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Curators Of Rare Italian Food

Cheese, salumi and store cupboard essentials personally sourced from small-batch producers across Italy

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Small, Dedicated Suppliers

We have spent years tracking down producers who put taste, tradition and welfare above all other considerations

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Artisan salumi hung for ageing and flavour

Salumi

We champion the rich, regional heritage of air curing and fermentation in our delicious range of salumi

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Wheels of artisan cheese carefully laid out to mature

Cheese

We began in 2005 with the Parmesan stall at Borough Market. Since then we've gradually added Italy's iconic, raw milk cheeses to our selection

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Store

Visit our Bermondsey shop every Saturday. You'll find us nestled amongst some of the most exciting food businesses in London

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We are an independent, Bermondsey-based business sourcing beautiful, seasonal produce from suppliers across Italy. We deliver to a wide selection of amazing restaurants and can now offer many of our items to online food-lovers anywhere in the UK

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What Chef's Say

Highly respected chef Angela Hartnett in her chef's whites

"What I love about Elliott and Alison is their ability to source the most incredible salumi straight from the producer. The best I have tasted (plus my mother agrees!)"

Angela Hartnett - Murano

Top UK chef Theo Randall looking relaxed

"In my opinion The Ham & Cheese Company sells the best salumi and Parmesan cheese in the UK"

Theo Randall - The Intercontinental
Chef Shaun Searley, head chef of the Quality Chop Houses looking happy

"Working with incredible ingredients is so important but a solid relationship with your supplier is imperative. The Ham & Cheese Co deliver on both"

Shaun Searley - Quality Chop House
Chef Joe Trivelli in the busy River Cafe kitchen where he works

"These exceptional products are the ones I choose to take home from the restaurant to feed my family. Food chock-full of Italian benevolence"

Joe Trivelli- The River Café

Our Bermondsey Shop

Open 8:30am-2pm

Every Saturday

Arch 10, Dockley Road Industrial Estate, Dockley Rd, London SE16 3SF.

It's eight years since we arrived in Dockley Road and there are now over 30 of us at Spa Terminus. During the week, our shutters down, people are making cheese, roasting coffee, brewing beer and baking bread but on a Friday and Saturday we open our doors from 8.30am-2pm. See the Spa Terminus website for a map of all traders.

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Read posts from our gastronomic journey through Italy and south west France

  • New Season Olive Oil Is Here

    New Season Olive Oil Is Here

    From his beautiful, 17th century farmhouse Giacomo Santoleri farms lentils and grains and a small production of oil from his 600 olive trees. The trees are a mix of Leccino, Gentile di Chieti and Intosso varieties and they grow on the rocky, limestone Caprafico Plain, at the foot of the Maiella massif in Abruzzo.
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  • Autumn Has Arrived, Along With Our Passata

    Autumn Has Arrived, Along With Our Passata

    On Monday our new season passata finally arrived from Sabina and Michele at San Cesareo in Fano. Their lovely old farmhouse, hidden among the trees in the photo, has a kitchen where the tomatoes are taken within an hour of picking. There, they are washed, plunged into boiling water, drained and then put through a mill to separate the skins. The passata is bottled either with or without whole Datterini tomatoes.
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  • A True Story Of The Fake Black Olive

    A True Story Of The Fake Black Olive

    This is the true story of the fake black olive: the olive that looks out at us from the top of your pizza; from the supermarket shelf, the olive with the texture of a rubber tyre and which sometimes, will taste of soap. Or perhaps we should say: the former olive. Because these olives are finally, at the end of their entirely disenchanting treatment process, effectively dead.
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