Borough Market spring shopping guide

Welcome to spring

Borough Market is a place where the shifting of the seasons plays out as a vivid multisensory experience, an ever-evolving palette of colours, scents and tastes. The change is never more striking than when springs rolls around, bringing with it everything from verdant spring vegetables to delicate soft cheeses to sweet Easter treats.

The spring shopping suggestions you’ll find in this short guide are just the tip of a vast iceberg. Hopefully they’ll serve to inspire a more thorough exploration of the Market’s seasonal offerings, which change day by day. Not everything in this guide will be available throughout the season, with different products coming in and out – but that’s all part of the magic. Don’t hesitate to ask traders for their suggestions. They’re the real experts, and they won’t ever be short of a tip or two.

Produce

ASPARAGUS from Paul Crane JERSEY ROYALS from Hickson & Daughter GOOSE EGGS from Hook & Son MANGOES from Raya RADISHES from Stark’s Fruiterers

Explore our digital guide to sourcing and cooking spring vegetables

Cheese

WILD GARLIC LA BOUSE from Jumi Cheese

ROBIOLA TRE LATTI from Gastronomica Market

BREFU BACH from Neal’s Yard Dairy

GRACEBURN from Blackwoods Cheese Company

BATH SOFT CHEESE from Bath Soft Cheese Co

Read about our visit to Park Farm, the idyllic Wiltshire home of Bath Soft Cheese

Wild foods

TROUT

from Furness Fish Markets

WOOD PIGEON

from Shellseekers Fish & Game MORELS

from Stark’s Fruiterers

ROCK OYSTERS

from Richard Haward’s Oysters

WILD GARLIC from Fitz Fine Foods

Enjoy an expert guide to foraging by Noel Fitzjohn of Fitz Fine Foods

Easter

HOT CROSS BUNS

from The Flour Station HOGGET from Northfield Farm

EASTER CHOCOLATES from So Chocolicious

EASTER SWEET POPPY BRIOCHE LOAF

from Karaway Bakery

ASSORTED ITALIAN SWEETS from Maggio’s Confectionery

Explore our digital guide to Easter shopping and cooking

Sweets

BILLY VANILLY ICE CREAM from Greedy Goat

HONEY & CINNAMON CASHEWS

from Food & Forest

ENGLISH HONEY WITH VANILLA from From Field and Flower

KING JUMBO AJWA DATES

from Date Sultan

FIG & LAVENDER PRESERVE from Taste Croatia

Read our recipe for chocolate and date truffles

Drinks

FIRST FLUSH DARJEELING from Tea2You

OLIVER’S FINE CIDER from The Cider House

JEVER PILSNER from Utobeer

TESSEMA EDIMA COFFEE from Monmouth Coffee

REFILL WINES from Borough Wines

The Borough Wines refill station is both economical and environmentally friendly.

Pick up a reuseable glass bottle for £3, then return as often as you like to refill it with a choice of six high-quality wines, starting from just £6.50.

PARK ST

THREE CROWN SQUARE

London