KEN GABBAY CAFÉ LTÉEKEN GABBAY COFFEE LTDEst.1968KEN GABBAYcoffee ltd / café ltée
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Coffee cherries ripening from green to red on the branch

Green coffee for roasters, imported directly from origin.

A family business since 1968. We import green coffee directly from origin and store it in warehouses across Canada and the northeast United States. Our main warehouse is in Montreal. We bought it in 2021 and have managed it ourselves since.

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We carry the coffee, manage the warehouse and the market risk. You choose the coffee you need.

A roaster in Montreal tells us what they are after. We already bought that coffee where it was grown, shipped it, cleared customs and put it in our warehouse on Chemin Bedford. They take five bags this week and five more next month. They never buy a whole shipping container, and they never sit on the price while it waits.

Start with samples
The container
Bought at origin and landed here, so you buy the bags you need instead of financing a container.
The samples
Sent on request. Roast and score them on your own bench, on your own schedule.
The price
Quoted against the market on the day you are ready to buy.
The release
Bag by bag from our warehouses, or we hold an agreed volume for you at an agreed price.

Inside our warehouse

We bought the building in 2021 and have run it ourselves since. Over a hundred coffees sit on the floor at any time, released bag by bag as you need it.

Pickups happen at 3205 Chemin Bedford, Montreal.

Inside our warehouseOur cupping room
Wrapped pallets of green coffee down an aisle of the Montreal warehouse, jute bags stacked high behind them.
Coffee stays under wrap until a roaster orders, then leaves by the bag instead of by the container.
A warehouse operator on a forklift lifting a pallet of jute coffee bags.
Bags run 50 to 70 kilos depending on origin, so every pallet moves by forklift.
The center aisle of the Montreal warehouse leading to the loading dock, pallets of jute coffee bags stacked on both sides.
The center aisle runs to the loading dock. Everything sold into Canada and the northeast United States ships off this floor.

Eighteen origins on the list today

All 18 origins

Ethiopia

11 coffees

Colombia

10 coffees

Costa Rica

8 coffees

Indonesia

7 coffees

Kenya

6 coffees

Guatemala

5 coffees

New Arrivals

All 78 coffees

The cupping room

This is where the coffee gets tasted. A small sample is roasted, ground and steeped in hot water, then tasted off a spoon so the coffees can be compared against each other.

Inside the cupping room
A wide view down the cupping room, a marble counter along the left, a seating area on the right, and the black cupping table in the middle distance.
The room end to end, the cupping table down the middle.
A row of white cupping bowls filled with brewed coffee along a black stone table, with two mugs printed with the Ken Gabbay Coffee seal in the foreground and spoons resting in them.
Bowls poured and lined up down the table.
A blue Probat sample roaster on the bench, a duct running from it into a metal bin on the floor, a grinder alongside.
The sample roaster is a Probat.

We go, and we take roasters with us

Supplier visits and customer trips through farms, wet mills, dry mills and exporters. The most recent: Colombia, 2026.

The whole archive

Tell us what you are roasting and what you are chasing in the cup.

514-397-0011
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Montreal

Head office: 3201 Chemin Bedford
Warehouse and pickup: 3205 Chemin Bedford
Montreal, Quebec H3S 1G3

Who we sell to

Roasters across Canada and the northeast United States. Green, unroasted coffee, by the bag or by the container.

From the trade

The coffee press, this week

Headlines link to the original publication. Ken Gabbay Coffee is not the publisher.

Associations and certifying bodies

The organizations Ken Gabbay Coffee belongs to and works with, and the exchange where the coffee futures trade.