London has some great street markets: Portobello Road for antiques, Columbia Road for flowers, Petticoat Lane for clothes and household items. It doesn't have a huge number of covered markets, though. The best-known is Borough Market, which is arguably Britain's "food central". By this I mean that if national trends are largely started or amplified in London, any changes to the way we eat will be reflected in and may be led from Borough Market. Londoners who are passionate about food shop there. There are shops and stalls selling fruit and vegetables, rare meats (some free-range and organic), amazing cheeses, bread and baked goods, jams and preserves, oil, honey, seafood from the coast, all sorts of things. Fresh tofu! Quinces! Italian ham! Live oysters! Raw chocolate!
There are plenty of vendors who invite you to "try before you buy" -- to take a taste for free. There is also lots of street food for lunch -- fantastic sausages, fried scallops, hot spiced apple juice. And there are tea shops with beautiful cakes and pastries, and delicious restaurants, and the pub that Bridget Jones lived above in the movie.
Every year in October, the market hosts a loud and cheerful performance by a troupe of actors . They dress in medieval costume and celebrate the harvest. First they walk along the riverbank from the nearby Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to the market, and then they perform a play to amuse adults and children. Nobody understands all the words, but the meaning is clear! You can see the photos here and here and (the best) here .
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