London Borough Market

VL, SP and I went to Borough Market to get the ingredients for our brunch today.

It is a really nice sunny day and the market was packed with people.

The Borough Market is mainly a market that sells food. There are lots more variety than Paddy's Market. The food are all of good quality and it comes with a matching price tag. It is certainly not a place for bargains!

Fruits and vegetables are generally not that fresh in the supermarket. So we were quite happy to see a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables here. SP was able to get a range of mushrooms from the stalls last time. Unfortunately, they had less choices yesterday and we were forced to settle with 6 varieties of mushrooms.

SP, the photographer, was not cooperating with me this time. So there are no photos on the mushrooms. You get a photo of cherry tomatoes instead.

Apart from raw produces, they also sell prepared food, including olives, pickle, jam, cured salmon, cured ham.

I tried some of the cured salmon from Scandelicious. The salmon is cured (not smoked) using various herbs and fruits.  It is absolutely divine. It is very expensive at 39 pounds a kilo, so I only managed to convince myself to get 4 slices at the time. I will definitely need to source it from somewhere else in the future! (again, no photos on the salmon)


VL got some olives from this stall.

A few bakery also set up stalls at the market. We bought some foie gras and wine from the French food & wine stall and naturally, we needed some bread to go with it.

The bread shop was really 'hard-sell' on their coriander and carrots bread, so we bought one. It wasn't the best bread to get with foie gras. But it was nice by itself.

Update (16/07/06): we ate half of the foie gras and the salmon for breakfast today. It is a bit luxury, but it's certainly very delicious.


We don't have a photo on our piece of bread. Here is a substitute.

There is also a stall that sells beers only. They have shelves and shelves of beer from around the world. It looked quite impressive. Having been to Belgium and Czech recently, we know their prices are greatly inflated, so we didn't get anything.



All these lead to a useless and hardly productive conclusion: it is great to have money in London! You can always get the finest things if you have £££ :P

For more information:

http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/