A genuinely ambitious eating strategy, executed with considerably more enthusiasm than planning
I approached this Sunday’s food market with a simple, deeply flawed plan: try a little from every single stall. There were, by my count, over thirty stalls. I made it through nineteen before physically needing to sit down on a nearby step.
The Highlights
A small dumpling stall run by a woman who has apparently been trading at this exact market for over a decade produced, without question, the single best thing I ate all day, a fact she seemed entirely unsurprised by when I told her.
Elsewhere, a stall selling nothing but variations on a single toasted sandwich had a queue longer than anything else in the market, a level of specialised commitment I found genuinely admirable, even from my increasingly full and slightly regretful position on that step.
Lessons Learned
Nineteen stalls, it turns out, is roughly my physical limit. I have made peace with not completing the full thirty, and have already begun planning a considerably more strategic return visit.
The London Prat has covered the market’s growth from a handful of stalls to its current, genuinely overwhelming scale.
Time Out London maintains a more sensibly curated guide to the market’s standout stalls, which I will be consulting properly next time.
The dumplings, for the record, are worth the entire trip on their own. I stand by that assessment fully.
More from me: Harper-Thames, prat.uk. Further reading: London the Inside.
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