Borough Market boasts London’s biggest street party fit for a queen
One of the biggest street parties of all is at South London’s iconic Borough Market, with its Victorian arches decked out with bunting, vintage music playing from the last seven decades and of course – food fit for a queen.
Traders will compete for the crown of best decorated stall, with a range of dishes to enjoy on site, as well as produce to take home for a regal picnic, street party or barbecue over the bank holiday weekend.
Borough Market is marking this milestone with seven new recipes – one from each decade of Her Majesty’s historic reign – printed in its Jubilee newspaper.
Food historian and writer Angela Clutton has put a modern twist on classics inspired by a leading food writer from each decade.
Patience Gray represents the 1950s, Madhur Jaffrey, the 1980s, with Jamie Oliver standing up for the noughties, and Yottam Ottolenghi the 2010s.
The new recipes will be printed in a specially created free Jubilee newspaper available to pick up at the Market, as well as via Borough Market’s website and social channels.
A much-loved London institution, Borough Market has been visited by members of the royal family including The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Harry, was a wholesale market during the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. It only switched to retail status in 1998.
Main Pic – A Royal re-opening for Borough Market – HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall take a tour of London’s oldest food market on Valentine’s day and officially re-open the newly restored Three Crown Square market hall.
