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Travel | London
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London has a different
market for all the days
and all the ways there
is cash to spend.
It has street markets, indoor markets,
markets in arcades, archways and shipping
containers, markets selling fish and meat or
fruit and vegetables or bric-a-brac, book fairs,
flea markets, car-boots and pop-ups, vinyl
fairs, collectibles and antique bazaars,
makers’ markets and art fairs, farmers’
markets, Christmas markets and charity
fetes, street-food markets, and of
course a stock market.
3 French cheese at a stall in Borough Market. Choose from workaday markets in
neighbourhoods such as Tooting, Peckham
and Southall – where locals fill their larders
with plantains from the Caribbean, jaggery
from India and hot mint from Vietnam – to
the weekly farmers’ markets that set up in
gentrified districts, including Islington,
Hackney and Swiss Cottage. They offer
artisan bread, cheeses, homemade chutneys
and jams, and organic, biodynamic fare.
4 Seared octopus, salmon and tuna sashimi, and chilli
salt squid at E&O – a good choice for dim sum near
Portobello Road Market. If it’s lunchtime, head to Exmouth Market,
Bermondsey’s Maltby Street or Rupert
Street in Soho for on-trend street food:
1 Portobello Road Market.
2 Berwick Street Market was once a traditional fresh
produce market – nowadays it’s home to some excellent
street food.
It has street markets, indoor markets, markets in arcades,
archways and shipping containers, markets selling fish
and meat or fruit and vegetables or bric-a-brac...
everything from Korean BBQ tacos
and custard doughnuts to fusion tapas
and cold-drip coffee. If it’s 4am, try
a full English breakfast at the cafés around
the early-hours wholesale markets at
Smithfield, Borough or Billingsgate.
Markets are part of the London vernacular:
cockney rhyming slang started in the
markets. The historic market on Bethnal
Green’s Roman Road (where cockneys
originate) is known as ‘The Roman’, and
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