What a lovely little shop!!…read more I popped in here on the way home as my friend told me that they do amazing homemade baklava. I was really impressed by their fruit and veg. I bought some lovely aubergines, courgettes, peppers and tomatoes (for ratatouille -nom) they were all gorgeous and reasonably priced. I also tried some of their plums and pears - the pears are easily the nicest I've had in London. I looove baklava so I chose a few different types and wandered home all excited! You can tell they are home-made...and they are bigger than the baklava I am used to from most Turkish shops in London (yay!) ...BUT I wasn't that keen (nooo!) They were just a little bit too gooey for me - they seemed more like the baklava I've tried in Greece. They have so much syrup that the pastry goes a little soggy and can't retain its flakiness. Anyway, despite the baklava disappointment, I still really like this shop. I'll need to come back for their homemade hummus and other delicatessen items. If you live near here, you should come and try them too!

Normally I'd stay far away from this section of Caledonia Road but a little birdie told me that…read morethis little food shop is widely known for having the best hummus in London, so I thought, why the hell not? I slipped on my trainers, put on my sunglasses and set off on foot to Yasar Food Market. I arrived a few minutes later and was pleasantly surprised by the shop. In all honestly, I wasn't expecting much from a food shop off Caledonia Road. The shop is clean and tidy and didn't have that awful smell that seemingly all food shops in London have. There's a fair amount of stuff stocked in this tiny shop but it didn't feel messy or crowded or should be features on an episode of Hoarders. It felt homey and warm and welcoming and I loved it! Running down the right-hand side of the shop is a deli counter with homemade foodstuffs - hummus, falafal, turkish pizza, tzatziki, olives, and loads of other stuff. The other 2/3rds of the shop was filed with various juices (some of which I've only ever seen in Whole Foods for double the price), homemade breads, and then an unusual assortment of typical fare you'd expect in a corner shop like Haagen-Dazs, Tampax, cleaning products, and Green & Blacks chocolate. The organic produce out front looked amazing. I think this may just be where I buy all my produce going forward. The tomatoes were red and didn't look like they'd been frozen like they are at all the big supermarket chains in the UK. The service was friendly (presumably a mother and son team, I've read the father passed away a few years back). The prices were tolerable and, hey, the shop is much closer to my flat than any of the three supermarkets in the neighborhood, so, again, why not?

SMBS is excellent: it stocks hand-chosen fresh vegetables and fruit, and an extensive range of…read moreorganic pulses and chilled foods. It is owned by a courteous and knowledgable gentleman who is always most helpful, and pleased to talk about the food he is selling. Highly recommended!

For the standard and slightly more unusual fruits and vegetables, organic and fair trade foods and…read moresupplies, SMBS is well stocked, reasonably priced and excellent quality. n this family run food store you will also find a good range of vitamins and supplements, everything you need for a healthy lifestyle.

You'd either prance into Stoke Newington Farmers' Market as the mecca of your fresh, organic,…read morelocally grown pilgrimage, or you'd stumble on it by mistake. It was the latter for me, and I couldn't feel luckier to have found such a gem. Since that day I've learned that all that fruit and veg and cheese and meat and yummmmmm that I was drooling over all comes from within 100 miles and is sold (and transported) by the growers themselves. How legit is that? Oh, and it's the first farmers' market in the UK to offer only organic and biodynamic produce? I love you. (Oh Portland, you crunchy little city, you -- you're just borrowing ideas from everyone now aren't you?)

This is a Farmers Market in every sense of the word. There are about twenty stalls give and take,…read moreand every one is organic or healthy in some way. The punters were very savvy as to what they wanted too, so talking to them about the villainy of supermarkets was great. With more organic fruit & veg than you can shake a stick at, vegan ice-cream, Indian food, organic fresh breads, not to mention a fantastic butcher, Stoke Newington Farmers Market is a great find.

I love them!!! Food is so fresh and delicious. You can really taste the difference! Unfortunately,…read moreI can not move from home and I order their food from this https://www.mytownshops.com/shops/barnes-farmers-market I hope I helped ;)

This is a really great local market for local people. You'll have no trouble here…read more What I love about this market is that it's constantly changing.. some weeks there is a guy making fresh sushi, the next there will be French people serving up crepes that smell.. well, ridiculous, frankly. It's like you're by the Seine, not the Thames. I love the stall around the back that sells homemade sauces, chutneys and jams. Again, it's not there every week, but in a way that's good, or else jam and mustard is all I'd eat. Last week, I had the best brownie I've ever tasted, meaning I'm going to have to go to the gym for one extra session this week so I don't feel too guilty when I go back this Saturday. The two downers to this place are: 1. Because of the neighbourghood, and owing to the nature of the produce, it is quite pricey. I don't mind supporting local farmers, but you can end up spending more than you intend. 2. There isn't as much fruit and veg as I'd like ideally. I often go with a list of veggies that I want, only to be leave with just half of them. As Molly K says, it's not somewhere I'd recommend to people who have to travel, but it is worth a look when you're in the area, if only for the heavenly brownies.

