Borough Market ★★☆
A fabulous food market in Southwark
This thousand-year-old market is the best food market in central London, ideal for picnic pickings with more than 100 stalls hawking everything from fruit and veg to gourmet cheeses, bakeries to coffee shops, olives and nuts to chocolate and chacuterie.
Over the past 20 years, many the old wholesale vendors have given way to eateries and more trendy retail speciality culinary stalls, making the market into much more of a retail shopping destination.
The current market buildings are typical Victorian market—all glass and steel from 1851—built under and around the brick abutments of the elevated viaduct rail lines connecting London Bridge Station (London's oldest) to Blackfriars and Cannon Street.
Lunch time
If you want something more than a picnic —or something hot to add to it—here are just a few some of the cafes, restaurants, street food stands, and prepared food stalls in and right around Borough Market:
Open daily
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Bedales - Wine bar and shop
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Feng Sushi - Seasonal, sustainably-sourced sushi
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Fish! Restaurant - Fresh simple seafood
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Padella - Freshly-made pasta in a stylish setting
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Patisserie Lila - Hot drinks, cakes and light lunches
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Rabot 1745 - Restaurant, bar and shop is dedicated to cocoa
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Roast - Beautiful roast meats, fresh fish and seasonal game
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The Globe Tavern - Modern British gastropub
Open Mon-Sat
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Applebee's Fish - Fishmongers and cafe
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Arabica Bar & Kitchen - Levantine-inspired food
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Balkan Bites - Vegetarian pastries
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Elliot’s Cafe - Cafe serving simple seasonal fare
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Ethiopian Flavours - Authentic Ethiopian dishes
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Gourmet Goat - Eastern Mediterranean-influenced dishes made with kid goat meat
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Gujarati Rasoi - Vegetarian food from Gujurat, India
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Kappacasein - Extraordinary raclette, using cheese from Bermondsey
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Horn OK Please - Indian vegetarian street food
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Khanom Krok - Authentic Thai street food
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L’ailOlive - Garlic and chilli-focused dishes from the Orient
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Le Marché du Quartier - French food and wine
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Mountain’s Boston Sausage - All things Lincolnshire sausage
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Mrs King’s Pork Pies - Famed Melton Mowbray pork pies
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Nana Fanny’s - Salt beef beigels and falafel wraps
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Pieminister - Hot pies made with fresh, responsibly sourced ingredients
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Porteña - Argentine treats and street food
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Roast Hog - Tuscan porchetta-inspired spit roast hog
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Roast to Go - Hot butties and roast meat sandwiches
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Scotchtails - The humble scotch egg, lovingly reinvented
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Silka - Light, flavoursome Indian cooking
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Soul Food - A taste of the Caribbean
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Tapas Brindisa - Spanish tapas, with ingredients sourced from trusted producers
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The German Deli - Authentic German dishes
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Wokit - Asian-inspired noodle and rice dishes
Open Wed-Sat
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Hobbs Meat Roast - Slow-cooked meat baguettes
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Maria’s Market Cafe - Cafe serving hearty English breakfast
Open Thurs-Sat
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Koshari Street - Humble Egyptian street food
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The Big V - Simple but flavoursome vegan and vegetarian fare