Brick Lane Review

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Brick Lane

  • Address: Brick La., East End, London

Fodor's Review:

The noisy center of the Bengali community is a hubbub of buying and selling. Sunday stalls have food, hardware, household goods, electrical goods, books, bikes, shoes, clothes, spices, and saris. The CDs and DVDs are as likely as not to be counterfeit, and the bargain iron may not have a plug-so be careful. But people come more to enjoy the ethnic buzz, eat curries and Bengali sweets, or indulge in salt beef on a bagel at Beigel Bake, London's 24-hour bagel bakery, a survivor of the neighborhood's Jewish past. Brick Lane's activity spills over into nearby Petticoat Lane Market with similar goods but less style.

  • Open: Sun. daybreak-noon
  • Tube: Aldgate East (Hammersmith & City or District Line), Shoreditch (East London Line)
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