Brian Pelletier and Cindy Higgerson (follow her on Twitter at @Mcharcuterie) Friday were looking over the space that is their yet-to-open specialty food shop, Larder & Cupboard, at 7310 Manchester Road in Maplewood. Higgerson will manage the store.
Pelletier said the shop should open by November. “If we’re not open by November 1 we’ve got all kinds of problems,” he said. “Really, we have to do the plumbing and we have to get the final health inspection and the permits. There’s really not a lot of stuff we need to do.”
Butcher paper should cover the windows next week as they start filling the shop with inventory.
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Pelletier said the inventory is coming from all over. “They’re a lot of small purveyors—people that aren’t working with a big distributor. It’s stuff that you can’t get anyplace else.”
Pelletier owns Kakao Chocolate, with locations in Maplewood, south St. Louis and Clayton.
Awesome addition to the neighborhood.
I can’t wait, man. Maplewood just gets better and better.