Marché de Wazemmes ★ 4.9
The Wazemmes market fills Place Nouvelle Aventure in Lille three days a week, and on Sunday around 400 stalls turn it into the busiest morning in the city.
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The Wazemmes market fills Place Nouvelle Aventure in Lille three days a week, and on Sunday around 400 stalls turn it into the busiest morning in the city.
The Marché des Lices has run in Rennes since 1622 and now packs close to 300 stallholders onto Place des Lices every Saturday, France's second-largest market.
The beating heart of Cork food culture since 1788. A roofed Victorian trading hall where stalls have been passed down through generations, with Tom.
Galway Saturday Market beside St Nicholas Church is the county food anchor; 130 stalls sell Connacht farmhouse produce, hot food and baked goods weekly.
Riga Central Market sits in five former WWI zeppelin hangars built 1924 to 1930 on the Daugava embankment, one of Europe's largest market complexes.
Eastern Market on Russell Street has hosted the Saturday produce market in Detroit since 1891. The largest historic public market in the country.
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The Dane County Farmers' Market on Capitol Square, the largest producer-only outdoor farmers market in the US, runs Saturdays around the State Capitol.
The Santa Monica Wednesday Farmers Market has filled Arizona Avenue since 1981, with 60-plus California farms supplying half of LA's serious kitchens.
Pike Place Market in Seattle is the 1907 public market on the bluff above Elliott Bay: 200 vendors, the fishmongers tossing salmon, the chowder line.
Marche du Midi in Brussels is the largest Sunday market in Belgium, with over 500 stalls along Gare du Midi. Mediterranean fruit and vegetables, halal meat.
The Ribarnica on Kraj Sv. Marije in Split is the Secession-era fish market open since 1890, the morning Adriatic catch arriving before dawn off Marmontova.
Halles de Lyon-Paul Bocuse in Lyon's 3e is the city's indoor covered market on Cours Lafayette, with around 56 stalls of Lyonnais charcuterie, cheese.
Marche des Capucins in Marseille's 1er Noailles is the daily food market of the Maghrebi quarter, fruit and vegetables, spices, fish and halal butchers.
Marché de Talensac is the grand covered market of Nantes, its hall filled with fishmongers, cheese affineurs and producers six mornings a week.
Nippesser Wochenmarkt at Wilhelmplatz in Cologne's Nippes runs Mon-Fri 07:00-13:00 and Saturday to 14:30; one of the most authentic neighbourhood markets.
Kleinmarkthalle is Frankfurt's covered market of over 60 stalls, where locals queue at Metzgerei Schreiber for hot sausage eaten standing up.
Sheridans Cheesemongers on Churchyard Street Galway is the benchmark for Irish artisan cheese; the market counter sells raw-milk Gubbeen and Cashel Blue.
Rialto Pescheria in Venice's San Polo has run as a fish market since 1097, the neo-Gothic loggia from 1907 where every chef in town shops weekday mornings.
Osaka's kitchen since the Edo period: 580 metres of covered arcade with 180 stalls of live-tank seafood, graded wagyu, Kansai vegetables, standing sushi.
Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo's Chuo ward is the food-stall labyrinth that survived after the wholesale auctions moved to Toyosu in 2018. Peak 07:00-11:00.
Europe's first indoor food market hall with a 40m-high arched ceiling and a giant food mural. Located in Centrum. At Dominee Jan Scharpstraat 298.
Jagalchi Market is Korea's largest fish market, born from Busan's wartime waterfront, where you pick live seafood downstairs and eat it upstairs.
Gwangjang Market, established in 1905, is the oldest continuous daily market in Korea and the city's most essential food destination for visitors.
Mercado Central in Valencia is the 8,000 sqm modernist food market inaugurated in 1928, with 400-plus stalls of fish, produce, meat and one.
Feskekorka (the Fish Church) is Gothenburg's Gothic 1874 fish hall reopened in 2024 after a four-year renovation, housing fishmongers, shellfish counters.
