Restaurant food suppliers for London kitchens, straight from New Covent Garden
Ortaggi is a small, family-run restaurant food supplier at New Covent Garden Market. For fine dining, tasting menus and chef-owned restaurants across London, we hand-pick the fresh produce overnight, look for the particular varieties a menu is written around, and deliver it with the dairy, dry goods and provisions before service.
A restaurant produce supplier for kitchens where the produce is the dish
Some menus are built round a handful of ingredients, and each has to be the variety the dish was written for, at the same standard in March as in October. A tasting menu works that way, and so does a chef-owned room that changes its menu with the season. Ortaggi chooses the fresh produce for those kitchens on the market floor at New Covent Garden, by eye and in person.
Giuseppe and Franco walk the stands from about half past midnight, and when a line is not right that night, you will hear it from us before the van is loaded, while there is still time to change the dish. Tell us the variety you want, a particular tomato, a citrus or a mushroom in its season, and we will look for it on the stands.
We supply fresh produce, dairy, chilled goods, dry provisions, frozen lines and speciality ingredients from a single account, so the whole kitchen arrives on one van with one invoice, before service, on the mornings your round runs, whether the dining room is in Mayfair or St James's, the City or Chelsea.
Giuseppe SantamariaCo-founder, purchasing 
Jaime SuarezCo-founder, operations
How restaurants use us
Fine dining and tasting menus
A tasting menu needs particular varieties, chosen at their best and consistent from one week to the next. When something remarkable comes through the market we will let you know, and whatever a dish is written around, tell us and we will look for it.
Chef-owned restaurants and trattorias
A menu that follows the season needs a supplier who follows it too. We supply chef-owned Italian, Mediterranean, modern European and British restaurants across London, and we call before the van is loaded if a line will fall short.
Pubs, brasseries and all-day dining
Higher volumes, tighter margins and less room for waste. We help you manage costs by flagging price movements early and suggesting alternatives when a line rises sharply.
What restaurant kitchens get from us
Delivery in the morning, before service, with your produce, dairy and dry goods on the counter when your team arrives to begin the prep.
Buyers who are at the market through the night.
Giuseppe, our purchasing director, walks the stands with Franco and chooses your stock with forty years in the trade behind him.
Plain communication.
If something is short, substituted or priced differently, we will tell you before it arrives, so nothing waits to be discovered in the box.
Flexibility when you need it.
When a special or a private dining booking doubles your usual order, call by midnight and we will arrange it.
How to choose a restaurant food supplier in London
Ask where the produce was last night.
Ours is on the stands at New Covent Garden Market until Giuseppe and Franco hand-pick it, from about half past midnight, and it is loaded for your round.
Ask how late you can change the order.
Covers move after the last sitting, so we take orders up to midnight by telephone, WhatsApp or email, and our team works the market overnight, Sunday night through Friday night.
Ask when it arrives and how often.
Routes leave the market every morning, Monday to Saturday, and arrive before service. Established accounts that order by midnight receive it the following morning on the days their area's round runs: most mornings in some postcodes, a few a week in others, and we will tell you which before you start.
Ask how much of the kitchen one account covers.
Fruit and veg, herbs and leaves, mushrooms, dairy, dry goods and frozen come on one van with one invoice, and if a line is not on our list, we will gladly source it.
Ask who puts it right when something goes wrong.
With a small, hands-on supplier, it is the team that bought and packed your order.
Switching to Ortaggi
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Send us your current order lists, with what you buy and in what quantities, and we will put together a quote within 48 hours.
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Your first deliveries are the time to judge the quality, the timing and how we keep you informed.
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Once you are happy, we set up a regular order pattern that fits your kitchen's week.
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There is no minimum contract and no tie-in: we would like the produce and the service to be the reason you stay.
Chosen on the morning they reach your kitchen.
Why restaurants stay
We have supplied London kitchens since 2007, on a simple principle: we do what we say we will do, and when we cannot, we pick up the phone.
We would like to be the supplier you need not think about, because the delivery is there and the quality is right.
Restaurant supply questions
For anything else, do call 0333 091 5281.
Do you supply wholesale fruit and veg to London restaurants?
Yes. Ortaggi is a family-run wholesaler at New Covent Garden Market supplying London restaurants with fruit and veg, herbs and leaves, dairy, dry goods and frozen, all on one account and one van. Giuseppe and Franco hand-pick the fresh lines overnight, and the order arrives before service on the mornings your round runs, Monday to Saturday.Do you supply fine-dining and tasting-menu kitchens?
Yes. Ortaggi supplies fine-dining restaurants and tasting-menu kitchens across London, buying the fresh produce by eye at New Covent Garden Market from about half past midnight. Tell us the varieties a menu is built round and we will look for them on the stands; if a line is not right that night, you will hear it from us before the van is loaded, and the order arrives with your dairy and dry goods before service.Can you deliver to a restaurant before service?
Yes. On the mornings your round runs, an established account that orders by midnight, by telephone, WhatsApp or email, has its produce chosen at New Covent Garden Market from half past midnight and driven to the kitchen before the first cover, so the team begins the prep with everything already in.
Further reading
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