Shoreditch has a market open every day of the week, but the big ones cluster on Saturday and Sunday. This guide sets out what trades when, using hours published by each market’s operator in October 2026.
At a glance
- Every day: Old Spitalfields Market, Upmarket food hall, Brick Lane Vintage Market, Ely’s Yard food trucks, Boxpark.
- Thursday to Monday: Artisan, above Brick Lane Vintage Market.
- Saturday: Broadway Market, Backyard Market, Rinse Showrooms, the Tea Rooms.
- Sunday: Columbia Road Flower Market, plus Broadway Market, Backyard Market, Rinse and the Tea Rooms.
Monday to Friday
Old Spitalfields Market, 16 Horner Square, E1 6EW. Open 10am to 8pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and 8am to 6pm on Thursday. The market lists more than 60 shops and stalls and more than 40 food and drink traders.
Upmarket, 83 Brick Lane, E1 6QR. Once the Sunday Upmarket, it is now a daily street-food hall with more than 40 traders. Open 11am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 6pm on Sunday. A retail section joins at weekends.
Brick Lane Vintage Market, 85 Brick Lane. More than 100 vintage traders. Open 11am to 6.30pm on weekdays.
Ely’s Yard food trucks, behind the Truman Brewery, run from 11am to 11pm daily, though individual trucks vary.
Artisan, on the second floor above the vintage market, opens Thursday to Monday with small makers selling handmade goods.
Saturday
Broadway Market, E8, a 20-minute walk north along the canal, trades 9am to 5pm every Saturday of the year. Food, produce and street stalls fill the road between London Fields and Regent’s Canal.
Backyard Market, 146 Brick Lane, E1 6QL. Independent fashion, jewellery, art and food, 11am to 6pm. Rinse Showrooms next door rotates independent London designers, and the Tea Rooms sell antiques, books, vinyl and furniture, both 11am to 6pm.
Spitalfields keeps shorter Saturday hours, 10am to 6pm.
Sunday
Columbia Road Flower Market, E2. Sundays only, from 8am until about 3pm. Traders sell cut and dried flowers, house plants, herbs and, in December, Christmas trees. Many pitches are run by second and third generations of the same families, according to the market’s own history.
The market started as a Saturday trading street. A Sunday market grew as the area’s Jewish population increased, and the Saturday market lapsed. The area declined in the 1970s and demolition was proposed before residents fought to save it. The street is named after Columbia Market, built by the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts and since demolished.
Arrive before 9am to see the stalls before the crowds, or after 2pm for end-of-day prices. The shops along Columbia Road open with the market; some also trade during the week.
On Sunday, Backyard Market, Rinse and the Tea Rooms run 10am to 6pm, Spitalfields 10am to 5pm, and Broadway Market holds a smaller Sunday market from 10am to 4pm.
A Sunday route
Start at Columbia Road at 8am. Walk south down Ezra Street to Brick Lane, about 15 minutes, for the vintage market and Backyard Market. Finish at Old Spitalfields before it closes at 5pm. Beigel Bake at 159 Brick Lane is open 24 hours if the route needs refuelling.
From the archive
Brick Lane has long been a subject for the people Made in Shoreditch interviews. In 2014 the poet Sammy Brough wrote a poem about Brick Lane for the site. In 2025 it covered Gui Chuan’s noodles on Brick Lane. For the shops around the markets, see the Shoreditch shopping guide.