Restaurant Grade Charcoal — Direct to Your Kitchen

Restaurant Grade Charcoal, Sourced Where It Matters

Direct to professional kitchens across the UK — with origins your menu can be proud of.

Our Mission

Most charcoal suppliers sell you a bag with a weight and a price. We sell you provenance.

At The BBQ Experts, we’ve spent years tracking down charcoals that professional chefs actually care about — not because they’re the cheapest option on the pallet, but because the wood, the region, and the production method genuinely affect what ends up on the plate.

If your restaurant cooks over fire, your charcoal is an ingredient. We think it’s time the industry started treating it like one.

Why Chefs Choose Us

We go to the source. Our range includes charcoals you won’t find from the big distributors — because we’ve built relationships with specialist producers rather than just buying from the same European wholesalers everyone else uses.

Our credentials are real. Eco-credentials, sustainable sourcing, and honest supply chains aren’t marketing language for us — they’re the reason we chose these specific products in the first place.

The price is competitive because the volume is right. We supply restaurant-grade charcoal on pallets structured specifically for professional kitchens, giving you the quality of a premium product at a price that works for your cost of service.

Our Charcoal Range — Origins That Tell a Story

Turkish Oak Lumpwood Turkey is the birthplace of the charcoal-grilled kebab — a culinary tradition stretching back centuries. Turkish oak burns hot, long, and clean, with the dense, slow-burning characteristics that come from hardwood grown in the right conditions. This is the charcoal that belongs under a Josper, a Bertha, or any professional grill where heat consistency is non-negotiable.

Vietnamese Coffee & Eucalyptus Two distinct charcoals, one remarkable origin. Vietnam’s coffee wood produces a mild, sweet-scented smoke that works beautifully with poultry, fish, and anything delicate. The eucalyptus burns intensely hot with almost no smoke — ideal for high-heat searing. Both carry genuine eco-credentials: coffee wood is a by-product of plantations that would otherwise burn the wood as waste, and eucalyptus is a fast-growing sustainable crop. Your kitchen gets great charcoal. The environment gets a better outcome than the alternative.

Compressed Sawdust Briquettes — Grade AAA Made from compressed wood waste with no binders or additives, these briquettes are the workhorse of a busy professional kitchen. Long, steady burns. Consistent, predictable heat. No sparks, minimal ash. The eco story is straightforward: they’re manufactured from sawdust that would otherwise go to landfill, compressed into a product that outperforms most lumpwood on burn time. Grade AAA means you get the largest, densest, most consistent pieces — not the fines and broken pieces that cheaper briquette suppliers pass off as professional grade.

South African Acacia — Pallet Exclusive Acacia wood from South Africa is a revelation for chefs who haven’t encountered it before. Dense, intensely hot, and long-burning, it delivers the kind of sustained, even heat that makes a long service session manageable. We source this exclusively in pallet quantities — 40 × 15kg bags — because that’s the volume that unlocks a genuinely competitive price for a restaurant-grade product. If you’re serious about charcoal cookery and you go through volume, this is the one to talk to us about.

Free Samples for Established Restaurants

We understand that switching charcoal supplier is a decision your head chef needs to sign off on — and nobody signs off on anything they haven’t cooked over first.

That’s why we offer free samples to established UK restaurants, hotels, and catering operations. Tell us what you cook, what grill you use, and what you’re currently burning, and we’ll put together a sample box matched to your kitchen.

Request Your Free Sample Selection: Email lee@1stgalaxy.co.uk

Ordering for Your Restaurant

All our restaurant charcoal is available in half-pallet and full pallet quantities, with national UK delivery. Volume pricing is available for regular accounts — call us on 01158 559 000 or fill in the form below and we’ll come back to you within one working day.

We’re not a call centre. You’ll speak to someone who actually knows the product.