If I need a lot of vegetables (and I have time on a Saturday) I come here. That's all you really…read moreneed to know. Just outside Selby's on the Holloway Road is this beautiful fruit and veg stall where good quality fresh food can be had at consistently high value. If you look in the picture everything that you see is a single pound per bowl and their offers are pretty consistent depending on season. Today I bought an entire box of mangos for £1.50 where the equivalent in Waitrose is £4-5. Amazing! The only downsides are that like any smaller seller the occasional fruit may be bad (though I did get a mouldy pepper from Tesco yesterday), the stock a little variable, and that they shut on most days before I get home meaning I have to go at the weekend.

Does anyone still need convincing on the subject of Bethnal Green's gentrification? Nestled…read morecomfortably along Roman Road towards the West Bow side is Simply Fresh, Tower Hamlet's answer to Stokey's Whole Foods. Here you can get some locally sourced organic beets and radishes for your juice fast... I mean strict vegan, gluten free diet. Buy some leafy kale, get a box of alfalfa sprouts and a bottle of hemp milk. There's even a fill your own bottle of white or red, provided by Borough Wines. No need to get confused over which bus to take to get to London Bridge. Hear hear. No really, I'm so glad Simply Fresh have stepped in and filled the gaping manhole that is the lack of a convenient shop which caters to the conscientious fair trader around these parts. Would you believe it, even Vicky Park Village is missing one! Sure the shops along Roman Road in West Bow have adjusted their stock in accordance to the area's new somewhat upwardly mobile crowd but those shops don't stock Borough Wines or have a deli counter with The Olive Company's products, do they? More importantly those shops don't stock kombucha and don't know what kombucha is. Excellently stocked for such a small place, you can get your hands on oyster mushrooms, shiitake, seasonal fruits and vegetables, tofu, dairy alternatives, freshly baked bread, free from snacks, loads of local brews as well as a huge selection of wines for regular people and for Borough Market people. This place is where it's at! Looks a bit out of place at the moment but I don't see it ever being empty and staff are lovely!

Shop "advertised" as organic, focused on good greens and vegetables. The reality is that the…read moreorganic section is tiny and provenance of all fresh products is mystereus. Only prepacked food reports the producing country. And garlic comes from CHINA. Now, you can grow garlic almost anywhere, and it's an extremely cheap product, there is no excuse to import it from so far. This is not a serious organic shop, it's just trying to fill a gab in the market. Get your labels right and allow the consumer to really choose what to buy! (And of course I'll change my review)

The best shop in the uk and perhaps the world. I got a falafel wrap here like 3 or 4 years ago and…read moreI think about it twice every day because it was the most delicious thing I have ever eaten. All of the employees deserve a nobel prize for their contributions to humanity

Are you in need of a place where you can both indulge in a delicious Middle-Eastern wrap and…read morebreast-feed your baby? - Well, then you should come to Phoenicia! Phoenicia is a lot: it's a supermarket, a butcher, a quick-lunch place, as well as a place where you can come to and have a lovely chat with a friend while eating away at their delicious selection of baklava. As for the wraps/sandwiches, there are basically two choices: the Lebanese wrap (a plain flat-bread wrap) or the Moroccan wrap (a flat-bread with spinach inside). Once you've made this difficult choice, you have to make more choices...you can fill your wrap with salads (such as tabbouleh), spreads (such as humous) and meats (such as spicy chicken or merguez). But, if you don't want to choose, you might as well order two kinds of wraps as the prices of one is very reasonable. Later, you may want to top it all off with a nice baklava, which you might even get for free if you're really nice. In fact, speaking of nice, the service here is super-friendly. Everyone is very polite and they bring your food to the table... After your lunch (or whatever you've had) you should go check out their supermarket...you will basically find here anything you need. They also have a very nice selection of organic products.

My local market is small but plentiful with food stalls from all over the world…read more As well as street food, there are also flower stores, cheese stores, specialist artesian food stores, meat stores, a dog treat store, and even a hemp store! They only accept cash so bring plenty or face a ~£2 surcharge at the only near by cash machine in Londis. After eating be sure to wonder around the vast gardens of Alexandra palace and grab a cake at the garden centre nearby. This is my favourite nearby place to bring my dog for walks.

This is a lovely little farmer's market, and ridiculously convenient for me since I moved to the…read morearea. There's probably only about 15 stalls, but you could do a decent food shop here consisting of fruit & veg, milk, eggs, bread, fish, olives, every type of sausage you can imagine (I settled on pork leek and chilli), amazing cuts of pork and even pre-prepared goodies like pies, chutneys and cakes. And if you get hungry while browsing you can grab a little pie to eat there and then - I enjoyed my butternut squash & spinach, and my hubby devoured his chilli beef & cheddar before I could even snaffle some. If pie isn't your thing, there was also curries, toasted sarnies and all other sorts of goodies. There was also a stall selling hot drinks which even on this sunny Sunday had a sizeable queue. ...when can I go back?