The Spruengli flagship at Paradeplatz, founded 1836 and at 190 years in 2026: Luxemburgerli macarons, Truffes du Jour, the canonical Zurich gift box.
The Downtown Growers' Market at Robinson Park on Eighth Street in Albuquerque runs Saturdays from April to November with 70 vendors, produce.
Ponce City Market in Atlanta opened 2014 inside the 1926 Sears, Roebuck warehouse with 35 plus food stalls including Hop's Chicken, H&F Burger and Root.
Converted 1940s bowling alley with a produce floor stocking 700+ fruit and vegetable varieties. Bulk bins, cheese counter and fish counter all exceptional.
The Farmers Market at Pepper Place on 2nd Avenue South Birmingham runs more than 120 Alabama farm vendors every Saturday morning, the city's anchor market.
Findlay Market on Race Street in Cincinnati's OTR is the 1855 public market, the oldest continuously operating market in Ohio, with 40-plus vendors.
The West Side Market on West 25th Street since 1912, the Hubbel and Benes-designed yellow-brick public market dedicated by Mayor Newton Baker.
The Source in Denver is the RiNo market hall in a former iron foundry, with Babette Bakery, Crooked Stave and Acorn restaurant, plus a 100-room hotel above.
Urban Harvest Saturday Farmers Market in Houston is the Saturday 8am-noon market at the St. John's School parking lot on Buffalo Speedway, with 100+ vendors.
City Market on East 5th in Kansas City's River Market has been the riverfront food hub since 1857, with the region's biggest farmers market on Saturday.
Market Square Farmers Market on the central downtown plaza, the 23-season Nourish Knoxville market with 140+ vendors, runs Wednesdays and Saturdays through.
Santa Monica Farmers Market is where every Westside chef shops on Wednesdays. Weiser Family Farms, Romeo Coleman and Harry's Berries hold the famous stalls.
Fondy Farmers Market on West Fond du Lac Avenue, the largest farmers market in Wisconsin since 1917, runs 70+ vendors including a deep Hmong grower.
Grand Lake's Saturday farmers market by Lake Merritt is among the largest in California. Organic produce, dim sum, pastries and prepared goods.
East End Market on Corrine Drive in Audubon Park is the two-story selected food hall with Domu ramen, Lineage Coffee, Gideon's Bakehouse and a dozen vendors.
Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia is the 1893 enclosed public market under the old Reading Railroad train shed at 12th and Arch, with 80 vendors.
Portland Farmers' Market at Deering Oaks Park is the anchor Saturday market, outdoor April through November and indoors at Stevens Square through winter.
The Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park, the city's anchor producer market, runs Saturdays from June through October with 300+ vendors from 16 Utah.
Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco is the Saturday-morning institution at the foot of Market Street, with 100 vendors, Hog Island oysters.
The Downtown SLO Farmers' Market closes five blocks of Higuera Street every Thursday night, stacking barbecue pits, produce and bands since 1983.
150 growers within a 15-county Northern New Mexico zone fill the Saturday Pavilion at the Railyard; 100% of the produce is grown in-state, market running.
SWAIA's market draws 1,000-plus Native artists from 200 Tribal Nations to the Santa Fe Plaza each August (since 1922); food vendors run frybread and corn.
Bay Cities Italian Deli, family-owned since 1925, bakes and stacks the Godmother on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica behind hour-long lunchtime queues.
Queen Victoria Market is Melbourne's most visited food destination: heritage sheds, a produce hall, a deli section and a Wednesday summer night market.
Saturday farmers market in the Eveleigh rail yards, Sydney. About 40 stalls from NSW farmers, where the city's top chefs source their produce.
The Naschmarkt on Wienzeile in Vienna's 6th district is the city's largest food market, around 120 stalls and small kitchens running six days a week.
Marche du Chatelain in Brussels' Ixelles runs every Wednesday afternoon on Place du Chatelain. Belgian producers, bread, charcuterie, oyster bars.
