Farmers' Markets C/D?

and farmers' markets are almost always good for things like apples and root veggies. DUD when they start trotting out the expensive artisanal meats (!!) and charging a pretty penny for something that's been rotting in the heat all morning.

it seems you can get away with fudging the rules a little if your market is not accredited to the national organisation.

Dud when meat is vacuum-packed in its own JUICE also £5 runny cheese is a big dudder when you've sourced it elsewhere for £1.

I go to Borough market and buy the following:

1. 60p espresso macchiato piccolo from Monmouth Coffee because it's similar to Italian cappuccino rather than the huge coffee-flavoured milk drink you get here also the staff there KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT when I ask for it.
2. Whatever cheap runny Brique cheese there is, usually about £2.
3. The best watercress I've ever had.
4. Very dense pork pie of esteemed provenance £3.50

Ed and £20 are soon parted the minute he steps into the place.

roffles: i think the 'ethos' is to get young professionals to part with their hard-earned. nothing wrong with that, but let's not romanticize it.

swiss cottage market was classic last summer for cheap and great corgette flowers with gorgeous mini corgettes still attached. i stopped going to borough because it was way too crowded and i always spent at least £70. i might try going on a friday sometime though.

do you have a secret source of cheap runny cheese suzy?!

Islington Farmer's Market is where the bread stall with my mate is.

so, absolutely classic.

It's good for basic seasonal friut & veg (not organic), but anything else (meat, cheese etc) seems horribly expensive. You can also get fresh fish and a decent loaf of bread on a Sunday, so for that: C

We usually wait for our booze cruises for cheese though.

So it's Ginger pig, the cumbrian farmer with the amazing mutton chops for £1.50 or less, pork pie place down the little alley bit, game and fish bloke on corner, de gustibus and the cheese stall, sometimes the fish place right at the back with the nice carrier bags. Fortunately Vic works near Brindisa's shop and so we don't have to queue there.

I went to the first open to the public Borough market, there were aqbout 4 stalls and Brindisa were around the corner in their warehouse. It was the day (insert name of former manyoo assistant manager who I've forgotten) was sacked by Blackburn iirc

a) We used to visit him at Burley (sp?) when I was at college and it brings up some very very rough mornings after

b) he dresses like a twat

Why does every thread have to degenerate into a series of cheap jibes?

although sometimes the mark-ups (from factory-food to hand-crafted) do seem disproportionate. there's a guy at Ally Pally mkt who sells handmade pasta, canneloni etc - he charges £12 for lasagne!, which ok could perhaps feed two, but still would have to be the best lasagne ever.

try before you buy is a winning policy however.

which is what farmers markets are for, in large part, at least in the US

You can also pay a seasonal fee to a specific farm and get a basket of fresh veggies picked out for you every week.

Fabulous Romanesco cauliflower and yellow peaches from the Santa Monica Farmers Market today. :) My first time trying the cauliflower; absolutely remarkable. Worth the awful experience ordering wood-fired cauliflower from Gjelina. Let me never go to a restaurant with over-salted bar food again. Let me never eat in a restaurant again. Or at least avoid whenever possible except as needed to entertain my parents (dear souls; willing to put up with my completely amateur driving, parallel parking, and parent escorting capabilities). Plus the kind woman who sold us preserves from Frog Hollow Farm. :)

sm farmers' market is great as a tourist spot i feel

i much prefer the hollywood farmers market because it feels bigger and they seem to have more variety though i hardly go to farmers markets these days

also why do restaurants add so much salt in los angeles?

sorry, don't mean to complain because you have a lovely city that is literally improving and transforming right before our eyes