Broadway Market

Broadway Market is my favourite market as it combines vintage clothes, amazing food and ingredients like what you would find at borough market (27 varieties of sweet balsamic vinegar and little testers on everything), flowers, organic shampoo, cupcakes, olives etc.. all set on one of my favourite streets in Bethnal Green and being in Bethnal Green there are few tourists. It’s mainly locals, but don’t worry even the stall vendors probably went to private schools, suffice to say it’s a part of Bethnal Green that has been gentrified to the hilt. It’s a friendly place too, in an unobtrusive kind of way and there are more than enough well dressed people to stare at whilst drinking your morning coffee outside La Bouche. I’ve come for the spice stand today to buy cinnamon. I put cinnamon in everything, whenever any one says “ooh that’s so good, what’s in it?” the answer always comes back, “cinnamon”. The best part is there are countless stands to buy amazing food like falafel and vegetarian curry that sort of thing.

It should also be pointed out that Broadway market comes first on my gag list. This meaning if you threw a stone you will no doubt hit someone who falls under any of the following;
1. Owning a pushchair costing as much as a small car.
2. Wearing either or all; pea coat/rayban wayfarers/boat shoes/turned up jeans/fisherman jumper/checked shirt/suede boots.
3. Riding a fixed gear bike (I call them lady bottom bikes due to the fact that the people who ride them wear tight jeans which make them wiggle their bum when when they walk.)
4. Wearing a scarf in a chelsea knot even if it’s 80 degrees.
5. People called India or Cosmo.