Caprera brings good food to the table

Herbs mix with tomatoes and olive oil on the black stone table — (Image credit: deniskarpenkov - Fotolia)

Recent years have done little to restore consumers' faith in the big supermarkets and a growing number are turning to independent producers for assurance on the provenance of their food. Too often the trade-off is convenience, but a new online marketplace, Caprera, questions why we need to compromise at all.

"For too long 'good food' has been reduced to nothing more than a slogan that supermarkets exploit for their own commercial benefit," says founder and chief executive Jeremy Hibbert-Garibaldi. "We believe customers deserve so much better and we want them to realise this. We want 'good food' to actually mean something again."

Caprera brings together products from an ever-growing assortment of producers spanning the UK, from meat and freshly baked goods to store-cupboard essentials. It has also tapped into the trend of craft drinks – brands include Jensen's, which produces gin from its distillery in Bermondsey, London, and Gosnells' rather more unusual tipple of mead, a honey-based drink, fermented and hand-bottled in its Peckham premises.

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