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Markets This lively market lies at the heart of
London’s Caribbean community, so
Even if you’re not looking for cut-price cabbages or a silk expect a wonderful assortment of
sari, it’s worth paying a visit to one of London’s crowded, Afro-Caribbean food, from goats’
meat, pigs’ feet and salt fish to
colourful markets. Many mix English traditions with those plantain, yams and breadfruit. As
of more recent immigrants, creating an exotic atmosphere well as fresh produce, stalls are
and a fascinating patchwork of merchandise. At some, the laden with crafts, fabrics, children’s
toys and secondhand vinyl. On the
seasoned Cockney hawkers have honed their sales patter third Saturday of the month the
to an entertaining art, which reaches fever pitch just before market is taken over by vintage
closing time as they advertise ever-plummeting prices. clothes, jewellery and furniture. In
nearby Brixton Village and Market
Keep your wits about you and your hand on your bag Row there is an abundance of street
and join in the fun. food restaurants and cafés, serving
everything from Neapolitan pizzas
Archway Market Borough Market to bowls of delicious ramen.
Holloway Rd N19. 1 Archway. Southwark St SE1. Map 15 B4. Broadway Market
@ 4, 17, 41, 43, 143, 271. Open noon– 1 London Bridge, Borough. Open
6pm Thu, 10am–5pm Sat. 10am–5pm Wed & Thu, 10am–6pm Fri, Broadway Market, between Andrews
This young and growing market is 8am–5pm Sat; for lunch: 10am–5pm Rd & Westgate St E8. @ 236, 394.
one of North London’s best kept Mon & Tue. See p180. Open 7:30am–7pm Sat.
secrets. Its speciality traders are On one of London’s most ancient Although this market is a bit tricky
committed to offering shoppers trading sites, Borough has for many to get to because it’s not served
things great produce, including years been a wholesale market by the Tube, it’s worth getting a
organic cheeses, breads and cakes, catering to the restaurant and hotel bus from Islington or walking
gourmet pickles and chutneys, farm- trade. Open to the public from from Bethnal Green Tube. One of
pressed juices and much more. Tasty Wednesday to Saturday, the award- London’s oldest, Broadway Market
lunch options include Breton crêpes, winning market has a reputation had gone into decline until its
spicy curries and organic hot dogs. as London’s premier centre for fine rebirth as a popular organic farmers’
Several craft stalls sell unusual foods, selling a vast array of British market. On Saturdays, the historic
objects and gifts. and international foodstuffs. Among street running between London
the cornucopia is organic meat, fish Fields and the Regent’s Canal
Bermondsey Market and produce, top-quality handmade comes alive with around 40 stalls
(New Caledonian Market) cheeses, breads, sweets and selling fruit and vegetables,
chocolates, plus coffees, teas and cheeses, baked goods, meats and
Long Lane and Bermondsey St SE1. also soaps. It’s a favourite foraging confectionery. Also lining Broadway
Map 15 C5. 1 London Bridge, ground for the city’s celebrity chefs. Market are some interesting, arty
Borough. Open 6am–2pm Fri. Starts shops, catering to the young creative
closing midday. See pp186–7. Brick Lane Market types who have been colonizing this
Bermondsey is the gathering point part of Hackney over the past couple
for London’s antique traders every Brick Lane E1. Map 8 E5. of decades. Black Truffle (No. 4)
Friday. Serious collectors start 1 Shoreditch, Liverpool St, Aldgate stocks a range of accessories made
early and scrutinize the paintings, East. Open 11am–6pm Sat, by independent designers – both
the silver and the vast array of 10am–5pm Sun. See pp174–5. local and international – while textile
old jewellery. Browsers might This massively popular East End designer Barley Massey sells her own
uncover some interesting jamboree is at its best around its unusual designs and those of others
curiosities but most bargains go gloriously frayed edges. Pick at Fabrications (No. 7). L’Eau à la
before 9am. through the mish-mash of junk Bouche (No. 35-37) is a deli offering
sold on Bethnal Green Road or everthing from charcuterie to fruit
Berwick Street Market head east on Cheshire Street, past tarts. When it’s time to refuel, duck
the outcrop of fashionable home- into the Dove pub (No. 24–28) for a
Berwick St W1. Map 13 A1. design and gift shops, to explore choice of Belgian beers.
1 Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Sq. the indoor stalls, packed with tatty
Open 9am–6pm Mon–Sat. See p112. furniture and old books. Much of Camden Lock Market
The spirited costermongers of the action takes place in cobbled
Soho’s Berwick Street sell some Sclater Street and the plots on either Chalk Farm Road NW1. 1 Camden
of the cheapest and most appealing side. Here, you’ll find everything Town. Open 9:30am–6pm daily.
fruit and vegetables in the West End. from fresh shellfish and trainers to Camden Lock Market has grown
Spanish black radish, star fruit and old power tools and new bicycles. swiftly since its opening in 1974,
Italian plum tomatoes are among Further south on Brick Lane itself, spreading along Chalk Farm Road
the produce you might find here, the trendy boutiques and cafés give and Camden High Street. Crafts, new
plus a variety of nuts and sweets. way to spice shops and curry and second-hand street fashion,
The market is good for fabrics restaurants in this centre for London’s wholefoods, books, records and
and cheap household goods Bangladeshi community. antiques make up most of what’s
too, as well as leather handbags. on offer. Its setting alongside the
Separated from Berwick Street by Brixton Market Regent’s Canal is a bonus, too. Often,
a passageway is the quieter Rupert young people come here simply to
Street market, where stallholders Electric Ave SW9. 1 Brixton. enjoy the vibrant atmosphere,
sell very reasonably priced Open 8am–6pm Mon, Tue, Thu–Sat, especially at weekends when Camden
street fashion. 8am–3pm Wed. Lock is abuzz with activity (see p250).

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