….is my favourite of all markets 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 [...]

On a sunny Sunday be warned that you will barely be able to move due to the sheer volume of people. Every Sunday street vendors come and lay out stuff all along the street whether it be vintage clothes, general carboot sale clutter, hand printed t-shirts or food ranging from falafel to the most amazing [...]

Antique shops one after the other line the southern end of Portobello Road on a Saturday. Then come the food stalls followed by the junk and vintage clothes stalls. My advice is to take the tube to Ladbroke Grove station and walk underneath the Westway (the motorway) as this is where all the best vintage [...]

It’s primarily a flower market but this is the one day of the week that everything on Columbia road is open if flowers aren’t really your thing. The street harks back to a time when as Napoleon put it “Britain is a nation of shop keepers”* with independent little shops selling anything from perfume [...]

It’s a food market and an expensive one at that. This is where all the local farmers from around London and stretching as far as Devon and Cornwall come to sell their goods on a Friday and Saturday. You can find every conceivable foodstuff here and it goes without saying that it’s pretty much mostly [...]