Since having a baby, we have found ourselves getting up and about much earlier than we would often wish to, especially on a Saturday morning. Sometimes we try to ignore this fact and insist on trying to get the extra sleep, although these attempts are usually futile. Other days we decide on being more constructive. Today was one of them. We thought we would give Maltby Street Market a go (a market that has been offering a home to some of the stalls that Borough Market has decided to evict). It also shares some of the shops/stalls as Borough Market, but in a much less chaotic or touristy environment (we tried Borough Market once with the little one in the sling and I spent the whole time trying to protect her from people bumping into us!).
One of the places they share with Borough Market is Monmouth Coffee. The coffee there is always of a decent quality, but I do feel they have become a bit of a victim of their own success: the coffee making is often rushed and lacks in depth of flavour and any hints of treacly or caramel notes, that good coffee often has. In any case, it is not bad and the environment they offer is friendly with interesting interiors.
Maltby Street Market is based around Maltby Street (obviously) in Bermondsey. It is fairly spread out and you need to know what you are looking for and where to go for it, but it is all part of the fun and adds to the sense of adventure - I need to spend more time out, don't I? Plenty of great places for cheese, veg, coffee, bread and meat are to be found! For us the most exciting bit of the market is the St. John's bakery. They bake all their produce there on site and it looks and taste scrumptious! They sell brownies, their famous eccles cakes and the most delicious custard doughnuts - the custard is so light and creamy, jewelled with specs of vanilla. They also do a variety of breads - I have not tried them yet, but I shall be sampling some tomorrow with some goats cheese from the market.
We were also very pleasantly surprised by the Topolski stall. A huge variety of polish sausage, pickles and horseradish (the horseradish with beetroot is delicious!). The sausages are all great quality and the flavours great; sausage flavoured with juniper or marjoram or caraway seed, traditional smokey polish sausage etc. It is hard to believe that pickles could ever be exciting, but they had a sour and a sweet variety and they were both very tasty.
Sharing the warehouse space with Topolski is KaseSwiss and their delicious oatcakes. They also sell cheese - as the name might imply! The oatcakes were freshly prepared for us and filled with cheese and onion. The flavour was fantastic and surprised us both. It was rich from the cheese filling and earthy from the oats - sourced from the Hophurst farm. Frying the oatcakes in butter had also given it a delicious nutty quality - needless to say we both thoroughly enjoyed our first warm oatcake experience!
Maltby Street can offer you a fun Saturday morning - especially if you are in need of inspiration for your weekend meals. I do strongly recomend you get there early if you want to get any of the decent stuff though!
One of the places they share with Borough Market is Monmouth Coffee. The coffee there is always of a decent quality, but I do feel they have become a bit of a victim of their own success: the coffee making is often rushed and lacks in depth of flavour and any hints of treacly or caramel notes, that good coffee often has. In any case, it is not bad and the environment they offer is friendly with interesting interiors.
Maltby Street Market is based around Maltby Street (obviously) in Bermondsey. It is fairly spread out and you need to know what you are looking for and where to go for it, but it is all part of the fun and adds to the sense of adventure - I need to spend more time out, don't I? Plenty of great places for cheese, veg, coffee, bread and meat are to be found! For us the most exciting bit of the market is the St. John's bakery. They bake all their produce there on site and it looks and taste scrumptious! They sell brownies, their famous eccles cakes and the most delicious custard doughnuts - the custard is so light and creamy, jewelled with specs of vanilla. They also do a variety of breads - I have not tried them yet, but I shall be sampling some tomorrow with some goats cheese from the market.
We were also very pleasantly surprised by the Topolski stall. A huge variety of polish sausage, pickles and horseradish (the horseradish with beetroot is delicious!). The sausages are all great quality and the flavours great; sausage flavoured with juniper or marjoram or caraway seed, traditional smokey polish sausage etc. It is hard to believe that pickles could ever be exciting, but they had a sour and a sweet variety and they were both very tasty.
Sharing the warehouse space with Topolski is KaseSwiss and their delicious oatcakes. They also sell cheese - as the name might imply! The oatcakes were freshly prepared for us and filled with cheese and onion. The flavour was fantastic and surprised us both. It was rich from the cheese filling and earthy from the oats - sourced from the Hophurst farm. Frying the oatcakes in butter had also given it a delicious nutty quality - needless to say we both thoroughly enjoyed our first warm oatcake experience!
Maltby Street can offer you a fun Saturday morning - especially if you are in need of inspiration for your weekend meals. I do strongly recomend you get there early if you want to get any of the decent stuff though!
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