Markets & Food Destinations

Royal charters granted centuries ago still dictate where and when hundreds of British...

Falmouth's Oyster Festival marks the opening of Europe's last sail-and-oar dredging...

Speyside's spring whisky festival opens still houses, warehouses and cooperages for a...

What to expect at CAMRA's national beer festival – cask ale by gravity, third-pint...

Bakewell's Monday market is one of Derbyshire's oldest – a working agricultural gathering...

Totnes punches above its size for independent food shops, markets and producers. Here's...

One of Britain's largest regular farmers' markets, Winchester draws producers from across...

How Stockport's Victorian Produce Hall and its Foodie Friday street-food event became one...

Chester has held a market since medieval times. Here's what makes the current Northgate...

How Victorian market halls emptied, then refilled with independent kitchens, communal...

Those gold stars on farm shop jars signal something real — but only if you know what the...

Held in Melton Mowbray's parish church each spring, the British Pie Awards settle a...

Nantwich hosts one of the world's largest cheese competitions. Here's how the judging...

Oxford's Covered Market has traded from the same Georgian building for centuries. Here's...

Broadway Market in Hackney runs between London Fields and the Regent's Canal. Here's what...

How a tiny Cumbrian village became one of Britain's most unlikely food destinations...

New Alresford in Hampshire hosts Britain's biggest celebration of watercress each May...

Whitstable's oyster festival draws crowds to the Kent coast every late July. Here's what...

The Isle of Wight Garlic Festival is one of England's most distinctive food events...

How Liverpool's post-industrial Baltic Triangle became the city's independent food...

Tavistock's Victorian market hall has traded under one of England's oldest charters...

From a 12th-century charter to cockles and catfish side by side: why the Bull Ring...

A 1960s concrete hall in Tudor Shrewsbury that's been repeatedly voted among Britain's...

One of England's oldest and largest open-air markets has traded below Norwich Castle for...

The Royal Welsh Show's Food Hall is the best single roof for Welsh producers in Britain...

Bristol's St Nicholas Market has traded since the 18th century. Here's what makes it one...

Edinburgh's Stockbridge Market runs every Sunday in Jubilee Gardens — compact...

A Victorian meat market turned food hall in Manchester's Northern Quarter: what to expect...

Ireland's oldest fair brings two singular foods to Ballycastle each August: dried purple...

From Birmingham's German traders to Bath's Abbey stalls, a clear-eyed guide to Britain's...

Every Spring Bank Holiday Monday, a Double Gloucester is sent down a near-vertical...

Built in the 1830s as part of Newcastle's neoclassical remaking, Grainger Market still...

Castle Terrace's Saturday market is one of Scotland's longest-running farmers' markets —...

From Belfast's St George's Market to the Causeway Coast's seasonal stalls, here's where...

From Edinburgh's Stockbridge to island producers' stalls, here are Scotland's farmers'...

From Cardiff's Victorian market halls to the farmers' markets of west Wales, here's where...

From Norwich's painted-roof stalls to Cambridge's daily market, here are the East of...

From Birmingham's markets quarter to Melton Mowbray's charter town, these are the...

From Newcastle's grand Victorian Grainger Market to Tynemouth Station's weekend stalls...

England's biggest agricultural show hosts food halls that double as a serious showcase...

Meatopia brings Britain's best live-fire cooking to London each late summer. Here's what...

The Big Feastival brings together serious food and live music on a Cotswolds farm each...

Porthleven's harbourside food festival brings together Cornish producers and chef...

A volunteer-run October festival in Devon's Dartmouth, known for serious tastings...

York's September food festival brings Yorkshire producers into the heart of a medieval...

Suffolk's coastal food festival brings East Anglian producers together at Snape Maltings...

The Frome Independent transforms a Somerset town centre into a monthly maker's market...

Swansea Market is Wales's largest indoor market and the best place to find Penclawdd...

How two covered arcades in South London became a defining food destination, where...

Greenwich Market sits at the heart of a World Heritage site, mixing independent makers...

From Bath's farmers' market to Falmouth's harbourside stalls, the South West has...

From Winchester's celebrated farmers' market to the producers' stalls of Sussex and Kent...

From Leeds's Kirkgate to Malton's monthly gathering, these are the Yorkshire food markets...

From Bury's black pudding stalls to Liverpool's Baltic Market, the North West leads...

A few simple habits transform a farmers' market visit from a pleasant wander into...

Melton Mowbray's markets, pork pie bakeries and artisan cheese fair make it one of...

Malton calls itself Yorkshire's food capital, and the monthly market and annual festival...

Wales's flagship food festival takes over a market town every September with producers...

From harbour-fresh fish to proper Cornish pasties, here's how to get the most from...

Stroud's Saturday farmers' market is one of Britain's finest producers' markets. Here's...

Bath's Saturday market at Green Park Station is widely recognised as the UK's first...

Cardiff's Victorian covered market brings Welsh cakes, cockles, laverbread and...

Belfast's Victorian covered market is one of Britain's finest, with Friday fish trading...

Leeds Kirkgate Market is one of the largest covered markets in Europe — and the...

Bury Market is one of the North's great traditional markets — and its black pudding...

Maltby Street Market runs through Victorian railway arches in Bermondsey — smaller and...

From spring harbour festivals to the great September cluster and winter markets, here's...

From Borough to Brockley, a guide to London's most characterful farmers' markets — what...

Not every outdoor market is a farmers' market. Here's what the real thing looks like, and...

Ludlow's September food festival is credited as Britain's first modern food festival. But...

How Altrincham Market's food-hall revival — communal tables, resident indie kitchens...

London's most celebrated food market sits beside London Bridge with roughly a thousand...