Tierenteyn-Verlent has been making mustard at Groentenmarkt 3 since 1790: the barrel-drawn Ghent mustard is the city's most well-known culinary product.
Pijaca Markale on Mula Mustafe Baseskije is Sarajevo's anchor since 1895, with Austrian steel girders, daily produce and a memorial to the 1994-95 massacres.
Mercado Municipal de São Paulo, the Mercadão, has traded since 1933 in Centro under a stained-glass roof, with roughly 290 food and produce boxes today.
Jean-Talon Market is Montreal's largest public market, a Little Italy sprawl of Quebec produce, cheese counters, fishmongers and prepared-food stalls.
St Lawrence Market on Front Street East has been Toronto's main food market since 1803, the South Building daily and the rebuilt North Building Saturday.
Granville Island Public Market under the Granville Bridge since 1979 is Vancouver's reference indoor food hall, 50+ vendors, BC seafood and produce daily.
Pazar runs daily on Hrvojeva along the east wall of Split's Diocletian Palace, the open-air green market for fruit, vegetables, olive oil and Dalmatia cheese.
Les Halles d'Avignon is the covered market on Place Pie, with about 40 traders beneath Patrick Blanc's vertical garden, open Tuesday to Sunday mornings.
Marche des Capucins in Bordeaux's Saint-Michel is the producer-driven covered market on Place des Capucins, with around 80 stalls covering oysters.
The Marché des Arceaux lines Montpellier's Saint-Clément aqueduct on Tuesday and Saturday, up to 80 producers selling organic vegetables, cheese and flowers.
The Marche du Cours Saleya runs Tuesday to Sunday in Vieux Nice under the palm trees, the city's headline flower and Provence produce market a few steps.
Marché d'Aligre in Paris's 12e arrondissement runs the city's most editorially-loved open-air market and covered hall six mornings a week from Tuesday.
Les Halles du Boulingrin is the covered market of Reims, opened in 1929 under a thin concrete vault, trading on Friday mornings and on Saturday until 14:00.
Marche Victor Hugo on Place Victor Hugo is Toulouse's belly market, with butchers, cheese and produce stalls downstairs and seven family bistros on the first.
Markthalle Neun in Kreuzberg, restored from an 1891 iron-and-glass market hall, anchors Berlin's food scene with Friday and Saturday produce markets.
Wochenmarkt an St Aposteln at Apostelnkloster near Cologne's Neumarkt runs Tuesday and Friday 07:00-13:00 with organic produce and fresh seasonal vegetables.
Fischmarkt Altona on Grosse Elbstrasse in Hamburg has run every Sunday morning since 1703 and is the city's defining harbour market, with 70,000 weekly.
Viktualienmarkt in Munich's Altstadt is the city's central daily food market since 1807; 100+ stalls of produce, butchers, fish, flowers, plus.
Varvakios on Athinas in Athens is the city's central food market, built in 1886 with a fish hall, a meat hall and the spice and olive stalls.
The Agora on 1866 Street is the spine of food shopping in Heraklion, a narrow run of cheese, herb, rusk and butcher stalls between two squares.
Khari Baoli Spice Market has traded whole spices, dried fruit and tea at Chandni Chowk's west end since the 17th century, still Delhi's largest spice market.
Mohammed Ali Road is Mumbai's Muslim food street: kebab stalls, sheermal bakers, biryani houses and the Bohri community kitchens. Editor's TableJourney pick.
McCambridges on Shop Street Galway is the city deli with the widest Irish artisan range; the cheese counter, smoked fish and baked goods are best-in-class.
Pignasecca in Naples' Montesanto district is the city's oldest street market (operating since the 17th century), a chaotic grid of fish stalls.
Mercato di Ballaro in Palermo's Albergheria quarter has run since the 10th-century Arab era, extending from Piazza Ballaro along Via Albergheria to Corso.
