London's busiest food market
The Borough Market is one of London's busiest and most-well known street markets and meeting point for locally-conscious restaurateurs, local foodies, and hordes of hungry tourists. Located near the London Tower and Borough metro stops, the Borough Market is a sprawling open-air marketplace that seems to offer the best-of-the-best of national and international foodstuffs - Italian salumerias, Turkish olive bars, English cheese vendors, French gourmet providers, Spanish charcuterie stands...you name it. One of the nice things about Borough Market (for visitors at least) is that it's very tourist-friendly; the vendors are obviously used to visitors and take it in good cheer without any of the mean glares that photo-happy tourists might find in some of the more traditional continental markets.
The area immediately surrounding the market is also home to dozens of restaurants and pubs serving market-fresh cuisine and around midday the market fills up with street food vendors hawking everything from traditional English steak and Stilton pies to Egyptian koshari.
I'd suggest getting there around 11:30 to peruse the market at your leisure for and hour or so before grabbing some to-go grubs and having your lunch in the beautiful gardens of the Southwark Cathedral.
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