Chefs' space
Find your suppliers before you write your menu
Caterer, food truck, festival kitchen or volunteer crew: a menu is built from what is available, not the other way round. Here is who can deliver festival volumes locally, and what will be in season on the day.
- suppliers you can call
- 323suppliers you can call
- regions covered
- 3regions covered
- product categories
- 9product categories
Shortcuts
Straight to what you actually buy
Each link opens the directory already filtered on one category. Add your region next to keep only suppliers within delivery range.
Vegetables
Market gardeners and wholesalers able to release volume over a few days.
Fruit
Fruit growers and distributors, for desserts, juices and fresh breaks.
Meat and fish
Livestock farmers, butchers and fish farmers, with direct contact to agree on cuts.
Bread and cereals
Millers, bakers and cereal growers, for bread, buns and flour.
Seasonality
Out of season, you pay twice
A tomato grown in a heated greenhouse in winter emits several times more greenhouse gases than the same tomato grown in open ground in August. The growing calendar is the first lever for a lighter menu — before organic and before local.
- Build the menu from the calendar of the event month, not from a fixed idea of a dish.
- Keep two or three fallback recipes: bad weather shifts a harvest by two weeks.
- Share your volumes as soon as capacity is known: that is what makes an order workable for a grower.
- A well-built plant-based dish holds up under mass service and cuts the menu's footprint sharply.
Resources
Two documents that earn their place in the kitchen
They are written for organising teams, but half the content is kitchen work: sourcing, menus, portions, waste, allergen labelling.
- Practical guide — Healthy and sustainable food
- Sustainable food charter (A2 poster)
Let festivals know you exist
Organisers regularly ask us for kitchens that can run a sustainable service. Tell us what you cook, for how many covers, and which region you travel to.
Introduce yourselfTASTE project — co-funded by the European Union