Porta Palazzo in Turin's Aurora is the largest open-air food market in Europe. 800 stalls of fish, fresh produce, cheese and Maghrebi pantry, closed Sundays.
Yanagibashi Rengo Ichiba opened in 1916 and has been the Kitchen of Hakata ever since. 70 stalls on a 120m arcade, Genkai Sea seafood and mentaiko.
The kitchen of Kyoto: four covered blocks east-west on Nishikikoji-dori, 130 stalls of pickles, tofu, tea, fish, and the wagashi the city's tea houses use.
Kappabashi-dori in Tokyo's Asakusa is the 800-metre Kitchenware Town with 170 specialist shops. Carbon knives, ceramic ware, lacquer and sample food.
Kalnciema Quarter runs every Saturday in the wooden-house Āgenskalns neighbourhood across the Daugava, anchoring the city's Slow Food farmers' weekend.
Mercado 20 de Noviembre is Oaxaca's covered food market with the Pasillo de Humo grill alley of tasajo, cecina enchilada and chorizo over wood coals daily.
Marrakech's Jemaa el-Fna is UNESCO-listed for its oral storytelling tradition; from 18:00 the square transforms into the city's biggest open-air food market.
A converted warehouse on the Katendrecht waterfront housing Rotterdam's finest artisan producers, Kaapse Brouwers beer, Stielman coffee. At Veerlaan 19.
Mercado N1 de Surquillo at Av Paseo de la Republica and Narciso de la Colina is Lima's destination market for ceviche stalls and the freshest Pacific fish.
The pastry counter at Frigideiras do Cantinho is the best address for Braga's rarest conventual sweets: frigideiras, tíbias and sameirinhos since 1796.
Kalenic Market in Vracar opened on the Kalenic threshing floor in 1926, Belgrade's largest open-air market. 839 stalls passed across generations.
Stara Trznica on Namestie SNP 25 is the first covered market in Bratislava (1910), Saturday farmer market plus events and a cooking school in the gallery.
The main Ljubljana market, designed by Joze Plecnik between 1931 and 1944. Outdoor stalls on Vodnikov trg and Pogacarjev trg, plus the riverside covered.
Noryangjin is Seoul's wholesale fish market and its most dramatic food experience: buy live seafood at the auction, take it upstairs to be cooked on the spot.
Mercat de l'Olivar is Palma's main covered market off Plaça d'Espanya, with fish, meat and produce below and a gastronomic floor of bars above.
Stora Saluhallen is Gothenburg's grand 19th-century indoor market at Kungstorget, housing over 40 traders selling West Coast seafood, Swedish charcuterie.
Östermalms Saluhall on Östermalmstorg in Stockholm reopened in 2020 in the restored 1888 hall; 18 vendors, sit-down counters at Lisa Elmqvist and Tysta Mari.
Almacı Pazarı has traded in central Gaziantep for around 250 years, and its stalls still carry the isot, pekmez, dried aubergine and green pistachio.
Kadıköy Çarşısı, the Asian-side produce maze threaded through Güneşlibahçe Sokak, the city's most concentrated food market with Aegean fish.
St Nicholas Market has traded under the Exchange since 1743 and now packs Bristol's densest lunch mile into its Glass Arcade and covered halls.
Stockbridge Market on Saunders Street in Edinburgh, trading every Sunday since 2011, the city's flagship Sunday food market with 50 rotating food and coffee.
Valvona and Crolla deli on Elm Row in Edinburgh, opened in 1934 by Alfonso Valvona and Raffaele Crolla, Scotland's longest-running Italian deli and wine shop.
Borough Market on Southwark Street in London, trading since the 1750s, runs over 100 produce, fish, cheese, charcuterie and prepared-food stalls.
Manchester's restored 1857 Smithfield Market hall, reopened 2017. Twelve vendors including Honest Crust pizza, Tender Cow burgers and Reserve wine bar.
