Bedales of Borough
Bedales is a wine bar and shop offering an unusually diverse wine list and a daily-changing menu of small plates, as well as an expertly curated selection of bottles to take home.
To help guide your festive wine shopping, Jane Parkinson set out to define the grapes and wine styles that would fuel her perfect Christmas Day, from start to finish.
Cartwright Brothers Vintners Ltd
Founded by brothers Martin and David Cartwright, Cartwright Brothers Vintners Ltd is now run by Martin’s son Richard, who sources wines from around the world, mostly from independent estates.
Richard was one of the traders who spoke to us a couple of years ago for a lovely feature about the generational shift taking place within the Borough Market community.
Change Please
Change Please is an award-winning social enterprise which aims to end homelessness through the power of employment, training, personal support and great-tasting coffee.
Tomé Morrissy-Swan wrote about Change Please’s mission in his piece about Borough Market’s coffee traders and their efforts to make a positive contribution to society.
Gastronomica Market
Gastronomica Market imports high-quality produce from small artisan producers across the length and breadth of Italy, including salumi, cheeses and store cupboard ingredients.
Their beautiful finocchiona is one of the cured meats featured in our quick guide to the ultimate Borough Market Christmas charcuterie platter.
Ginger Pig
Enjoy Tim’s recipe
Ginger Pig’s meat is sourced from a network of like-minded farmers, who between them raise a wonderful array of native British livestock, with an emphasis on animal welfare standards.
The business’s founder Tim Wilson supplied us with this recipe for a festive roast porchetta, a magnificent stuffed pork loin for Christmas Day.
L’Ubriaco Drunk Cheese
Known in Italy as ‘ubriaco’ cheeses, the products sold by this eponymous Borough Market stall are created by steeping cow’s milk cheeses in wine as they age.
Clare Finney wrote about the history of this distinctly Italian cheese style and told the story of Basajo, a fruity, creamy, sweet wine-soaked cheese sourced by L’Ubriaco Drunk Cheese.
McLaren’s Christmas Pudding
McLaren’s Christmas Pudding is a regular seasonal presence at Borough, offering a richly flavoured, slow-matured pudding, made from butter rather than suet for a lighter, creamier texture.
Nadja Auerbach provided us with a fun, child-friendly recipe for using up excess Christmas pudding in the unlikely event that there’s any left over.
Neal’s Yard Dairy
Neal’s Yard Dairy offers a truly stunning array of cheeses sourced from specialist British and Irish cheesemakers, many of which are aged in its own maturing rooms in Bermondsey.
Spendwood, a Berkshire sheep’s milk cheese with a sweet, milky flavour and a slight piquancy, is a key ingredient in a lovely winter salad recipe by Elly Curshen.
Oroshi
Oroshi brings traditional Japanese ‘robatayaki’ – marinated and grilled skewers – to the Borough Market Kitchen, using sustainably sourced, high-quality vegetables, meat and fish.
Cathal, the stand’s founder and chef, spoke to Tomé Morrissy-Swan about how he and his fellow traders look to each other’s stalls for ingredients and inspiration.
Whirld
Sold exclusively at Borough Market, Whirld’s awe-inspiring range of creamy, crumbly fudges are handmade to traditional recipes, using wholly natural ingredients.
Proceeds from the stall are used to make regular donations to Casa Guatemala, a charity working in rural Guatemala, and the SUGi Project, which restores urban ecosystems by planting pocket forests.
Wyndham House Poultry
Set up in 1995 by Lee and Lin Mullet, Wyndham House Poultry joined Borough Market sells fresh free-range poultry sourced from small, independent producers.
Their free-range rare breed turkeys will elevate any Christmas dinner. For simple instructions on how to cook one to perfection, look to this quintessential festive recipe from Ed Smith.
