roasters is part of the broader ecosystem of small-batch specialty producers that makes Montreal's coffee scene so rich and diverse.
36. Biodynamic Coffee
A roaster with a specific commitment to biodynamic farming practices — sourcing exclusively from certified biodynamic producers and bringing a distinctly ecological philosophy to Montreal's specialty roasting community.
37. Rabbit Hole Roasters
rabbitholeroasters.ca
Rabbit Hole began roasting at Canadian Roasting Society in December 2018. They have built a reputation for rare and unusual origins — they were the first and only roasters in Canada to offer Yunnan coffee from China. Their coffees can be found at select cafés across Montreal including Café Lali in Griffintown and they have been served at the Montreal Google offices. For adventurous coffee drinkers who want something genuinely different, Rabbit Hole is the place to look.
38. September Café
4021 Rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest
September is primarily known as one of Montreal's most beloved café atmospheres — the surfer-owner aesthetic and legendary summer terrasse have earned it a devoted following. But their in-house roasting program is one of the city's best-kept secrets. The coffees they produce for their own use are thoughtfully sourced and carefully roasted, reflecting the same intentionality that defines everything else about the September experience.
39. Café Falco
5605 Avenue de Gaspé
Café Falco's Japanese-inspired aesthetic extends into their approach to roasting — precise, minimal, and deeply respectful of the raw material. Their in-house roasting program produces coffees that reward the kind of slow, attentive drinking that the Falco environment encourages.
40. Sensory House
A specialty roaster focused on the sensory experience of coffee — developing profiles designed to highlight the most distinctive and memorable characteristics of each origin they work with. Sensory House represents the kind of thoughtful, consumer-focused approach to roasting that the CRS community encourages.
A City That Earned Its Reputation
Montreal's coffee roasting scene is not an accident. It is the product of genuinely passionate people making extraordinary coffees in a community that supports and challenges each other to be better. The Canadian Roasting Society model has been transformative — giving roasters the infrastructure they need to be serious without the capital that would otherwise exclude them.
And the results speak for themselves. Four operations in the top 100 in North America. Dozens of micro and nano roasters producing coffees that rival anything being made in the world's great coffee cities. A community that shares knowledge, supports each other's growth, and collectively elevates the entire scene.
At EZPZ Coffee, we are proud to be part of this community. Every bag we produce at Canadian Roasting Society carries the quality standards and community values that define Montreal's roasting scene. When you put your brand on an EZPZ bag, you are not just getting specialty coffee. You are getting coffee made in one of North America's great roasting cities, by people who genuinely love what they do.
