Trade only
Fruit and veg wholesale across the South East
Ortaggi is a family-run fruit and veg wholesale supplier with one market base and four counties on its rounds: Surrey, Kent, Sussex and, further out, Essex. The vegetables and fruit are hand-picked at New Covent Garden before dawn and delivered on the early morning rounds.
Areas we cover across the South East
Surrey
Guildford, Reigate, Epsom, Dorking, Woking, Weybridge and the towns around them, on regular morning routes.
Kent
Maidstone and the Medway valley, the Weald, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks, on dedicated Kent rounds.
Sussex
Brighton, Lewes, Crawley and East Grinstead. If your postcode is not listed, do ask, and we will say whether a round reaches it.
Buying veg wholesale across the South East
Buying veg wholesale from Ortaggi means opening a trade account with a small, family-run supplier that hand-picks your order at New Covent Garden Market in SW8 from around half past midnight and takes it out across the South East before service. We supply trade kitchens only: restaurants, hotels, caterers, cafés, pubs, delis, care homes and school kitchens.
Dairy, dry goods and provisions travel on the same delivery as the vegetables, so one order and one van cover the whole kitchen. If a line is not on the list, ask, and we will source it.
Every box is chosen by hand on the market floor that night, so the produce reaches your kitchen only hours from the market. Giuseppe and Franco choose it, Jaime checks the order before it is loaded, and it goes out to Surrey, Kent, Sussex and Essex on the early morning rounds.
Wholesale vegetables for kitchens in Surrey, Kent and Sussex
Chefs' staples and seasonal vegetables
Onions, potatoes, garlic, tomatoes and cucumbers for every service, with heritage tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes and peppers as the season turns. Each box is chosen by eye on the Buyers Walk, and anything less than right stays on the stand.
Herbs and salad leaves
Basil, coriander, dill, mint, thyme and rosemary, with baby leaves, rocket and spinach. They are packed with the rest of your order and kept chilled from our arches to your kitchen door, however far out the round runs.
Mushrooms and the less common lines
Chestnut, oyster, shiitake and king oyster mushrooms, the wild varieties when the season allows, and artichokes and figs when they are at their best. Anything not listed, we will gladly source.
How we serve South East venues
Still run by its two founders, as it has been since 2007.
Giuseppe SantamariaCo-founder, purchasing 
Jaime SuarezCo-founder, operations
- The South East rounds are planned with as much care as our London runs, and the fresh lines on them are chosen at the market, with every order checked at our arches before it leaves.
- Our drivers come to know the kitchens on their rounds: the loading point, the door to use, and how each kitchen likes its delivery set down.
- We are a family business whose name travels by word of mouth, which it does only while the produce and the service hold steady, week after week.
Monday to Saturday mornings
South East wholesale delivery from the market
We deliver wholesale fruit, veg, dairy and provisions across the South East of England from Monday to Saturday, each area on the mornings its round runs. Our routes cover Surrey, Kent, Sussex and Essex, within a sensible radius of New Covent Garden Market.
The produce is chosen with equal care whether you are two miles from the market or forty. Giuseppe and Franco pick every fresh line by hand in the early hours, and Jaime checks every order before it is loaded, wherever its round is going.
If you are not sure whether your postcode is on a round, do give us a call. We built our South East coverage deliberately, and we will check your postcode against it.
The rounds
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
Kent
- ME
- TN
- DA
Surrey
- GU
- RH
- KT
- SM
- CR
Sussex
- BN
- RH
- TN
Essex
- CM
- SS
- RM
- IG
New Covent Garden Market, SW8 5PP
Questions we get from South East kitchens
For anything else, do call 0333 091 5281.
Do you deliver into Essex?
Yes. Essex is one of the four South East counties on our morning rounds, alongside Surrey, Kent and Sussex. Our arches are south of the river at New Covent Garden Market, SW8, which puts Essex on the far side of London from us, but it is still on the rounds. Send your postcode and we will tell you plainly whether we reach you.
Which days do you deliver across the South East?
Monday to Saturday, on the mornings each area's round runs. Saturday is a delivery morning like the others, so a kitchen trading through the weekend need not order double on the Friday. Sunday is the one morning we do not run, so a Sunday service is covered by the Saturday delivery, which is worth building into your weekend prep.
Which venues do you supply across the South East?
Restaurants, hotels and caterers, as in London. A country-house hotel forty miles out and a Clerkenwell dining room are supplied from one range, chosen on one market floor that night, and only the van they travel on differs.
How to start ordering
01
Get in touch with your postcode and a rough weekly order. We will confirm whether you are on an existing route or whether we can add you.
02
We agree your delivery days and the morning window your round arrives in.
03
Once your account is open, order by midnight, by telephone, WhatsApp or email, for delivery on your round's next morning.
04
We check in after the first week and adjust anything that needs it.
Further reading
Related pages
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