New Covent Garden Market’s Annual Trends Report

LPS19 offering wholesale market tours to New Covent Garden Market or New Spitalfields Market

New Covent Garden Market, where over 100 wholesale traders supply fresh fruit and vegetables to some of London’s top eateries, has predicted Asian Wok Cucumbers, Celtuce, foraged sea vegetables and Crabapples as some of the hottest on-trend ingredients coming to kitchens in 2022. Meanwhile, potatoes are enjoying a moment with new varieties on the scene […]

Sham Grimshaw, founder of DDP on New Covent Garden Market, dies at age 75

Sham Grimshaw, a highly respected and admired wholesale leader who patrolled the Old and New Covent Garden Markets for many years, has died. He was 75. Born in Westminster and raised in Pimlico, Mr. Grimshaw got his start in the industry carrying cases at Victoria Station before gaining employment on a fruit stand in Pimlico. […]