New Wave Seafood

Supplying the finest seafood
to chefs since 1989

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Our Food Partners

Committed to quality & sustainability

As passionate foodies, we are constantly on the lookout for the best-quality produce. Our key speciality is fresh fish and shellfish, but we also offer a range of other items from carefully chosen food partners. Many of these are small, family-run businesses – often local – dedicated to creating the finest-quality products.

FISHERMEN & FISH MARKETS

Most of our wild fish and shellfish is caught in British coastal waters, mainly in Devon, Cornwall and Scotland, especially around the Shetland Isles. We support traditional fishermen and small-scale, independent fishing businesses, which have been at the heart of communities for centuries. We buy from individual fishermen as well as from the two main fish markets in the south-west.

FISH & SHELLFISH FARMERS

All our farmed fish and shellfish comes from BAP-certified producers, ensuring quality and health and safety standards are adhered to. BAP is the only seafood-specific certification programme that can certify every step in the production chain. Here are just some of the fish and shellfish farms and products we deal with in the UK:

Loch Duart salmon

Sought after by some of the world’s best chefs, Loch Duart salmon is raised in the crystal-clear waters of Sutherland, on the north-west mainland, and the Hebrides. Raised from wild Scottish ancestors, these salmon have a healthy, natural diet (no hormones or antibiotics are ever used) and plenty of space to swim. The result is an eye-catching colour, a strong torpedo shape, firmer texture and delicious flavour.

Shetland’s Finest

The rugged coastline of Shetland, with its sheltered inlets and Grade A waters, provides the perfect environment to grow some of the UK’s finest mussels. These large mussels are free from grit, with clean shells and 25 per cent meat content. Rigorous testing prior to harvest ensures the mussels are free from shellfish toxins. The company also sources wild-caught scallops.

Maldon Oysters

Essex oysters (sometimes known as ‘Essex Gold’) have been regarded as some of the best in the world since Roman times. In 1962, the Maldon Oyster Company was established in the Blackwater Estuary, famed for its salt marshes, which give these oysters their distinct flavour and meatiness. Today, most oysters raised in the beds are rock oysters, nurtured for years until they reach their prime.

ChalkStream® Trout

Produced on farms in the Test and Itchen rivers in Hampshire, ChalkStream® trout are among the best freshwater trout in the UK. Raised in conditions similar to wild trout, they are slow-grown for two and a half years, live in fast-flowing, pure chalk stream water, and have a relatively high-protein, low-oil diet. The result is a lean fish with a unique, clean taste.

Bibury Trout Farm

Britain’s oldest working trout farm and only a few miles away from New Wave in Gloucestershire, Bibury Trout Farm is a leading producer of freshwater trout, both brown trout and rainbow trout. The farm also supplies us with smoked trout, smoked at Severn & Wye Smokery.

Royal Greenland

With a history dating back to 1774, and appointed ‘Purveyor to the Royal Danish Court’, Royal Greenland is the premium supplier of North Atlantic, ready-cooked cold-water prawns. The seafood is cooked to perfection straight after being caught and then instantly frozen, a process that ensures the prawns retain their sweet flavour, firm yet juicy texture and decorative pink colour.

SMOKED FISH PRODUCERS

We supply a range of smoked fish products from suppliers that continue to use traditional methods and do not use dyes or additives.

Severn & Wye Smokery

Based in Gloucestershire, the Severn & Wye Smokery is one of the most highly acclaimed smokeries in the UK, holding a royal warrant and supplying the world’s leading chefs and food halls, as well as New Wave. The company smokes only the best-quality fish in the traditional way.

Chapel & Swan Smokehouse

The artisan smokehouse, Chapel & Swan, has been smoking fish in traditional brick kilns in Suffolk since 2004. They supply us with their hot smoked and cold smoked salmon, including their sustainable smoked salmon.

GROWERS OF SEASONAL PRODUCE

A select range of UK growers supply us with fresh seasonal produce. We are particularly fortunate in being located close to the Vale of Evesham, renowned for being a centre of market gardening.