The pasta on a menu is only as reliable as the supply chain behind it. For kitchens running VEDE across Queensland and Northern NSW, that supply chain runs through MOCO Food Services and the partnership is built on more than a distribution agreement.
A Local, Family-Owned Operation
MOCO Food Services is a Brisbane-based, family-owned wholesale food distributor with a focus on Italian and Mediterranean ingredients. They’re not a national logistics company that handles food as one category among many Italian foodservice is their speciality, and the product range reflects that depth.
That focus matters for VEDE. A product made with craft and specific intent needs a distributor who understands what it is and can explain it to chefs who haven’t encountered it before. MOCO’s team knows the VEDE range, knows how it’s made, and can position it correctly within a broader Italian menu context.
Beyond Pasta: A Complete Italian Pantry
MOCO supplies over 5,000 products which means a kitchen running VEDE through MOCO can source most of its Italian programme from a single order:
- San Marzano and passata tomatoes for sauce bases
- Imported Italian charcuterie guanciale, nduja, prosciutto, pancetta
- Specialty cheeses parmigiano reggiano, pecorino, burrata, stracciatella
- Premium olive oils, aged balsamic, and wine vinegars
- Specialty flours and pantry staples for complete Italian mise en place
For a chef building a dish around VEDE’s orecchiette and nduja, the nduja can come from the same MOCO order. That operational simplicity fewer suppliers, fewer invoices, fewer delivery windows to manage has real value in a busy kitchen.
Built for Italian and Modern Australian Kitchens
MOCO serves the full range of Brisbane’s hospitality sector from fine dining to casual venues, hotels, cafés, and catering operations. Their Italian range is deep enough to support an entirely Italian-focused menu or to supplement a broader modern Australian programme with the right imported and local specialty ingredients.
VEDE fits naturally into both contexts. The sourdough long cuts and stretched Puglian short shapes are at home in fine dining and in trattorias, in tasting menus and in high-volume pasta specials. MOCO can support whichever direction a kitchen takes.
Menu Ideas: VEDE Shapes + MOCO Ingredients
- Strascinate nero with squid ink, Moreton Bay bug, MOCO cherry tomatoes, and chilli a complete seafood special sourced from one order
- Orecchiette with MOCO nduja, roasted capsicum, stracciatella classic southern Italian with premium imported product
- Pappardelle with slow-braised beef shin, MOCO parmigiano, and gremolata the kind of dish that earns regulars
- Cavatelli with MOCO guanciale, pecorino, black pepper a riff on cacio e pepe that suits the short shape’s weight
How to Order
VEDE Pasta is available through MOCO Food Services with weekly delivery across Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Scenic Rim, and Northern Rivers NSW. Click & Collect is available at Wacol for venues that prefer to pick up.
To get started, contact the VEDE team we’ll connect you with MOCO and get your account set up.