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London food hot spot: Borough Market
National World - LocalTV
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21/02/2025
We take a tour around borough Market to find out why this place is always so buzzing.
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London's Borough Market, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the
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capital and also a hotspot for locals working nearby to grab some lunch. When
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you enter the Borough Market from the London Bridge station side, you're
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greeted by almost artisanal stores from bagel shops to sweet stands selling all
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kinds of licorice. It's difficult to get past all the amazing looking pastries
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and looking at all the amazing kinds of fudge on offer, but all these stands
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don't even scratch the surface of what's on offer in Borough Market. As you
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venture deeper into London's version of a bizarre market, it's a sensory overload.
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Everywhere you look you see different food stands, the aromas are almost
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overwhelming. One of the first places you see is the world-famous fish and chip
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stall, an award-winning stand selling a British staple. Definitely more popular
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with people on holiday, but opposite is a new stall taking the market by storm
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selling mushroom risotto. The mushrooms are cooked in a large skillet and slowly
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added to another huge pan filled with risotto. It really did look incredible.
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Talking of big skillets, a little further in is the ever-popular paella stand.
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Huge batches of sweet crusty rice are being cooked and queues down an entire
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row for this one. It's definitely one of the most in-demand dishes in the
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market. But back next to the mushroom risotto is a bakery and the doughnuts
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here are supposed to be the thing to try, so I had to. There really were just too
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many choices from creme brulee doughnuts to Nutella, but I decided to try a lemon
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curd doughnut. An underrated flavour in my opinion and it was amazing. The bread
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was really light, the curd was sweet and sharp. It was definitely spot-on. I'd
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recommend it. But coming out the other side of Borough Market you see fruit
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stands, veg stands, salt beef sandwiches and butcher shops. But as you follow the
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windy paths outside, you approach the iconic seating stand. Out here is where
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the savoury options come into their own, with anything from Iraqi dishes to small
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plates of Japanese food like gyozas and ramen. There's also Indian street food, a
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Tel Aviv market and sandwich shops. This particular stall is a big favourite for
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Londoners on their lunch breaks. Borough Market is a staple of London's culture,
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so much so that records of the site date back to around the 12th century and over
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800 years later it's still going strong. But up until a few decades ago it was
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purely a wholesaler's market and these days it's open to the public. There you
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have it, London's most famous spot when it comes to food, Borough Market. And we'll
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be exploring some of the capital's most iconic spots right here on London News.
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