so many markets, so little time!

we visited two markets last saturday. one is called borough market, located by london bridge. the other is called portobello market, located in notting hill.

borough market
it is london's oldest food market, and has a long and distinguished history as a wholesale fruit and vegetable market. but believe us, this market provides much more than just fruits and vegetables.

once we entered the market, we were greeted with the delicious smells of baked goods and coffee! although we grew quite hungry at the site of so many food options, we wandered through the market, carefully examining the variety of product offerings before we made up our minds on what to try.

the market was also filled with many food samples - chocolate, cheese, wine, sauces, dips and even pâté! it was all so savoury and we wanted to buy it all! of course we didn't. but we are very glad we had the sampling to tide us over until we finally decided what to buy for lunch.

finally, we decided to share a venison burger. for those of you who don't know what venison meat is, it's deer meat. of course, teresa didn't know it was deer meat. she thought venison was something of the buffalo meat variety. once she found out it was deer meat, all she could think of was poor bambi. needless to say, she didn't take another bite of that burger after that image was placed in her head.

for dessert, we bought two pieces of brownies (£2 for one piece, £3 for two pieces. so of course, we had to buy the two pieces - it just made economic sense!) from flour power city bakery. and oh my goodness, they were good brownies!

look at the slabs of brownies! we would SO eat it all =P

SO GOOD!!

portobello market

located on the famous portobello road (location of the famous blue door, travel book store, the garden fence, etc from the film notting hill, staring hugh grant and julia roberts - by the way, we didn't find any of these famous locations from the film and we didn't want to be all touristy and ask =P), the market stretches for about 3.22km. it was uber crowded, of course, it being a saturday afternoon with yet another day of great weather and all.

in the first section of the market, most of the shops were selling antiques. there were antique cutlery, service ware, restroom accessories, frames, display units, etc. antiques are nice to look at (for a little while), but since we don't collect antiques, or have a desire to collect them, we quickly moved past them.

the next section of the market is the food section. everything looked so good! (to all our fellow gourmands, you would love it here!) there were loads of fruit and vegetable stands, baked goods, meat vendors, and many many other food stands!

we saw a few spanish stalls, and they cooked mixed and seafood paella with their very large paella pans right in front of you! it was such a treat to just watch how they cooked it, and what ingredients went into each pan! we'll be sure to try it out next time and report.

the great thing about london is that there are markets everywhere! these are just two of the more famous and popular ones. each market has its own flavour and character, which makes it so much fun to try to explore all of them. keep posted for our head-to-head best brownie ever challenge!