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Is This The Future For Camden Market Fire Site?

Browsing through the skyscrapercity forums, we came across this vision for Camden Market from MAKE architects. The scheme would replace the fire-ravaged buildings still occupying the site of the 2008 conflagration. The plans will be controversial. Anywhere else, this would be a fairly jolly example …

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Review: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market

Londonist made it over to the Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market (read our preview here) this afternoon and we were generally pleased with our experience. In particular, we liked all the free samples available (sausages, omlettes, chocolates, spirits, cocktails and more) and were …

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Preview: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market

This Thursday the 2nd at Cardinal Place off Victoria Street, the Royal Warrant Holders Association’s will hold its first ever specialty food and drink market, providing market-goers with the chance to “eat like a Queen” and sample a wide selection of quality products supplied to …

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The Saturday Strangeness

100. The old ones are the best… And so we’ve reached episode 100. It’s been a rewarding ride through the surreal, the quirky, the weird and the downright scary. Everyone loves a mystery, but they just don’t happen like they used to! And so, to …

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Greenwich Village Market Closing This Weekend

Image by D I C K S D A I L Y from the Londonist Flickr pool Weep, market lovers, for the passing of the Greenwich Village Market. No, not the covered market by the Cutty Sark; the quirky, larger market that had vintage clothes …

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Reviews Revisited: Luardo’s Mexican Street Food

Back in July 2007 (yes way back then) we happened upon upstart Mexican street food vendor, Luardo’s, at the then rather puny Whitecross Street Market. Our review was positive, if not glowing. Anyway, we’ve been back recently (had the beef in chipotle sauce burrito) and …

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Demolition Threat To Shepherd’s Bush Market

Image by karin Bultje According to the Dickensian-named Andrew Slaughter, local MP, Shepherd’s Bush Market could be bulldozed as part of a project to raze the site and raise in its place a luxury housing project. The market, where you can famously pick up “TV’s, …

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Win: Market EC1 Guestlist

Getting people out on Sunday is no easy mission. If your hangover isn’t bad enough from Saturday night, then there’s the small matter of work on a Monday morning to content with. Never one to take the obvious as a stopping point though, Fabric are …

Food-ography: Game

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Metric Martyr Walks Free

Ridley Road Market’s metrically-challenged patrons can breathe a sigh of relief: one of its fruit and veg sellers has avoided incarceration for using imperial scales, after she was given a conditional discharge for breaking the Weights and Measures act. Janet Devers, 64, had been making …

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Camden Market Fire Starter

Six months ago we were on the scene as a major fire swept through Canal Market in Camden destroying market stalls and severely damaging the infamous Hawley Arms. It took 100 firefighters 6 hours to bring the blaze under control but it turns out, the …