Asheville City Market is the downtown ASAP-run Saturday farmers' market, year-round on North Market Street between Woodfin and Walnut streets. Editor pick.
North Asheville Tailgate Market at UNC Asheville Lot P34 is the city's main Saturday-morning farmers and craftspeople market, April through November.
Krog Street Market in Inman Park, Atlanta opened 2014 in a converted Tyler Perry warehouse near the Beltline. Open daily 11:00-22:00. At 99 Krog St NE.
Family-owned produce market on Hopkins Street since 1958. East Bay chefs including Chez Panisse source here. California seasonal varieties at lower prices.
Ecology Center Saturday market on Center Street. Sixty-plus certified California farmers, food vendors and artisan producers year-round every Saturday.
Retail window at Acme's San Pablo production bakery. Levain, sourdough baguette and walnut bread sell until stock runs out, usually by early afternoon.
Saturday flagship moved from City Hall Park to 345 Pine Street in the South End for the 2024 season. 80-plus farmers, prepared-food vendors and craft stalls.
North Market on Spruce Street in Columbus downtown is the anchor city food hall since 1876, with Jeni's, Hoyo's, Pistacia Vera and 30 plus vendors.
Old South Pearl Farmers Market in Denver is the Sunday Platt Park farmers market on Pearl Street, a 70-vendor neighborhood market running May to November.
Iowa's largest farmers market, running every Saturday morning from May through October across 12 city blocks of the Historic Court District.
The KCC Farmers Market on the Kapiolani Community College grounds in Diamond Head Honolulu is the canonical Saturday produce stop, run by the Hawaii Farm.
5 Brothers Grocery is Key West's 1978 corner store at Southard and Grinnell, stocking groceries and wine behind the con leche and sandwich counter.
Grand Central Market on Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles has run since 1917 and hosts 39 vendors. Eggslut, Sticky Rice, Wexler's Deli and G&B Coffee anchor it.
Milwaukee Public Market on North Water Street in the Third Ward, opened in 2005, houses 20 vendors including Thief Wine, West Allis Cheese and St Paul Fish.
Glorioso's Italian Market on East Brady Street has been a Brady Street Italian grocery since 1946, with imported pastas, salumi, cheeses, prepared deli.
Mill City Farmers Market in the Mill District has run Saturday farmers' stalls in Minneapolis since 2006. Below the Stone Arch Bridge by the river.
Union Square Greenmarket has anchored Manhattan greenmarket shopping in New York City since 1976. Open mon, wed, fri, sat 08:00-18:00. At Union Square Park.
The Old Oakland farmers market runs Fridays year-round on 9th Street at Broadway. Bay Area growers, prepared lunch counters and the busiest downtown stop.
South 9th Street Italian Market in Philadelphia is the open-air immigrant produce-and-deli strip on 9th from Fitzwater to Wharton, the oldest working outdoor.
Portland's largest farmers market on the South Park Blocks at PSU, with 150+ vendors year-round, mushroom foragers, Tillamook cheese and Willamette berries.
Harbor Fish Market on Custom House Wharf has been the Portland working waterfront's retail fish counter since 1969, with lobster, fresh-cut fish and oysters.
The Hope Street Farmers Market is a farmer-run cooperative at Lippitt Park, Hope Street and Blackstone Boulevard. Vegetables, breads, cheese, meats.
Midtown Farmers Market on 20th Street, midtown Sacramento, runs Saturday year-round with 200-plus vendors, ranked top California by American Farmland Trust.
Davis Farmers Market at Central Park in Davis, twenty minutes west of Sacramento, is the 50-year-old California heritage Saturday day-trip market.
Little Italy Mercato on Date Street, San Diego's largest farmers market, six blocks of California farmers, bread, fishmongers and hot-food stalls.
The Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco runs daily inside the 1898 Ferry Building, with Hog Island Oyster Co., Cowgirl Creamery, Acme Bread.
