Leather Lane Market, London

Great local market which has something for everyone. Plenty to choose from whether it be breakfast, lunch or grabbing some veg or plants to take home.
Love this place.

Great atmosphere and great variety

This is a really standard London street market with stalls selling anything from clothers, bags, jewellry to phones and food. Really good buritto stall about half way along the market. Well worth a stroll during the day.

love this market it is close by to my work place and i can find all sorts from clothes, bags and food! decent quality and good prices!

I just love Leather Lane Market, in the middle of the city it’s a joy having such a beautiful place.

There’s loads of options for food, my favorite one is All about coffee, they make the perfect cappucino and yummy pastas, specially the lasagna.

'Real shops’ are great…but there is something about a market. Leather Lane market is, as you might expect, on Leather Lane. It is an outdoor market running on weekdays until around 4.00pm.

It is not a posh arty market. It is a typical London street market. You can buy bags (and, in fact, I replaced my stolen rucksack at Leather Lane - a decent quality rucksack for £15 - result), clothes, mobile phone accessories, computers and computer gear and food there, all at reasonable prices.

There are some excellent food stalls, including a burrito stall where you can get burritos the size of a baby - I’ve bought from there once. They are excellent, but just way, way too big. There are also whole foods and drinks, thai and curry.

Leather Lane is a fun market where you can get some good bargains. As a working stiff, it is small enough that you can have a proper browse in the one hour we get for lunch.

Leather Lane is a strange place. Hidden away from the main high street in Holborn it is located just next the large financial firms, and also Hatton Gardens (the heart of the diamond shops in London). I often head down there during lunch time as apart from the many random stalls (panama hats, batteries, discount biscuits, fruit smoothies!) it also has a great range of places to eat. They have fantastic salad stalls, a great thai curry van and possibly my favourite ‘Daddy Donkey’. This huge van serves up great burritos and there are always long queues for this one.

A burrito is a large tortilla stuffed full of rice, beans, chicken or beef, and topped with sour cream and guacamole. The street really is a hidden gem and as well as the good food there is always some random thing you will pick up from a stall at some point.

Traditional London street market off Clerkenwell Road at the Grays Inn end. Low on fruit and vegetables (though a few stalls at the beginning sell them), but high on cheap market fashion, nuts and teas, cloths, cheap toothpastes, and smoothies. The atmosphere is wonderful, bustling but not too big. The street is full of cafes to sit in after shopping too, and the area full of London history, with wonky old townhouses and Hatton Gardens nearby.

Leather lane market is I think the oldest market in London and is probably the only true Londoners market left. It is quite a small market frequented by office workers and a few locals located alone leather lane in the heart of central London. Many different things are sold on here such as the usual cheap food products and dvds as well as designer cloths (although I couldn’t vouch for there authenticity ) and there is a great maezine stall at the top which sells them for 75p each or £1 for the posh ones which I believe are last months issues but are all the normal mags you get in the shops.

Great local market with real character. Frequented by both local office workers and visitors. Wide range of items on offer. Great for interesting jewelry. Large number of clothing stalls offering branded items at good prices. Also flowers, books, varied food stalls and toiletries. Enjoy an hour strolling through the stalls and grab a bite to eat. Some nice pubs and bars in the vacinity for afterwards.

Love this market. If you look closely you may find some hidden gems which are well worth the money!!

Tucked between Greville Street and Clerkenwell Road, this market in the heart of the city is almost unknown to tourists. It's an outpost of real London where office workers go to graze at lunch time in the numerous sandwich bars. And lunch times is when to see this market at its most frenetically busy.
As well as having a good feed, you can also buy shoes, clothes, handbags, potted plants, jewellery, fruit and veg and electrical goods, all at extremely keen prices. There's been a market here for over 300 years. If you think you can guess the origin of the street name, think again - it's got nothing to do with an ancient leather trade. In the 13th century the street was called Le Vrunelane, possibly the name of a local merchant. In the 14th century this became corrupted to Loverone Lane, subsequently to Liver and finally to the Leather we know today.

But it's got nothing to do with leather, despite the confusing fact that you can buy leather shoes and handbags there. Honest.

The market is open from 10.30am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday.

The Leather Lane Market is where I go everyday during lunch.

You find everything there: shoes for £5, tops and trousers from Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Moto (...) for £10 or even less.

There is also a stand held by a French lady where you can find fancy necklaces, earings or other accessories for less than £7. It is my favourite stand. Every colour, every style. If she does not have what you want, you just ask and she gets it for you!

There is also one guy who sells Estee Lauder make-up for £5-7 and branded perfumes for £15.

As Christmas is approaching, they will display nice evening dresses very soon! (Just a tip for you girls ;-))

The stand at the end of the market is where you can buy
Gucci, Chanel or Guess bags and wallets.

so, shop till you drop without making a huge dent in the bank.