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Borough Market is London's oldest food market. It was established on the south bank of the Thames when the Romans built the first London Bridge. It has occupied its present site for 250 years.

Borough has a long and distinguished history as a wholesale fruit and vegetable market - wholesale trade takes place every night except Saturday from 2am – 8am.


Borough Market is also the country’s most important retail market for fine foods. It is a founding member of Emporion, the European Association of Markets. It is run as a charity by a board of trustees, all of whom live in the Borough.

 

Borough Market is Great Britain’s principal centre of food excellence. The Trustees and Traders of Borough Market believe that everyone has a right to eat well.

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BOROUGH MARKET: LONDON’S BEST MARKET

For the second year running, Borough Market has been voted Best Market in the capital. Its matchless array of specialist foods, and the atmosphere of culinary excellence for which it has become famous, are dear to Londoners’ hearts.

 
On Friday 28th November the Trustees of Borough held a celebration breakfast at Roast restaurant to mark the tenth anniversary of the regenerated retail market. The culinary centrepiece of the event was a scintillating mosaic of glittering cakes created by Gerhard Jenne and Mark Ryan of Konditor & Cook.
 
The Borough Market, London’s specialist food wholesale and retail market, is run as a charity by a board of trustees, supplying a discerning customer base both through retail trade on market days of Thursday, Friday and Saturday and through wholesale trade every night but Saturday. 160 traders come to Borough every week from all over the British Isles and farther afield to supply 4.8m customers per year with high quality produce. 
 
Borough Market has won the following awards:
  • The Evening Standard London's Best Market Award 2007 and 2008
  • The Evening Standard London's Best Shopping Experience Award 2007
  • The NABMA (National Association of British Market Authorities) Best Speciality Market 2008 Award
 
In addition to these awards for the market as a whole, the Good Food Guide has voted Borough Market's Roast restaurant the venue with the 'Best Breakfast in London' and Borough Market's 'The Rake' pub holds the Class Bar Awards 'Best Beer Experience' and the Time Out Best Bar Award.