A matte-black MERIDIAN espresso machine photographed close, portafilter locked into the group head.

Precision espresso equipment

Nine bars. Held like a note.

Home and professional machines tuned to the tenth of a gram and the tenth of a degree — so every shot lands the same way the last one did.

Explore the machines How it’s made

Choose your method

One machine, three rituals.

The same nine bars behind the group head will pull a ristretto, feather a pour-over, or steep overnight. Pick a method — the recipe rolls into place.

ESPRESSO PROG 01
Dose
18 g
Grind
fine
Water
40 g
Temp
93.5 °C
Time
27 s
Yield
36 g
  1. Purge the group, seat an 18 g basket, tamp flat.
  2. Pull at nine bars; first drops fall near nine seconds.
  3. Stop at 36 g in the cup, about 27 seconds out.
A double espresso pulling into a glass, tiger-striped crema forming. A gooseneck kettle pouring a slow spiral over a paper-filtered pour-over cone. A tall glass carafe of cold brew steeping, coarse grounds suspended in cold water.

How it’s made

Bean to cup, in six moves.

Nothing here is left to feel. Each step is measured, logged, and repeatable — which is the only way the last step tastes like it should.

Green and roasted coffee beans sorted on a steel tray. Beans tumbling in the glass door of a drum roaster, mid-roast. Ground coffee falling from stepless conical burrs. A leveled dose of coffee in a portafilter on a scale reading 18.0 grams. Espresso extracting from a bottomless portafilter in a steady stream. A finished espresso poured into a warm ceramic cup.

Step 01 — Bean · single-origin lots, graded and hand-sorted.

Three machines

Pick the one you’ll grow into.

Every machine holds nine bars. What changes is how much coffee you can ask of it before it needs a breath — from one kitchen counter to a full service bar.

MK-01 Home, a compact single-boiler MERIDIAN espresso machine.

MK-01

Home

A single-boiler machine for the barista who measures the water and weighs the beans. Small footprint, serious about temperature.

Boiler
single · 1.6 L
Pressure
9 bar
PID
±0.5 °C
Footprint
24 cm

$1,450

Reserve
MOST BUILT
MK-02 Pro, a dual-boiler MERIDIAN espresso machine with a saturated group.

MK-02

Pro

Dual boiler and a saturated group — steam and extraction hold their own line, so back-to-back shots taste like the first.

Boiler
dual · 3.4 L
Pressure
9 bar
PID
±0.1 °C
Footprint
34 cm

$3,900

Reserve
MK-03 Commercial, a three-group plumbed MERIDIAN espresso machine for a service bar.

MK-03

Commercial

Three groups, plumbed and volumetric, built to run a rush without flinching. For the bar that never really closes.

Groups
three
Boiler
14 L
Pressure
9 bar
Flow
volumetric

$11,200

Reserve

Keep it running

A machine is a relationship.

Included

Essential

Lifetime firmware and the full maintenance guides. Every machine ships with it.

$12/mo

Extended

Wear parts and gaskets covered, with priority turnaround at the bench.

$49/mo

Resident

An on-site technician on call — for commercial bars that can’t go dark.

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