Urban Larder's Polly

Rawr stockist Urban Larder has moved, almost a year after it first opened. The independently run shop, selling all sorts of local products and kitsch gifts, has moved to a more prominent position on Mill Road, Cambridge (Romsey side of the bridge). Polly’s got lots more space for lots more goodies, and we’re looking forward to picking up some yummy bits every time we drop off some more chocolate!

Urban Larder’s new address:

No.9 The Broadway, Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3NA

(A few doors along from the Black Cat Cafe)

Urban Larder opened just a short time ago on Halloween, and already stocks a wide and impressive range of local wholefoods and delicacies (including, from today, Rawr chocolate!). Unique in its incredibly cute location – a small shop surrounded by greenery and antiques in Hope Yard, with pink cake wallpaper – it’s well worth a visit. Lots of veggie and vegan treats on offer, and some gorgeous fresh fruit.

When we first received an email from a customer offering to doodle all over our packaging we were a little sceptical but thought, hey, who knows.. “maybe she’s good.” Well good was definitely an understatement!

Nancy's first doodles

We were so impressed with the talented Ely artist, Nancy Voak’s, artwork that we asked her to do designs for all of our flavours. She soon came back to us with some amazing illustrations for each of our eight main bars. Hand drawn on paper, we thought.. this is really cool but it needs some colour! Thankfully we have some in-house skills too, so we set off meticulously filling in the colours (we felt like kids with a colouring book.. well, not quite!).

Nancy’s imaginative designs have been a hit with everyone we’ve talked to and I especially love her latest one, Christmas. Here they all are in their full glory:

Cambridge Farmers Outlet on Lensfield Road was one of the very first shops to stock Rawr when we moved away from the market a year ago. It’s the only shop we stock up personally every week, and as such we feel quite attached to the place – we get to see what’s selling well and can trial new products and flavours. This week we finally moved in all of our display boxes – a box of small and large Rawr bars for each of our 8 flavours, plus bowls of Nut Power – that’s 200 choccie bars in all!

I was also really pleased to see that we’re not the only raw food there anymore – in addition to the fab fruit and veg selection you can also now buy packets of raw buckwheat, oats, sprouting mixes and even 20p sprouting bags! Fantastic!