Wholesale dairy supplier for London kitchens: cheese, yoghurt, milk and cream
Ortaggi is a wholesale dairy supplier for kitchens across London and the South East, carrying milk, cream and butter, Greek and natural yoghurt, and Italian cheeses from burrata and mozzarella to Parmigiano-Reggiano, kept chilled on the same delivery as your fresh produce from New Covent Garden Market.
An unbroken cold chain
Dairy is unforgiving: a broken cold chain affects flavour and food safety alike.
Our chilled storage and our vans hold their temperature from our arches to your kitchen, with no warm gap in between.
We check date codes before dispatch and rotate stock properly.
Should something arrive that is not right, such as a damaged seal or a date too close, tell us, and the people who packed it will deal with it.
Burrata and soft Italian cheeses need careful handling, so we pack them separately, keep them upright and deliver them in the condition you would expect had you collected them yourself, which is how Giuseppe buys them.
Dairy supply that fits your kitchen
Many kitchens keep a separate dairy supplier, though one delivery can carry both. Our warehouse runs dedicated chilled storage, and our vans are temperature-controlled from door to door.
Your fresh produce and your dairy then come on a single delivery and a single invoice, from people you know, with less to manage and fewer vans at your loading bay in the morning.
We supply dairy to restaurants, hotels, pubs, cafés, delis and contract caterers across London, Kent and the South East, and whether a kitchen gets through two litres of cream a week or two hundred, it is kept cold with equal care.
Giuseppe SantamariaCo-founder, purchasing 
Jaime SuarezCo-founder, operations
Our dairy and chilled range
Milk, cream and butter
Whole, semi-skimmed, skimmed and Jersey milk; single, double and clotted cream; salted and unsalted butter in catering packs; and oat, soy and almond alternatives. As a cream supplier, we put the cream for the pastry section and the sauces on the same chilled delivery as the milk.
Italian and speciality cheeses
Burrata, buffalo mozzarella, fior di latte, ricotta, mascarpone, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Grana Padano and pecorino, chosen by Giuseppe from the importers he deals with.
Free-range eggs, yoghurt and crème fraîche
Greek and natural yoghurt, crème fraîche and free-range eggs in trays. Where we can, we will match the brands and pack sizes your kitchen already uses.
Dairy for hotel kitchens, from breakfast to banqueting
A hotel kitchen draws on its dairy all day. Breakfast takes the milk, butter, Greek and natural yoghurt and the free-range eggs; the pastry section works through double cream, unsalted butter and mascarpone; and a banquet can call for cream and butter in quantity for a single function.
All of it can come on one order with the produce, kept chilled from our arches to your door, so breakfast and banqueting are not waiting on a separate dairy van. Send the function sheet with your order by midnight, and the cream and butter for it travel on the next delivery with everything else.
Room service and the bar draw on the same list, from milk and cream for the coffee to butter and yoghurt for the trays. If the hotel already buys particular brands or pack sizes, send them over: we match what we can and source the rest.
How to consolidate your dairy with us
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Send us your current dairy order list: products, brands, pack sizes and weekly volumes.
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We match what we can from our existing range and source anything we do not already carry.
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Your dairy then arrives with your fresh produce, on one van and one invoice.
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We review after the first fortnight and adjust brands or pack sizes if anything needs changing.
Chosen on the morning they reach your kitchen.
What chefs ask us about dairy
For anything else, do call 0333 091 5281.
Do you deliver dairy at the weekend?
On Saturday, yes, and on Sunday, no. Deliveries run Monday to Saturday, so anything you need for a Sunday service must come on Saturday's delivery, which is worth planning the weekend's cream and butter around. The cutoff is midnight the night before, by telephone, WhatsApp or email.
Do you supply wholesale cream and free-range eggs?
Ortaggi supplies wholesale cream and free-range eggs to kitchens across London and the South East: single, double and clotted cream, and free-range eggs in trays, alongside the milk, butter, yoghurt and crème fraîche. They are kept chilled from our arches at New Covent Garden Market to your kitchen and come on the same order as your fresh produce. Send the brands and pack sizes you use now, and we will match what we can.Who do I speak to if a chilled dairy delivery isn't right?
Jaime Suarez, co-founder and operations director, runs the warehouse, logistics and quality, so a chilled delivery that is not right sits squarely with him, and Giuseppe Santamaria, the other co-founder, handles the buying and the importers behind the cheese. It is a family business, so a problem reaches the people who can put it right.What happens if a cheese we rely on is out of stock?
You will hear before the van is loaded. If an importer is short on a line, or a price has moved since your last order, we would rather tell you while you can still change the prep list or move the special. On burrata and mozzarella, that is the difference between a changed garnish and a missing dish.
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