Marché Batignolles

Produce from the Marché Batignolles

Saturday 18 February 2012
Marché Batignolles

Métro Place de Clichy/Rome
On Saturday

Le Marché Batignolles is held on the boulevarde des Batignolles, which is a very wide street. The market is on the centre divider strip. It is a few minutes walk from our apartment.

At times, at a market, we think, yes, this is the best market in Paris and then it happens; we are at another market that is just so good that it has to go to the top of the list and that is le Marché Batignolles. It is an organic market. It is a wonderful market. As good as le Marché Grenelle, except there is no l'escargot stall.

In Paris, we will buy anything from anywhere, strawberries from...., dates from......, oranges from... , but our very favourite is clementines from .....wherever. At this market, they have the best Italian stall we have ever been to with absolutely magnificent produce. We bought cheese with white truffles, a green coloured cheese, dried tomatoes etc. etc. Stalls had apples that were non-commercial varieties, two strange passion fruit, orange coloured turnips, absolutely delicious pineapple; the fruit is  a deep yellow orange colour. Everyone was buying these pineapples because the owner of the stall was walking up and down the aisle cutting off pineapple slices for everyone to taste.
Salesmanship at its best! ....of course, we bought a pineapple too.

A small squid from le Marché Batignolles.

à bientôt