Sustainable catering & cafe using surplus ingredients

Providing affordable & ethical food through our community café & catering service, with a vision towards a vibrant, healthy & sustainable food culture, committed to reducing food waste

Food with a conscience, this way

Cafe

Our cafe is a warm & welcoming space in East Oxford, with free parking and a delicious menu, all made using surplus ingredients. Learn more >

Food canapes for catering events from Waste2Taste

Catering

Our extensive and innovative catering menus provide vegan & vegetarian options that also make brilliant use of surplus ingredients. Learn more >

Community

With community at the heart of everything we do, our range of events, workshops and activities are a huge part of Waste2Taste. Learn more >

WELCOME TO WASTE2TASTE

We are an award-winning community interest company addressing food waste & FOOD poverty.

Providing affordable & Ethical food through our Catering business and Community Café – with a vision of a healthy & sustainable food culture. Committed to reducing food waste.

OUR Impact

5.7 tonnes of food waste saved from landfill - the equivalent of 3 hippopotamuses!

1,675 attendances across multiple community & resident activities, including chair exercise groups, pay-as-you-feel meals, workshops and entertainment

4,170 total free meals provided in 2024, totalling 30,733 since the beginning of the pandemic in April 2020

384.5 KgCo2e of carbon emissions savings by using Velocity Cycle Couriers for our catering deliveries

3 groups of 10-week health & wellbeing workshops held, reaching 151 people and saving 230kg in food surplus

425 Freezer of Love meals provided, and 1,010 Pay it Forward donations received

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Tired of the usual meal deal for lunch? Try surplus food that’s as creative as you are! 🎨💡 At Waste2Taste in Oxford, we turn perfectly good surplus ingredients into gourmet meals—because nothing should go to waste, especially not your
Here's this week's menu at the Waste2Taste Community Café! 🍛🍲🥗🥘 We're open Tuesday - Thursday 9.30am-2.30pm, and you'll find us on the ground floor of the Shotover View Centre on Craufurd road, OX4 2SQ (corner with Horspath road). The bus
Painting in the Sun? Yes please! ☀️🎨🖌️ We hosted another Coffee&Canvases workshop today, before our pay-as-you-feel Community Meal We took the cafe's flower vases outside in the garden and traced their shadows, then painted them with watercol