Borough Market, Maltby Street, Portobello Road, and Columbia Road Each Has Its Best Day and Its Worst Day
From Bohiney and The London Prat.
By Fiona MacLeod | UKLondonInfo.com
Borough Market
Borough Market on London Bridge is best visited on a Thursday or Friday morning: the full market is operational (unlike the reduced weekday version that some visitors encounter), the crowd has not yet reached the Saturday peak that makes movement difficult, and the specific quality of the market — the cheese stalls, the specialist bakers, the artisan meat and fish vendors whose sourcing conversations are educational — is most accessible when the crowd allows lingering at individual stalls. Saturday at Borough Market is an experience in crowd management rather than in the market itself.
Maltby Street
Maltby Street Market on Saturday mornings (9am to 3pm) is the specific market that the Borough Market Saturday crowd has made necessary: the traders who found Borough Market’s commercial evolution toward tourism had changed the character of the experience relocated or expanded to Maltby Street, which retains the specific atmosphere of a market that serves the people who live nearby as much as the people who are visiting. The railway arches, the small producers, and the specific Saturday morning energy of a market that is still discovering its scale make Maltby Street the Borough Market that Borough Market used to be.
Columbia Road
Columbia Road Flower Market operates only on Sunday mornings (8am to 3pm) and is the specific single-product market that the full London market calendar produces: an entire street of flower sellers, the specific sensory experience of cut flowers in volume at outdoor market prices, and the Sunday morning atmosphere of a neighbourhood that has organised a weekly celebration of a single commodity. The adjacent streets (Ezra Street, Ravenscroft Street) have the specific independent shops that the Sunday morning flower market crowd has generated: coffee shops, brunch spots, independent food and homewares.
The Best Market Day
The best single market day in London: Saturday morning beginning at Maltby Street (9am), walking north along the Bermondsey Street to the Fashion and Textile Museum (free on Saturdays from 11am with selected exhibitions), continuing to Borough Market for cheese and bread at lunchtime, then crossing London Bridge for the Borough High Street food stalls. The full day covers the South Bank’s best food market culture in sequence, with walking as the transit, and ends with the specific afternoon quality of the South Bank waterfront when the morning market energy has settled.
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