MOK Coffee

MOK Coffee was founded in 2012 by Jens Crabbé in Leuven, the Flemish university city about 30 kilometers east of Brussels. Operating as both a roastery and a multi-site café group, MOK has grown into one of the more established specialty outfits in Belgium, running its own production roastery alongside retail bars and a wholesale program supplying independent cafés and restaurants internationally.

Crabbé opened the original Leuven café on Diestsestraat that same year, setting an early benchmark for specialty coffee in his hometown. The Brussels chapter arrived at the end of 2016, when MOK converted a former art gallery on Antoine Dansaertstraat — in the city's Dansaert design quarter — into its flagship store. A third location, MOK Studio, has since opened inside the lobby of independent record label PIAS, operating as a combined listening and coffee bar.

The roastery runs a Probat UG22 logged on Cropster. MOK's sourcing model centers on long-term producer relationships — returning to the same farms year over year — with full traceability and strict seasonal buying. Current offerings span washed and natural single origins from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Brazil, presented as both filter and espresso profiles. A collaboration with Spanish specialty filter brand Sibarist produced a line of immersion coffee bags. Filter and espresso subscriptions ship nationally from €18.50.