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Borough Market: London's Best-Known Food Market
Borough Market at the southern end of London Bridge is London's best-known food market. Trading has gone on here for more than a thousand years, but the market took its present shape in 1756, when Parliament abolished the old one and the locals raised the money to open their own. Under the Victorian ironwork you'll now find artisan cheeses, sourdough bread and hot food from all over the world.
Camden Market: The London Market with a Punk Soul
Camden Market is six markets under a single brand: former stables and a horse hospital by Regent's Canal, where today you'll find punk fashion and street food from all over the world. Read on to find out how a horse yard turned into one of the biggest markets in the United Kingdom, why a statue of Amy Winehouse stands there - and why I only recommend it as a food tip with a caveat.
Broadway Market: A Neighborhood Saturday Market in London's Hackney
Broadway Market is a neighborhood Saturday market in London's Hackney, on a street between London Fields park and Regent's Canal. The road that drovers once used to walk cattle to slaughter now fills every Saturday with more than 150 stalls selling farm produce, street food and crafts. The shops along the street are open all week; the market belongs to Saturday.
Curepipe Market: Street Food in the Middle of Mauritius
Curepipe Market is a daily covered market in the second largest town in Mauritius, which sits in the middle of the island at over 550 meters. Inside it sells fruit and vegetables from the interior; out front, stalls sell farata, dholl puri and other Mauritian street food. Hardly any tourists make it up here, so the prices are the ones locals pay, and the bus station next to the market is named after Jan Palach.
Quatre Bornes Market: A Clothes Market and Street Food in Mauritius
Quatre Bornes Market is the town market on the central plateau of Mauritius: a food hall on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the island's best-known clothes market on Thursdays and Sundays, and all week long a food court of small bistros and stalls selling dholl puri, gâteaux piment or tekwa. Locals come in from all over the island, tourists are rare and the food is cheap.
Central Market in Port Louis: The Bazaar of the Mauritian Capital
The covered market in the center of Port Louis has been selling fruit, vegetables, spices and fish since 1845 - its ornate cast-iron gates sailed in from Glasgow. The main hall smells of herbs and masala, the side halls belong to meat and fish, and a separate building houses small bistros serving alouda. Saturday is the busiest day, and you only haggle upstairs among the souvenirs.
Victoria Station Market: Street Food in the New Port Louis Terminal
The Victoria Station Market is a market hall inside the Victoria Urban Terminal, a transport hub in the center of Port Louis with buses to the south and west of Mauritius and the Metro Express to Quatre Bornes and Curepipe. Under the same roof as the station you'll find fruit stalls, windows serving dholl puri, roti and gâteaux piments for the road, and a supermarket.
Machaneh Yehudah Market: The Jerusalem Souk That Transforms Before Shabbat
The Machaneh Yehudah market is the main marketplace of West Jerusalem: more than 270 stalls selling olives, spices and halva, with bistros and bars tucked in between them. It borrowed its name from a neighborhood it doesn't belong to, and its whole week builds toward Friday afternoon - the sell-off before Shabbat, after which the packed lanes empty out in a matter of minutes. I was there to see it.
Arab Markets by Damascus Gate: Shopping in Jerusalem Even on Shabbat
While western Jerusalem falls silent for Shabbat, past Damascus Gate vendors keep weighing vegetables on hand scales and cardamom coffee still fills the air. The Arab markets in the Old City's Muslim Quarter run on their own calendar. I walked through them on a Saturday morning - from empty alleys to a cup of coffee, where the cafe owner remembered Czechoslovakia.
The Old Market in Bethlehem: A Morning Souk Under Stone Arches
The old market in Bethlehem's historic center starts at the end of Al Mdbasseh Street and winds through lanes under stone arches all the way to Manger Square. Every morning farmers from the surrounding villages bring in their produce - villages like Battir, whose terraces are on the UNESCO list. And at the food stalls a big metal tray sends up the smell of stewed beans called ful.