Borough Market

A covered market in South London near London Bridge Tube, one of the best food places in the capital, begins to approach the levels of delight of a typical spanish or italian market. Too much to go into here but to give some brief impressions, we made the mistake of viswiting the market having already eaten (in the members' room of the nearby Tate Modern, which was fine - a little box of Moroccan Chicken and potatoes, lots of flavoursome leaves but the thin slices of chicken were flavourless) - so were too full to actually eat anything. Spanish deli selling big haunches of parma ham, being thinly sliced before your eyes. Vacuum packs of sweet chorizo, of spanish black pudding and balls of the same. Huge dishes of thai curry and others being cooked, a contraption that toasted huge semicircles of cheese, the molten layer then scraped off to top potatoes or other things. Turkish delight of every flavour. Lots of parma ham, proscuito and salamis. German sausages. Lancashire black puddings. Melton mowbray pies (looked a bit palid and dry), whitby squid, vast drums of paremsan, every cheese you can think of. Lots of barnsley chops. Bakeries, butchers fishmongers. Go and explore, and go hungry.