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We’re bringing our next level ice cream to the home of cricket.

If you’re on your way to Lord’s this summer, keep an eye out for the Northern Bloc stations that will be around the infamous ground. We’ve got our hard-to-miss van as well as a number of Northern Bloc pods and our ice cream bikes so you’ll be able to find us all around the ground. […]

The Vanilla Shortage: Why Madagascan Vanilla is anything but

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During the last decade, we as consumers have slipped into a belief that Vanilla is the plain, sometimes “boring” version of a food product – particularly Ice Cream. With it come the assumption that Vanilla, because of the plainness of its flavour, should cost the least. This isn’t the case. Mainly down to two reasons, […]

Meet our Award Winning Kid’s Ice Cream – Little Bloc

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Launched last year our range of ice cream for kids has just scooped its first award! Last night Little Bloc was recognised in the ‘Best Innovation’ category at the Garbutt and Elliott Yorkshire Food Entrepreneur awards. The awards ceremony took place in York at The Hospitium, where we joined over 120 of Yorkshire’s best producers, […]

Why vegan ice cream?

Vegan

Why now? Why did we make a vegan ice cream? Well, we don’t jump on trends. We make products that won’t go out of style next season. We do what we believe in, and we don’t think the ‘hype’ around plant-based food will die down any time soon. We’ve seen the research; Britain is more […]

NBºC at SIGEP

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Anyone who knows us knows we’re constantly working to create the ultimate ice cream. But to be the best, you have to know what else is out there and make sure you’re ahead of the curve. So we flew out to Italy for SIGEP – an international trade show for gelato, coffee and pastry – […]

Bloc Party // Temple

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What do you get when you cross a whole bunch of vegans with an ice cream brand? A pretty epic party, as it turns out. With the launch of our vegan range just around the corner and after two years of trialling, testing (the best bit) and repeating, we were ready to let off some […]

THIS is ice cream.

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We didn’t set out to make ordinary ice cream with unmemorable flavours and a list of unpronounceable ingredients. We set out to create the ultimate ice cream. Pairing the usual with the unusual, applying science and craft to every new flavour. Above all we set out to create a natural ice cream, made with real […]

NB x OCADO

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GAME CHANGER… We’re now stocked at OCADO so you can now have Northern Bl°c delivered direct to your door. You can find the following flavours: Black Treacle Ice Cream White Chocolate & Strawberry Meringue Ice Cream Ginger Caramel Ice Cream Grapefruit & Bergamot Sorbet YOU’RE WELCOME.

New flavour!

Flavours

Intorducing our new flavour… Grapefruit & Bergamot Sorbet Fragrant bergamot brings sweet and floral notes to the gentle sour of this pink grapefruit sorbet. It might just be your new favourite flavour! Available in 500ml tubs from OCADO.

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