Forsyth Farmers' Market runs Saturdays 09:00-13:00 at the south end of Forsyth Park, with 65-plus growers within 150 miles: produce, eggs, honey, meat, bread.
Ballard Farmers Market in Seattle is the Sunday-only producers-only market on Ballard Avenue: 70 stalls, Washington produce exclusively, the city's most.
Wat Mongkolratanaram runs a Thai Buddhist temple market every Sunday from 9am to 1pm, with food cooked by volunteers under live oak trees on the Palm River.
Heirloom Farmers Market at Rillito Park in Tucson is the city's largest year-round Sunday market, with 70-plus farmers, ranchers and food sellers.
Eastern Market in Washington DC is the Capitol Hill 7th Street brick market hall since 1873, with the South Hall butchers, fishmongers and bakers plus.
Brisbane's original farmers market, established by Jan Power in the 1990s. Paddock-to-plate stalls run Saturdays at the Powerhouse riverfront.
South Melbourne Market has been the suburb's food anchor since 1867: independent stallholders, fresh produce, the original dim sim stall and a Saturday crowd.
Footscray Market on Hopkins Street is Melbourne's best multicultural food market: Vietnamese grocers, African spice traders and Phuoc Thanh banh mi inside.
Sydney Fish Market on Bank Street, Pyrmont. The new building opened January 2026; auctions before dawn, retail and takeaway from 7am daily till 4pm.
Bauernmarkt Freyung is Europe's oldest exclusively organic farmers' market, the Friday and Saturday Freyung-square stalls drawing regional Austrian producers.
Bascarsija's food row in Sarajevo on Bravadziluk and Kazandziluk is the working food counter for the Ottoman bazaar quarter, cevapi, burek and sweets to go.
Kensington Market between Spadina and Bathurst is Toronto's reference open-air food district, vendor storefronts along Augusta, Baldwin and Kensington Avenue.
Sapa, on Prague's southern edge, is the largest Vietnamese market outside Vietnam. A warehouse complex with around 200 vendors, plus the city's best banh mi.
Torvehallerne on Frederiksborggade by Nørreport opened 2011 as Copenhagen's reference food hall: two steel and glass halls, 60 vendors, Hija de Sanchez.
Balti Jaama Turg next to the Baltic rail station runs nearly 300 vendors across three floors, with produce, fish and street-food downstairs, design upstairs.
The Old Market Hall by the South Harbour opened in 1889 as Helsinki's first indoor hall; stalls sell smoked fish, reindeer, cheeses and salmon soup.
Marche des Quais in Bordeaux's Chartrons is the Sunday-only producer market along Quai des Chartrons, with around 70 stalls between Hangars 14.
Les Halles de Dijon fills an 1873 Eiffel-style iron hall on Rue Quentin, cheese, fish and butcher stalls trading Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The Halles de Wazemmes in Lille hold 25 permanent traders under one roof, butchers, cheesemongers and fishmongers alongside Asian and Middle Eastern counters.
Marche de la Croix-Rousse runs daily down Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon's 4e: 100 producer stalls of seasonal vegetables, cheese, charcuterie.
Marche aux Poissons in Marseille's 1er on the Quai de la Fraternite is the city's last working fish market, around ten stalls each morning selling whatever.
Halles Laissac packs 24 traders under a rebuilt rotunda on Place Alexandre Laissac in Montpellier, oyster and tielle counters pouring wine into the evening.
Wochenmarkt Deutz at Deutzer Freiheit runs every Friday 07:00-13:00 with regional produce, bread stalls and Reibekuchen from local vendors a short walk.
Isemarkt under the U3 viaduct on Isestrasse in Hamburg's Eppendorf and Harvestehude is Germany's largest weekly market by length, running 600 metres.
Kallidromiou in Exarchia is the Saturday farmers' market that Athens runs, on the FT World's Best list, a Strefi-Hill-edge street market with seasonal fruit.
