Sunday walk from Brick Lane to Columbia Road Flower Market
A must-do Sunday walk, taking you from food and flower markets to the historic Brick Lane. Why on a Sunday? While the Brick Lane market is also open on Saturdays, the Columbia flower market opens only on Sundays, so we suggest doing this walk on a Sunday morning or afternoon. We started our day from the Hoxton Station, where we had the most delicious cinnamon buns at Fabrique Bakery - highly recommended. Keep in mind that they often run out, so it's worth visiting before or around noon. Next up, we headed to the Columbia Road Flower Market where you can find many kinds of plants at very affordable prices. Then we headed to the famous Brick Lane Market where the queues to the famous bagel shops always stand out - definitely worth trying. Enjoy the rest of the walk on Brick Lane Market as you are heading to one of the most famous locations in the UK for street art and graffiti. Finally, your walk will end at Boxpark, a "pop-up" shopping mall with a variety of both familiar and independent brands to shop. Another great place to grab a bite, as it offers many options for food and drinks.
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Known for the delicious cinnamon buns and bread, Fabrique is an artisanal stone oven bakery from Stockholm, Sweden, using fresh, natural ingredients and traditional methods to make artisanal pastries and sourdough bread.
Columbia Road Flower Market is a street market in Bethnal Green in London, England. Columbia Road is a road of Victorian shops situated off Hackney Road in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The market is open on Sundays only. — Wikipedia
Beigel Bake is a 24-hour bakery and shop founded in 1974, on Brick Lane in Spitalfields, London, England. — Wikipedia
Brick Lane Market is the collective name for a number of London markets centred on Brick Lane, in Tower Hamlets in east London. The original market was located at the northern end of Brick Lane and in the heart of east London's Bangladeshi community but now commonly refers to the various markets that are housed along the famous London street. The various markets that stretch the length of Brick Lane operate both weekdays but most historically weekends: Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Wikipedia
Possibly the most famous location in the UK to find street art and graffiti. Brick Lane is synonymous with the street art and graffiti scene in London. From Whitechapel to Shoreditch it runs up through the heart of the East End. Its streets leading off towards Spitalfields in the west and Bethnal Green in the east all have their stories to tell.— inspiringcity.com
Boxpark is a food and retail park made out of refitted shipping containers in Britain. It was founded by Roger Wade, who described it as the "world's first pop-up mall". The first Boxpark was launched in Shoreditch in 2011. — Wikipedia
