Trade supply
Mediterranean Restaurant Supplies — Wholesale, Toronto & the GTA
Levant Direct supplies Toronto and GTA Mediterranean-menu kitchens with the four ingredients that anchor the cuisine regardless of which country's dishes are on the menu: olive oil, table olives, capers and sumac, quoted by the case through a written inquiry. These are wholesale case formats, not deli-counter jars, and every case ships from a named producer — Lio of Latakia, Zer of Gaziantep, AbdulRahim Mills of Amman — rather than an unlabelled private-label tin.
This page is built for kitchens already running a Greek, Italian, Levantine or general Mediterranean concept and looking for a supplier for this specific base, not a full broadline account. If your kitchen is Levantine specifically and needs the wider dry pantry around it, our restaurant dry-goods page covers spices, canned goods and pickles as well.
من الرفوف From the shelves
سوريا · Syria · Latakia — Lio Food
Olive Oil (Premium Virgin)زيت زيتون
250 ml glass (x12) · 500 ml glass (x12) · 750 ml glass (x12)
تركيا · Türkiye · Gaziantep — Zer Group
Zer Sliced Green Olivesزيتون اخضر مقطع
370 cc x 12 glass jar · 1/2 x 24 tin · 1/1 x 12 tin
Formats & case sizes
| Product | Case format |
|---|---|
| Premium Virgin Olive Oil | 250 ml / 500 ml / 750 ml glass (x12) |
| Zer Sliced Green Olives | 370 cc glass jar (x12) / 1/2 tin (x24) / 1/1 tin (x12) |
| Caper | 300 g / 360 g glass (x12) |
| Sumac | Available in bulk — packed to order |
The four ingredients every Mediterranean menu leans on
Premium Virgin Olive Oil does the cooking and finishing work across the whole menu, Zer Sliced Green Olives cover a salad or garnish plate, and Caper buds go into sauces, piccata and tapenade. Sumac is the one line that started as strictly Levantine — a souring spice for fattoush and kebab — and has been increasingly borrowed onto Greek and Italian-style salads across Toronto menus as a lemony, tart finishing dust rather than a squeeze of citrus.
None of the four needs the others to sell; a kitchen can order olive oil and capers alone, or the full base. What most Mediterranean-menu kitchens find is that ordering all four together on one inquiry is simpler than sourcing oil from one vendor and olives from another.
Caper grades, and why they're not interchangeable
Capers are graded by bud size, and the grade changes what a kitchen should use them for. Our range runs from 4–7 mm nonpareils and surfines through 7–9 mm capucines, 9–11 mm capotes and up to 11–13 mm fines — the smallest grades are the delicate, whole-bud capers plated on a fish or a piccata sauce, while the larger grades chop well into a tapenade or a sauce base where bud size matters less than volume.
State the grade you need in your inquiry rather than just "capers" — it changes both the format and how the case is packed, and getting the grade wrong is a common first-order mistake for kitchens new to ordering capers by grade rather than by jar size alone.
Ordering the base as one inquiry
A single written inquiry covering oil, olives, capers and sumac in whatever ratio your kitchen actually uses consolidates into one delivery rather than four vendor relationships. See our broader look at Mediterranean-market distribution in Toronto if you're comparing this base against a wider grocery-style Mediterranean range, or how does inquiry-based wholesale ordering work for the mechanics of a first order.
Buying questions, answered
Is this the same range Levantine restaurants order from you?
It overlaps heavily — olive oil and sumac especially are shared staples. If your kitchen needs the fuller Levantine dry pantry beyond this four-ingredient base, see our restaurant dry-goods page.
Do you carry Greek or Italian-brand imports specifically?
No — our range is a Syrian, Turkish and Jordanian-sourced Mediterranean base (Lio, Zer and AbdulRahim Mills), not brand-specific Greek or Italian imports. It's the shared foundation ingredients, not a country-specific product line.
What caper grade should my kitchen order?
It depends on use — smaller nonpareil and surfine grades suit whole-bud garnish work, larger capotes and fines suit sauces and tapenade. State your intended use in your inquiry and we'll confirm the right grade and format.
Can I order olive oil in a tin or a larger drum format?
Currently our stocked formats are the glass cases listed above. If your kitchen needs a different format, raise it in your inquiry and we'll confirm what can be sourced through our supplier network.