Building an authentic Italian restaurant menu in Brisbane has always required juggling multiple suppliers. Your meat rep. Your charcuterie contact. Your cheese account. Your pantry lines. Your pasta. For most kitchens, this means four or five separate orders, four or five delivery windows, four or five invoices every week.

There is now a simpler way. MOCO Food Services — Brisbane’s leading Italian wholesale food distributor — carries over 5,000 foodservice products from a single Wacol facility, covering everything from antipasti to dolci. And as MOCO’s exclusive fresh pasta partner, VEDE Pasta’s handmade Puglian shapes are part of that order.

One supplier. One delivery. Your whole Italian menu.

What MOCO Food Services Covers

MOCO has spent years building a product range specifically designed for kitchens running Italian and Mediterranean menus. This is not a generalist distributor that happens to stock a few Italian lines — MOCO’s focus is the ingredients that Italian restaurants, trattorias, pizza venues, and Mediterranean-leaning kitchens actually need.

Charcuterie and cured meats. Prosciutto, guanciale, pancetta, nduja, soppressata — the full Italian salumi range. The kind of products that go on a serious antipasti board or get rendered in a pan for a pasta sauce. MOCO sources these properly rather than stocking the supermarket-adjacent versions that turn up in generalist distributor catalogues.

Cheese. Parmigiano Reggiano, Pecorino Romano, fresh buffalo mozzarella, burrata, ricotta, scamorza. The dairy anchors of Italian cooking. MOCO carries the real thing, not domestic imitations.

Pantry and condiments. San Marzano tomatoes, quality olive oil, anchovy fillets, capers, bottarga, dried porcini, Calabrian chilli paste. The pantry lines that separate a kitchen cooking Italian food from one pretending to. MOCO stocks the products that chefs who have worked in Italy recognise.

Dry pasta and grains. Artisan dried pasta, risotto rice, polenta, semolina flour. The bulk dry goods that keep a kitchen running between fresh deliveries.

Proteins and smallgoods. Quality meat lines, seafood, and smallgoods suited to Italian preparation — the base proteins that go into ragù, braises, and secondi.

Fresh pasta by VEDE. As MOCO’s exclusive fresh pasta partner, VEDE’s full range of handmade IQF pasta shapes are available through a MOCO order. Orecchiette, cavatelli, strozzaprete, strascinate, pappardelle, fettuccine, rigatoni, and our sourdough range — all made in Brisbane, all IQF frozen for service consistency.

Why MOCO Chose VEDE as Its Exclusive Pasta Partner

When MOCO was looking for a fresh pasta partner, the criteria were straightforward: the product had to be genuinely different to what a kitchen could source through any other channel, it had to be made in Brisbane, and it had to be produced at a quality level that reflected MOCO’s reputation with its customers.

VEDE satisfied all three. We are the only Australian producer making fresh pasta using the traditional Puglian hand-stretched method at wholesale scale. Our orecchiette, cavatelli and strozzaprete are shapes that no other Brisbane supplier carries fresh. And our IQF production process means the product arrives at a kitchen in the same condition it left our facility.

For MOCO’s customers — Italian restaurants, Mediterranean venues, hotel kitchens, club restaurants — adding VEDE to their MOCO order means access to pasta shapes their competitors cannot source through any other wholesale channel in Queensland.

The Complete Italian Menu: What This Looks Like in Practice

Consider a Brisbane Italian restaurant building a menu around regional Italian cooking. Their pasta programme features orecchiette con le cime di rapa — the dish the Puglian grandmother makes on Sunday. Their antipasti board has prosciutto di Parma, nduja on crostini, burrata. Their ragù uses San Marzano tomatoes and guanciale. Their secondi features a braise finished with quality olive oil.

Every one of those ingredients is available through a single MOCO order. The orecchiette comes from VEDE. The prosciutto and guanciale from MOCO’s charcuterie range. The San Marzano tomatoes and olive oil from MOCO’s pantry lines. The burrata from MOCO’s dairy section.

This is what a complete Italian wholesale food solution looks like. It means fewer suppliers, fewer accounts, fewer delivery days, and less administrative friction — with no compromise on quality.

MOCO’s Reach Across Brisbane and South-East Queensland

MOCO operates from an 18,000 square metre facility in Wacol, Western Brisbane, with 60+ refrigerated vehicles on the road six days a week. Their delivery network covers Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, and the broader South-East Queensland region, as well as Northern New South Wales.

For restaurants and hospitality venues in this footprint, MOCO delivers directly to your kitchen door. Orders can be placed online through MOCO’s platform, and their team at 1300 466 626 can assist with account setup and product questions. A Click & Collect option is also available from their Wacol warehouse for venues who prefer to collect in person.

Interstate Venues: Order VEDE Direct

MOCO’s distribution covers South-East Queensland and Northern NSW. For restaurants in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth who want VEDE’s pasta, we supply direct via overnight refrigerated cold-chain freight. The same IQF product, the same quality — shipped overnight from our Brisbane facility to your kitchen the following morning.

For interstate wholesale enquiries, contact VEDE directly at contact@vedepasta.com.au or via our contact page.

Order Through MOCO in Brisbane

To access VEDE Pasta and MOCO’s full Italian wholesale range in Brisbane and South-East Queensland, contact MOCO Food Services at mocofoodservices.com.au or call 1300 466 626. MOCO can set up a wholesale account for your venue and add VEDE to your regular order.

Related Reading

• About VEDE’s Method: Australia’s Only Fresh Puglian Pasta Maker
• Orecchiette: The Chef’s Guide for Australian Restaurants
• Cavatelli: The Chef’s Guide for Australian Restaurants
• Strozzaprete: The Chef’s Guide for Australian Restaurants
• IQF Pasta Australia: What It Is and Why It Matters
• Wholesale Fresh Pasta Brisbane
• Wholesale Food Suppliers Brisbane
• Wholesale Puglian Pasta for Sydney Restaurants
• Wholesale Puglian Pasta for Melbourne Restaurants

→ Artisanal Italian Food Wholesale — Why Serious Kitchens Choose MOCO

Further reading: Food Wholesalers Brisbane: Italian Produce & Fresh Pasta Guide — a full overview of Italian food wholesale options in Brisbane and SEQ.