St George's Market Saturday City Food & Garden Market

What to Expect

St George’s Market is Belfast’s oldest covered market, open since 1890 in its Victorian red-brick hall on East Bridge Street. The Saturday City Food & Garden Market is the foodie highlight of the week, with over 200 stalls selling fresh seafood, locally grown vegetables, wild boar burgers, artisan bread and pastries, gourmet chocolates, cheese and street food from around the world. Regular traders include Suki Tea, Ann’s Pantry and Hillstown Farm, alongside a rotating cast of smaller producers and food trucks. Live music plays throughout the morning from a stage inside the hall, giving the whole space a genuinely festive feel rather than a straightforward shopping trip.

The market has run on this site for well over a century and shows no sign of slowing down, drawing both regular Belfast shoppers stocking up for the week and visitors treating it as a destination in its own right. Because it is a weekly fixture rather than a dated one-off, this listing is kept updated to the next Saturday. The Friday Variety Market (8am to 2pm) leans more towards antiques, crafts and bric-a-brac with some food stalls mixed in, and the Sunday Market covers similar ground with its own trader mix, so a weekend visit can easily stretch across two or three different market days.

Good to Know

• Every Saturday, 9am to 3pm; recurring weekly year-round

• 12-20 East Bridge Street, Belfast city centre

• Free entry; food and drink purchased individually at stalls

• Friday Variety Market also runs 8am to 2pm; Sunday Market includes food stalls too

• Live music plays through the morning inside the market hall

Getting There

St George’s Market is a 5-minute walk from Belfast Central station and 10 minutes from Great Victoria Street station. Multiple bus routes stop on Oxford Street alongside the market.