Kapani is Thessaloniki's oldest surviving market, trading since the Ottoman period. At Egnatia 52. Booking recommended. Reservations advised.
Sassoon Dock is Mumbai's oldest wet dock (1875) and the Koli community's primary morning fish landing; pomfret, bombil, prawn and crab off the boats.
Considered the best market in West Cork and one of the finest in Ireland, operating every Saturday 09:30-13:30 in The Fairfield. Gubbeen Farm, Woodside.
Connemara Smokehouse in Ballyconneely Galway supplies the city market circuit with cold-smoked Atlantic salmon and eel, produced on the Connemara coast.
Savour Kilkenny Market brings 100 artisan food vendors to The Parade each October Bank Holiday, one of Ireland's biggest and longest-running food festivals.
Carmel Market on HaCarmel Street in Tel Aviv is the city's largest market, stretching from Magen David Square through spice, fish and produce stalls.
The Sella & Mosca estate at I Piani near Alghero runs cellar visits on weekdays by booking, plus a museum on the Anghelu Ruju necropolis. TableJourney pick.
Cagliari's biggest civic market trades from a temporary hall on Piazza Nazzari, some 170 stalls of fish, produce, cheese, bread and cured meat.
Mercato Centrale in Florence's San Lorenzo is the city's main covered market in a 1874 cast-iron Giuseppe Mengoni building, with butcher and produce stalls.
Mercato Sant'Ambrogio in Florence's eastern quarter is the second covered market, a 1873 cast-iron building, with produce stalls, the Trattoria da Rocco.
Mercato Albinelli, Modena's 1931 covered market, gathers meat, cheese and produce stalls around a fountain named a national monument in 1990.
Porta Nolana fish market in Naples has sold fresh catch from the Bay of Naples since the 15th century, the city's principal wholesale and retail seafood.
Mercato di Testaccio in Rome's Testaccio district is the 1907-founded covered market (moved to the new building 2012), with 100 stalls, plus Mordi e Vai.
Mercato di Rialto in Venice's San Polo near the Pescheria is the fruit and vegetable market, with Sant'Erasmo castraure artichokes from late April and white.
The Time Out Market food hall inside Grand Green Osaka brings 11 selected Osaka restaurant concepts under one roof: takoyaki, kaiseki, sushi, craft beer.
Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo's Koto ward replaced Tsukiji's wholesale auctions in 2018. Visitor decks above the tuna trade plus sushi and seafood restaurants.
Mercado de San Juan in Mexico City is the gourmet specialty market on Ernesto Pugibet in Centro Historico, the city's only such market with exotic meats.
Mercado Benito Juarez opened in 1894 one block from the Zocalo, with chapulines on Miguel Cabrera, mole pastes and the chocolate rows facing 20 de Noviembre.
Mercado de Sabores Poblanos gathers its comedores over two floors in Puebla, cooking mole, chalupas, cemitas, pipian and tamales de tlanipa daily.
Albert Cuypmarkt in De Pijp is the largest outdoor market in the Netherlands, 260-plus stalls stretching a kilometre, the Amsterdam street market most days.
Noordermarkt on the Jordaan square outside Noorderkerk is the Amsterdam Saturday organic farmers market, oysters, sourdough, raw-milk cheese.
Utrecht's organic farmers market on Vredenburgplein every Friday. Local farmers sell cheese, organic produce, bread, juices, meat and sustainable fish.
La Cigale at 69 St Georges Bay Road in Parnell, Auckland runs Saturday and Sunday morning French-inspired markets. Cheese, charcuterie, pastry, hot food.
Mathallen Oslo on Vulkan opened in 2012 as the city's permanent food hall, with 30 producer-led stalls, the Hitchhiker and Fenaknoken counters.
Mercado Pesquero Artesanal at Caleta de Chorrillos is the Lima artisanal fish market beside the Club Regatas, fresh Pacific fish lands 07:00 and 16:00 daily.
