London food hot spot: Borough Market

We take a tour around borough Market to find out why this place is always so buzzing.

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00:00London's Borough Market, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the

00:05capital and also a hotspot for locals working nearby to grab some lunch. When

00:12you enter the Borough Market from the London Bridge station side, you're

00:15greeted by almost artisanal stores from bagel shops to sweet stands selling all

00:20kinds of licorice. It's difficult to get past all the amazing looking pastries

00:25and looking at all the amazing kinds of fudge on offer, but all these stands

00:30don't even scratch the surface of what's on offer in Borough Market. As you

00:36venture deeper into London's version of a bizarre market, it's a sensory overload.

00:41Everywhere you look you see different food stands, the aromas are almost

00:46overwhelming. One of the first places you see is the world-famous fish and chip

00:52stall, an award-winning stand selling a British staple. Definitely more popular

00:57with people on holiday, but opposite is a new stall taking the market by storm

01:01selling mushroom risotto. The mushrooms are cooked in a large skillet and slowly

01:07added to another huge pan filled with risotto. It really did look incredible.

01:14Talking of big skillets, a little further in is the ever-popular paella stand.

01:19Huge batches of sweet crusty rice are being cooked and queues down an entire

01:25row for this one. It's definitely one of the most in-demand dishes in the

01:29market. But back next to the mushroom risotto is a bakery and the doughnuts

01:34here are supposed to be the thing to try, so I had to. There really were just too

01:41many choices from creme brulee doughnuts to Nutella, but I decided to try a lemon

01:46curd doughnut. An underrated flavour in my opinion and it was amazing. The bread

01:51was really light, the curd was sweet and sharp. It was definitely spot-on. I'd

01:56recommend it. But coming out the other side of Borough Market you see fruit

02:00stands, veg stands, salt beef sandwiches and butcher shops. But as you follow the

02:04windy paths outside, you approach the iconic seating stand. Out here is where

02:11the savoury options come into their own, with anything from Iraqi dishes to small

02:16plates of Japanese food like gyozas and ramen. There's also Indian street food, a

02:23Tel Aviv market and sandwich shops. This particular stall is a big favourite for

02:27Londoners on their lunch breaks. Borough Market is a staple of London's culture,

02:33so much so that records of the site date back to around the 12th century and over

02:39800 years later it's still going strong. But up until a few decades ago it was

02:45purely a wholesaler's market and these days it's open to the public. There you

02:49have it, London's most famous spot when it comes to food, Borough Market. And we'll

02:54be exploring some of the capital's most iconic spots right here on London News.