Saturday, August 11, 2007

OTTAWA - BYWARD MARKET

One of the streets that border the ByMarket. Saturday is the big day with the market being extremely crowded whereas on weekdays, it is only crowded. Many people who live in the city come here for their produce, meats, fish, and so forth. Some come on their bikes, others walk, and many take the bus. It is a great place.
People strolling in the market area. There are crafts and stores that sell all sorts of goods besides food. Many excellent restaurants are in the 4 block or so area. Right in the center of the marketplace, there is a building housing ethnic foods like Moroccan, Italian, Chinese, Lebanese, French, Middle Eastern, and Japanese.
Many stalls are in tents while many others, like this grocery store, are permanent in the district. As a matter of fact, the next time we visited the Market this store had a sign on it saying they "went fishing until August 22."
These are some of the tent stalls. This part of the market is only open June through September.
An Irish Pub where we had an excellent lunch and dined on second floor patio. It felt like a bit of Ireland inside.

One of many farmer's stalls selling luscious raspberries and blueberries along with tomatoes, squash, peppers, and many fruits of the region.

Flowers and plants were a big hit also, When we were on the bus out of the city, several people had a bouquet of flowers.
Grapes to the right, starfruit in the middle, and an unknown at the end.




This is at one end of the ethnic building and is the French Cafe. We resisted the first time we visited but indulged in a French lunch and pastry on our second visit.
Many creative and delicious cakes.

People were buying these pastries at a rapid rate. What a surprise!

What great looking breads.
The famous Sacher Torte from Vienna.

No comments: