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From Brescia, Italy

Italian espresso, made for the home

Lelit is short for L'Elettrodomestico Italiano, the Italian household appliance. The company was founded in the mid-1980s in the province of Brescia in northern Italy by Maria Bellini and her husband, Edoardo Epis. The first products were steam irons.

Espresso came with the next generation. The couple's sons wanted to build machines for the home with the same parts and precision you'd find in a café: a heavy group, a steady temperature and enough steam for proper milk.

The machines are still developed and built near Brescia, and the brand's motto says what it's about: made for performance.

A Lelit espresso machine and grinder on a kitchen island

What makes a Lelit a Lelit

Lelit builds machines for people who want to understand their coffee and get better at making it. These are the things you'll find across the range.

Temperature you can set

Most Lelit machines use PID control to keep the brew water at a steady temperature. On many models you set it yourself, so you can match it to the coffee.

A café-size group

Most of the range uses a 58 mm group, the same size as in professional machines. That means standard baskets, tampers and bottomless portafilters fit.

The flow in your hands

On selected models you control the water flow during extraction, with a paddle on the group or Lelit's electronic Pagaia. Start gently, open up and ease off at the end.

Ready when you are

The machines are built to heat up quickly, so a morning coffee doesn't have to be planned the night before.

Quiet in the morning

Several models have what Lelit calls a silent system, which dampens the sound of the pump. You notice it early in the morning, when the rest of the house is asleep.

Made to be upgraded

Lelit makes its own upgrade kits, from wooden handles and knobs to pressure gauges and bottomless portafilters. The machine can change with you instead of being replaced.

See all Lelit espresso machines

Designed in Italy

Details you can feel

Lelit's manifesto says that elegance lies in essentiality. In practice that means solid materials, controls that sit well in the hand and nothing that's only there for show.

Lelit espresso machine and grinder against a marble wall
Beautiful even when it's switched off
Lelit tamper with a wooden handle
A tamper that matches the machine
Wooden knobs on a stainless steel Lelit MaraX3
Wooden details
Tamping coffee in a Lelit portafilter
58 mm, like in a café

The grinder matters as much as the machine

Espresso needs a fine, even grind, and you'll want to adjust it in small steps whenever you change beans. A good grinder does more for the taste than most people expect.

Lelit's own grinders are made to go with the machines. They grind right when you need the coffee, so it's fresh when it goes into the portafilter.

Round off the setup with a tamper, a milk jug and the right cleaning products, and the machine will stay in good shape for years. Have a look at our coffee grinders and coffee accessories.

Lelit espresso machine and grinder on a kitchen counter