Soulard Farmers Market is a food market in Soulard, St. Louis.
Established in 1779, Soulard is the oldest farmers market west of the Mississippi, a covered year-round hall of produce, meat and spice stalls in south city.
Tip: Go Saturday morning for the fullest stalls and the best haggling. The spice and produce vendors are the heart of it.
Address: 730 Carroll St, St. Louis, MO 63104
A Midtown food hall in a reclaimed foundry, City Foundry gathers about 20 stalls plus a brewery and cinema, the city's biggest food-hall destination.
Tip: Graze across several stalls; the dumpling and taco counters are reliable. City Winery and a cinema share the building.
Held in Tower Grove Park for 20 years, this seasonal market gathers regional farms, bakers and prepared-food stalls on Saturday mornings in the park.
Tip: Come early Saturday and bring a bag; the prepared-food stalls make it a breakfast spot. A Tuesday evening edition runs in summer.
Held Wednesday evenings in the Schlafly Bottleworks lot in Maplewood, this market pairs local produce, meat and cheese vendors with beer-garden music.
Tip: Shop the stalls, then settle into the Schlafly beer garden for music. Bring cash for the smaller vendors.
A Saturday-morning market in Clayton's Straub's lot, this gathers 25 to 30 Missouri and Illinois growers, bakers and makers, the tidy upscale west-end market.
Tip: It is smaller and curated; come for high-quality produce and artisan bakers. Parking is in the Straub's lot.
Founded in 2002, this award-winning Saturday market in downtown Ferguson brings produce picked within a day, plus prepared food and crafts to north county.
Tip: Produce is picked within 24 hours of market day, so go early for the freshest pick and the breakfast stalls.
St. Louis's premier international grocery, Global Foods in Kirkwood stocks fresh, frozen and packaged products from across the globe in one big store.
Tip: It is a grocery rather than a stall market, but unmatched for global ingredients. Allow time to wander the aisles.
