This April, Canopy Market launches as a new weekly market at King’s Cross. From 6-8 April, the market will revive a historic market site and play host to independent food producers, artists and designers every Friday to Sunday, with live music each Friday evening.
Canopy Market is located under the beautifully restored Victorian glass and steel roof of the West Handyside Canopy, which used to be the site of a potato and Sunday fish market in 1800’s. Now, this historic marketplace is being reclaimed as a new gathering place in the heart of the budding King’s Cross district.
The market aims to offer trading opportunities to high-quality emerging independent makers, sellers and artisan food producers.
From 6 April, additions to the line-up include the recently launched Love Farina, who hand-make fresh pasta live on-site using authentic, organic ingredients, and Luminary Bakery, a bakery and social enterprise based in East London providing training, community and employment opportunities for disadvantaged women.
Regular artisan producers include Bread Ahead, Oak & Smoke, World of Zing and The Charcuterie Board and guests will also be able to grab dishes from a range of street food favourites such as the Growlers, Arancini Brothers, BAP Korean and the Big Melt, toasting Grilled Cheese sandwiches using only the finest British cheese direct from their producer’s family farm.
A guest spot will also be reserved for a revolving line-up of street food traders, including Le Bao, Slingin’ Po Boys and Mei Mei’s Street Cart, and through partnerships with local organisations.
Every Friday evening, Canopy Market will stage ‘Canopy Sessions’ staying open late as a night market and hosting musicians and DJs to welcome the weekend. Beers will be poured at the resident Craft Beer Rising Bar, offering a range of changing taps devoted to the best craft beers and seasonal special editions, whilst Redhill Farm Estate will be serving their English wine and Brevevita present a carefully selected range of natural, limited-production Italian wines.
Fabio Diu, a Director of Real Food Festival who are behind the market, said, 'King’s Cross is an exciting, emerging creative quarter and as a regular, weekly market we’re looking forward to becoming part of the fabric of the local community, providing an important platform for creative, top quality small businesses that we believe in and creating a great space where people can come together to shop, eat and drink from some amazing independent traders.'