Borough Market is London’s oldest food market. It was established on the south bank of the Thames when the Romans built the first London Bridge and has occupied its present site for 250 years. By the Nineties things were looking gloomy however and all that was left was a wholesale market in a dilapidated area. Then, in 1998, a group of trustees and traders began a new food market on the same site between Southwark Street and Stoney Street in an attempt to bring the area back to life.
Now the market is the country’s most important retail market for fine foods and shoppers come from all over London and beyond to stroll round the market and buy organic meat, cheese, fruit, vegetables and patisserie from enthusiastic and knowledgeable stallholders.
You can spend hours on end walking past food stalls sampling the many delicacies on offer. Personal favourites of mine include a stall call Acqualagna, who make the most amazing truffle oil using only fresh ingredients and fresh truffles with no preservatives or artificial flavourings.
I can also highly recommend La Tua Pasta, who make the finest and freshest Italian pasta working with specialist pasta chefs and using carefully selected and imported ingredients of the highest quality from the most respected Italian providers. All their pasta is handmade to traditional Italian recipes. Once you’ve sampled their gnocchi agli spinaci (spinach) and tagliolini al raggio di sole (saffron and lemon) you will never ever be able to eat supermarket pasta again.
Borough Market
Borough High Street
London
SE1 9DE
Opening Times:
Every Thu 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Fri 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM; Sat 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
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