Café Pista

Café Pista was born in 2014 out of a love for people, coffee, and cycling. Founder Maxime, then 20 years old, was captivated by a London bike-café powered entirely by human energy — where the coffee was ground by pedaling — and created what became the world's first human-powered mobile bike-café. In 2016 the team opened its first permanent café on rue Beaubien in Montreal, and in 2018 launched a line of roasted coffee bags so people could enjoy Pista at home. A second café followed on boulevard Saint-Laurent in 2019, and in 2020 a third location opened alongside a dedicated roasting space. Today, Café Pista works directly with farms and a few carefully chosen importers, returning to the same origins year after year to build lasting, stable relationships with producers. The team is committed to price transparency and traceability — paying producers well above commodity prices, roasting on a low-emission Loring roaster, and delivering by electric or carbon-neutral vehicles.