Stary Kleparz, just north of Kraków's Old Town walls, has run as a food market since the mid-14th century. 200+ stalls: Polish produce, smoked meats.
A historic specialty grocery in continuous operation since 1894, described by Braga Cool as the cod mecca of the city. The shelves carry premium Portuguese.
Mercado dos Lavradores opened in Funchal in 1940 to Edmundo Tavares's design, tiled front, fish hall downstairs and tropical fruit upstairs.
Piața Obor on Ziduri Moși is the largest open-air market in Bucharest, with the mici terrace inside the complex serving plates locals rate as the city's best.
The smaller cathedral-side square in the Plecnik market triangle, with outdoor produce six days a week and Odprta kuhna's Friday food event in season.
Oranjezicht City Farm Market gathers over 80 artisanal food traders at the V&A Waterfront every weekend in Cape Town, plus a Wednesday night market.
Gukje Market grew out of postwar Busan and still runs as a maze of stalls, its food alleys ladling bibim dangmyeon, yubu pockets and chungmu gimbap.
Mercat de la Boqueria off Barcelona's Rambla has run since 1840, with 200+ stalls, four counter bars, and a daily fish-and-fruit grid that still feeds.
Mercado de la Ribera in Bilbao, built 1929 by Pedro Ispizua, was named Europe's largest covered food market by Guinness in 1990 at 10,000 sqm.
El Rastro on Calle Ribera de Curtidores in Madrid is the centuries-old Sunday flea market with 1000 stalls plus the parallel vermut and tapas crawl.
Mercado Central de Atarazanas is Málaga's grand 19th-century market behind a Moorish gate, its stalls piled with the bay's fish and Andalusian produce.
Mercat de Santa Catalina is Palma's best-known food market, a hall in the old fishing district where produce stalls sit beside wine and tapas counters.
Mercado de Colon in Valencia's Eixample is the 1916 modernist food-hall market, now a gastronomic-and-leisure space with horchaterias, wine bars and casual.
Liseberg's Julmarknad is one of Northern Europe's largest Christmas markets, with over 80 wooden stalls inside the amusement park selling glogg.
Under the Zurich-West rail-arch viaduct: fresh local produce, cheese, charcuterie, takeaway food stalls, an open-kitchen Mediterranean restaurant.
Raohe Night Market in Taipei is the 600-metre Songshan strip running between Songshan Ciyou Temple and Bade Road, anchored by Fuzhou Shihzu Baked Pepper Buns.
Yongle Market and Dihua Street in Datong is Taipei's oldest dried-goods district, Qing dynasty roots, with mushrooms, herbs and Lunar New Year goods.
Or Tor Kor in Bangkok's Chatuchak is the Marketing Organisation for Farmers' agricultural showcase, the cleanest food market in the city since 1982.
Elmacı Pazarı is the biggest food market in Gaziantep, a spice and nut bazaar named for the apple trade that once filled these lanes off Karatarla.
Cargo stacks about 45 independents into converted shipping containers at Wapping Wharf, Bristol's harbourside village of counters, taprooms and kitchens.
Edinburgh Farmers Market on Castle Terrace in Edinburgh, trading every Saturday since 2000 under Edinburgh Castle's south wall, the city's reference Saturday.
Maltby Street market on Ropewalk in Bermondsey London, traders since 2010 in railway arches between Tower Bridge and London Bridge, runs Saturday-Sunday only.
Broadway Market between London Fields and Regent's Canal in Hackney London, trading since 1890 and revived in 2004 by the residents, runs Saturday-only.
Greater Manchester's pioneering food market hall in Altrincham, model for the city's later halls. Eighteen traders, communal seating, the kids' shift is loud.
Lancashire's most famous market, seven miles north of Manchester. Three hundred stalls, the original Bury Black Pudding Co stand, pies and Lancashire cheese.
Rail Yards Market in the 1914 Santa Fe Locomotive Shops on First Street SW in Albuquerque runs Sundays May through October, with 90 vendors and live music.