best London market for a Saturday afternoon

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Jan 6th, 2007, 10:49 AM

crazy4Hawaii

Original Poster

Join Date: Nov 2003

Posts: 1,455

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

best London market for a Saturday afternoon

Our first Saturday afternoon in London - after the Trooping of Colour - is free to meander and explore. We thought we might enjoy one of the markets. My daughter likes funky clothes, my husband likes antiques, and I like food (ha!). Which market would you recommend?

Jan 6th, 2007, 10:51 AM

crazy4Hawaii

Original Poster

Join Date: Nov 2003

Posts: 1,455

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Oops, I'm sorry! I meant Trooping THE Colour.

Jan 6th, 2007, 11:26 AM

audere_est_facere

Join Date: Jul 2006

Posts: 3,057

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

Clothes - Camden Market (which also has a small antiques bit)

Antiques - Camden Passage (which isnt the same as Camden Market - it's in Islington) or Portobello Rd

Food - Borough Market.

Choices choices choices. Innit.

Jan 6th, 2007, 11:47 AM

Carrybean

Join Date: Apr 2004

Posts: 5,950

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

You can check out Portobello Road. Usually, people try to get there early on Saturday mornings but it's open in the afternoon. Not sure there are many bargains but might fit the bill.

http://tinyurl.com/ydwuqe

Jan 6th, 2007, 01:16 PM

papagena

Join Date: Jan 2004

Posts: 400

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

If you go to Portobello road market there are vintage clothes for your daughter and antiques for your husband - you can go to the cupcake shop but apart from that it's not really a food place. Personally I hate the place but I think it fits your requirements best.

Maybe you could go to Borough market first for lunch since that's the real foodie market. Or Spitalfields has nice food stalls and restaurants for lunch and clothes stalls for your daughter, but I'm not sure about antiques.