Nicolás y Valero UK Ltd
A trading house for
every kitchen's larder —
with Spain in our blood.
We supply the UK's hospitality and retail trade with meat, fish, cheese, charcuterie and gourmet goods sourced across Spain, the Mediterranean and beyond. We're not a Spanish importer with a sideline — we're a full-service sourcing partner, built in Murcia in 1987, that happens to read the Spanish larder better than almost anyone else.
01 — Who we are
Distribution, run the way
a family runs a trade.
"We don't think of ourselves as a supplier. We think of ourselves as the person our clients call first — before the order, and long after it."
Nicolás y Valero began in 1987 as a small meat and food trading house in Murcia, in south-eastern Spain. That heritage still shapes how we work — but it isn't what we are. Today we source across meat, fish, cheese, charcuterie and the wider pantry for kitchens that cook far more than Spanish menus, choosing each supplier on quality and relationship first, and origin second.
Nicolás y Valero UK Ltd is the London-based arm of that same family business — the same standards and sourcing discipline built in Spain, now serving the UK trade directly. Spain is where our network runs deepest, and it shows; but our job is to supply the kitchen in front of us with whatever it needs, not just what we happen to import from home.
02 — What we do
A full-service larder,
not a Spanish aisle.
We work as a single point of contact across several categories of food for hospitality, retail and catering, sourced directly from producers we've traded with for years — chosen by quality and relationship, not by flag. Spain is where our sourcing network runs deepest, and it shows in how well we can read that larder, but our job is to supply the kitchen in front of us, whatever it cooks. We don't publish a catalogue here — our range moves with the season and with each client's menu — but this is the ground we cover.
Meat & game
Fresh and frozen beef, lamb and game from carefully chosen breeds and origins — including the Spanish specialists few UK suppliers can match.
Ibérico & charcuterie
Ham, shoulder and cured sausage from acorn-fed Ibérico pig — one corner of the larder we happen to know better than almost anyone.
Fish & shellfish
Fresh, frozen and salted fish and shellfish from Atlantic, Mediterranean and further afield, handled under strict cold-chain control.
Cheese & dairy
Sheep, goat, cow and blended-milk cheeses from small producers across Spain and Europe, alongside cream and dairy staples.
Gourmet larder
Oils, vinegars, conserves, rice, pulses and the pantry essentials behind any serious kitchen — not just a Spanish one.
Bakery & desserts
Premium breads, pastry bases and dessert components for kitchens that don't want to make everything from scratch.
Ranges, origins and availability are agreed directly with your account contact and shaped around your menu, whatever cuisine it serves — get in touch and we'll talk through what fits.
03 — Our journey
Four decades, one ledger.
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1987
Founded in Murcia
Nicolás y Valero opens as a meat and food trading house in Murcia, in south-eastern Spain, built by professionals already working in the sector since 1980.
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1990s–2010s
Growth across the south-east
The business extends its reach across the Region of Murcia, Alicante, and parts of Almería and Albacete, building a same-region delivery network still run today.
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2010s–2020s
Range and certification
The catalogue widens into ibérico, cheese, fish and gourmet goods, alongside the export and veterinary certification work needed to trade product internationally.
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2016
Nicolás y Valero UK Ltd founded
A London-based company is set up to extend the same sourcing and account management directly to the UK trade — one family business, operating on both sides of the Channel.
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Today
Nationwide, full-service supply
From meat and fish to cheese, charcuterie and the gourmet larder, delivering across the whole of the UK to hospitality, retail and catering.
04 — How we work
What a client gets,
not what we sell.
One point of contact
A single account contact who knows your kitchen, not a call-centre queue — the closeness the company was named for.
Traceable, cold-chain handling
Product is stored, packed and moved under strict hygiene and temperature control, from origin to your door.
Sourced, not just stocked
Relationships with producers built over years, so provenance is a fact we can stand behind — not a line on a label.
Built for HORECA & catering
Order sizes, formats and delivery built around commercial kitchens, hospitality operations and catering businesses — not retail shelves.
05 — Inside the cold chain
Storage, not an afterthought.
"Traceable, cold-chain handling" isn't just a line on this page — it's the actual facility: temperature-controlled zones, lot-tracked stock, and a warehouse run for pharmaceutical-grade discipline applied to food.
Cold zones, by design
Separate temperature-controlled rooms, not one fridge for everything.
Organised, lot by lot
Stock is racked and tracked so any batch can be traced back in seconds, not hours.
Built for volume
Real capacity behind the promise — this is what "always in stock" actually looks like.
06 — Nicolás y Valero Experience
Where the larder
becomes the plate.
Beyond the warehouse, we take our own product out to trade shows, chef showcases and client events — plated and cooked by our own team, so buyers can taste exactly what they'd be putting on their menu, not just read about it in a spec sheet.
Live at trade events
Our stand and tasting experience at food fairs and trade shows across Spain and the UK.
Cooked by our own chefs
Our team plates the product live, so buyers taste it exactly as it would arrive on a diner's table.
The larder, plated
From the pantry essentials to the finest additions — shown the way a chef would use them, not just listed on a spec sheet.
07 — In the United Kingdom
London is our desk.
The kitchen sets the brief.
Nicolás y Valero UK Ltd has traded from London since 2016 — the UK arm of the Nicolás y Valero group, set up to give hospitality and retail buyers in Britain a direct line into the sourcing network the business has run since 1987. That network runs deepest in Spain, but our brief here is broader: supplying whatever a kitchen needs, sourced properly, wherever it comes from. We deliver nationwide across the UK, not just in and around London.
Nicolás y Valero UK Ltd24-26 Arcadia Avenue
London N3 2JU
United Kingdom
08 — Get in touch
Tell us what your kitchen needs.
Leave your details and the right person on our UK desk will come back to you directly — no catalogue download, no generic reply.
- 0203 488 4336
- orders@nicolasyvalero.co.uk
- 24-26 Arcadia Avenue, London N3 2JU