Shopping
My memories of Covent Garden Market are of stands brimming with choice fruit and vegetables and a once-a-year purchase of a big, fresh turkey.
A recent visit reveals a huge change. At one spot they’re selling Portuguese-style piri chicken. Across the aisle, its curried dishes from Kenya.
On the other side of the cavernous main floor, Zorran Senovac puts on a show. Sliding back and forth on an oiled floor, he tossing phyllo pastry in the air, working it until its so thin it’s almost transparent. He’s making bureks, which he fills with things like meat, cheese or cinammon.
The market, manager Bob Usher explains, is supposed to mirror the ethnic diversity of London. Another way it does that is by hosting festivals, African-Caribbean, Indian, Polish, Italian, and a new one, the Mexican Cinco de Mayo.
Speaking of diversity, check out all the young people sipping tea or coffee and working on their laptops.
There’s an upstairs, I discovered, with a shop stocking 300 kinds of tea and another selling children’s clothing made in Canada, not China.
Some things haven’t changed: people who know what they sell, a scrupulously clean environment, and a half-hour’s free parking weekdays, two hours on weekends.
Phone 519 439 3921; www.coventmarket.com
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