Greater London Trade only
Fruit and veg wholesale for London kitchens
Ortaggi is a family-run fruit and veg wholesale supplier for kitchens across London. Since 2007 we have hand-picked the produce at New Covent Garden Market, by eye and through the night, and delivered it before your first cover.
Sunday to Friday nights 9 pm to 5 am
How London delivery works
- Until midnight
Your order
By telephone, WhatsApp or email.
Jaime packs dry goods and dairy
Checked and set aside to await the fresh lines.
Giuseppe and Franco choose your fresh lines
At New Covent Garden Market.
The vans set out
- Before service
At your kitchen door
On the mornings your area's round runs.
The best of the market shows up early. So do we.
What fruit and veg wholesale from New Covent Garden means for your kitchen
Named buyers
Fruit and veg wholesale from Ortaggi means named buyers choose your order by hand at New Covent Garden Market, the same morning it reaches you. From around half past midnight Giuseppe and Franco walk the Buyers Walk stand by stand, looking for what is at its best, so what arrives in your kitchen was on the market floor only hours before.
The whole kitchen
One order can carry the chefs' staples alongside heritage tomatoes, aubergines and peppers, herbs and leaves, mushrooms, figs and artichokes, and citrus and stone fruit as each comes into season. Dairy, dry goods and a frozen range travel in the same van, so a single account serves the whole kitchen. Should a line be missing from the list, ask, and we will gladly source it.
Trade only
Ortaggi is trade only, supplying kitchens that buy for service. With an established account, an order placed by midnight, by telephone, WhatsApp or email, is with you before the first cover on the days your area is served. You deal with the people who buy and pack it.
Monday to Saturday mornings
Fruit and veg suppliers for London kitchens, round by round
We deliver wholesale fruit, veg, dairy and provisions across London, Monday to Saturday, each area on the mornings its round runs. The vans leave New Covent Garden Market in the early hours and reach the kitchen before service begins, whether it sits in Soho or Shoreditch, Marylebone or Borough.
Giuseppe and Franco are on the market floor by half past midnight, walking the stands and picking by hand. By three in the morning the vans are loaded, so the produce that reaches your counter left its stand that same night.
We supply restaurants, hotels, pubs, cafés, delis and contract caterers across central and Greater London. If you run a kitchen in the capital and want its produce chosen with care, we would be glad to hear from you.
The London rounds
By quarter, with postcode districts
The City & its fringe
- City of London
- EC1–EC4
- Borough
- SE1
- Clerkenwell
- EC1
- Farringdon
- EC1, WC1
- Shoreditch
- EC2A, E1
- Spitalfields
- E1
See also Wholesale Fruit & Veg City of London
South-west
- Nine Elms (New Covent Garden Market)
- SW8
- Battersea
- SW11
- Chelsea
- SW3, SW10
- Clapham
- SW4
- Fulham
- SW6
- Putney
- SW15
- Tooting
- SW17
South-east
- Beckenham
- BR3
- Bermondsey
- SE1, SE16
- Blackheath
- SE3
- Bromley
- BR1, BR2
- Dulwich
- SE21, SE22
- Greenwich
- SE10
Central & west
- Holborn
- WC1, WC2
- Kensington
- W8
- Pimlico & Belgravia
- SW1
- Soho
- W1
Central & inner London
- EC
- WC
- E
- N
- NW
- SE
- SW
- W
Greater London
- BR
- CR
- DA
- EN
- HA
- IG
- KT
- RM
- SM
- TW
- UB
- WD
New Covent Garden Market, SW8 5PP
Questions from London kitchens
For anything else, do call 0333 091 5281.
Which parts of London do you cover most heavily?
All of Greater London, though more in some parts than others. We deliver most in the City of London, EC1 to EC4, and on its fringe at Spitalfields, Farringdon, Clerkenwell and Borough. South-west London is on our doorstep, the market being in SW8: Battersea, Clapham, Fulham, Chelsea, Putney and Tooting. To the south-east, we cover Greenwich and Blackheath, Dulwich, Beckenham and Bromley.Do you sell wholesale fruit and veg to the public?
No. Ortaggi is trade only, and every account belongs to a kitchen that buys for service. If you cook for paying covers, whether in a dining room, a hotel kitchen or for a function, we would be pleased to supply you. For a box of vegetables for the house, we are the wrong supplier, and we would rather say so than take the order.
Where is London's wholesale fruit and veg market, and how does a restaurant buy from it?
New Covent Garden Market, at Nine Elms in SW8, is the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market in the UK. Ortaggi works from 36–37 The Arches on the market; Giuseppe and Franco walk the stands from about half past midnight on the Sunday-to-Friday night shifts, choose the fresh produce by hand, and it is delivered before morning service. A restaurant with an account buys through us: the order goes in by midnight, and the van brings the fruit and veg with the dairy and dry goods.
What London kitchens order from us
Fresh fruit and vegetables
Heritage tomatoes, seasonal leaves, Mediterranean lines and the everyday staples, chosen overnight at New Covent Garden Market for their flavour.
Dairy and chilled
Milk, cream, butter, burrata, mozzarella, ricotta, feta and yoghurt, with plant-based alternatives as well. Held cold, without a break, until it reaches your kitchen.
Dry goods and provisions
Olive oil and vinegars, tinned tomatoes, pasta, rice and pulses, olives and capers: the dry store that sees your kitchen through between fresh deliveries.
How we look after London kitchens
Still run by its two founders, as it has been since 2007.
Giuseppe SantamariaCo-founder, purchasing 
Jaime SuarezCo-founder, operations
- Who you deal with
- Franco is your first point of contact and looks after your account from then on. Giuseppe does the buying and knows the growers by name, and Jaime runs the warehouse, checking every order before it leaves.
- Delivery window
- Each round is kept compact, so your delivery window holds. The drivers know the loading bays, service entrances and traffic of their routes, and should anything change on the night, whether a substitution or a shortage, you will hear it from us before the van arrives.
- Weekly quotes
- Prices are quoted weekly, and when the market moves, we explain why before it reaches the invoice.
Further reading
Related pages
Wholesale Vegetables & Fresh Produce
Wholesale vegetables and fresh produce for trade kitchens, chosen by eye at New Covent Garden Market, then delivered across London before service.
Wholesale Fruit & Veg City of London
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Enquiries trade only
Talk to us
Tell us about your kitchen and what you buy, and we will arrange your first delivery with you.
The Market Note free, every Monday
Know what is at its best before you order
A letter from New Covent Garden Market: what is worth buying this week and what is about to turn, written by Franco from the market floor. Unsubscribe whenever you wish.