St Lawrence Market

1 May 2010By Zhu 16 Comments

Toronto’s St Lawrence market reminds me of Ottawa’s Byward market: an oasis of fresh products right in the heart of the city.

Most of the market is nested inside a two-storey brick building, between King Street East and the Esplanade. We went there on Saturday morning, and boy it was busy! About half of Toronto seemed to have gathered around the baker, and the other half was queuing for meat, fish or appetizers, such as fresh olives, red pepper and feta cheese or artichokes. People were on top of each other — but of course in a very Canadian way: politely queuing, apologizing if they stepped on your feet and saying “please” and “thank you”.

However, like at the Byward Market, food isn’t cheap. Fresh products are still okay, but eating from one of the tasty food stall can set you back a few dollars more than you would have expected. Yet, the food is pretty good!

You can see the full set of the pictures taken in Toronto here.

Market Street

Cinnammon Buns

Grabbing Cheese	Olives
Cheese	Grapes
Meat Shop	Red Pepper and Feta
Fish	Sundry Tomatoes and Artichoke

16 Comments »

RennyBA's Terella said:

What a great and interesting marked and you’ve shot some good photos to (checked the one at Flickr too you know).

A lot of nice food there too and of course, I’ll go for the fish – crazy Norwegian you know
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# 9 May 2010 at 4:30 pm

expatraveler said:

It’s so interesting to see everything you see in these markets. I think something like what you see here is very hard to come by and way too much money.. Food here on the Island is also more expensive..

By the way, have you seen prices go up recently? I sure have. With our new HST going into affect, I think it will be scary loose more money…
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# 8 May 2010 at 11:24 pm