Why is the new Halifax market so fucking stupid? Everyone was excited, it was supposed to be great, and then, we go, and it’s awful!
You have to park, your car half an hour away, and there are cranky crossing guards all over the place. There is nothing fun, nor relaxing about shopping for veggies anymore. —Not impressed
This article appears in Nov 4-10, 2010.
other than the parking, I think it’s pretty spiffy but can get a little crowded.
How can you be mad?
There’s a LIVING WALL FFS.
so pretty….
Walking is good for you. We usually bus downtown, or walk – because the traffic is a nightmare. And it’s crowded, but no more so than the old one… and there’s so many MORE people in there, it’s gotta be good for the farmers.
I like it just fine, and I think when the rooftop garden is done, it’ll be stellar.
I likes the old one too, but even I realized it wasn’t big enough… it had charm, but this one is pretty great too.
I buy all my produce from Avery’s and Farmer Clements…I prefer not to come into the city on the weekends cause I have to make the drive every day. Are those places all local produce? I always assumed so.
That’s why it’s so great actually living in Halifax; you don’t have to worry about parking because you can walk everywhere :). Some walking will do you some good, Mr/Ms Suburb
cant please em all can ya.
The building itself quite a let down, I think.
you don’t like the living wall?
You’re anti-green aren’t you?
have you killed your quota of seals and baby ducks today?
littered frivolously and leave those lights on all the time just because you can?
That’s what’s great about living and shopping in Dartmouth. Have Dave’s or Avery’s to choose from.
zZz…lol.
What’s so great about this market? Purchase wise? Do they have just produce…or do they have meat and all kinds of homemade stuff? like cookies, squares, banana bread, fudge????…..uuuummmmm I love baked goods
Yep, they have all kinds of stuff, meat, cheese, fish, plants, wine, clothing, jewellery, and then prepared foods, like the omlette guys, indian foods, crepes, waffles, pizza… it’s all good, all there, and yumminess. I always spend too much, but I enjoy it.
I go to the market to get my food stuffs and get out, I don’t go for the experience. The new one is great because I get to avoid off-key busker-types with one fell swoop.
I love a lot of things about the market – I think it’s wonderful that it’s wheelchair accessible, that it’s so environmentally friendly, and that my favourite farmers moved to the new market. What I dislike is the parking, – and as much as I like walking, I don’t have the luxury of living downtown so it would be a long walk to cowie hill – the lack of buskers, and the fact that people people now bring huge strollers that make it impossible for people to walk in two directions down the same corridor. I also found it somewhat annoying a couple weeks ago when a cruise ship was in, because there were a number of giant tour buses coming and going which had a significant impact on the traffic. But, I think a lot of the kinks will work themselves out in the next year or so (and hopefully people will get the hint to leave their huge strollers at home).
Hey hollah, see if you can’t find parking further away, like more downtown, towards the citadel – it’s not a loooong walk, that’s where we park away from the crowds if we have to bring the vehicle down. You can often even get parking on south street or in that neighbourhood – even closer. that way you skip the annoying tour buses and slow traffic and paid parking.
I’m not really a Farmer’s Market type of person. Mostly because it would actually require me to get up at a reasonable time on the weekend. 😛
Brendon! It’s open until 1:30… looking forward to evening hours too, when is that starting?
Then there’s also the fact that I don’t really cook at all.
OK…now I gotta check it out…I was sold on the waffles. Where is it? I thought it was in the brewery market?
Uh, or they’ll cook for you… There’s all kinds of prepared food, dude. And great sausages and meat and stuff. I mean, common, you must eat at least. And breads and patries and desserts…mmm….
Anyway – they opened the new “seaport” market next to pier 21. You can’t miss it with all the crazy traffic. It’s really quite an experience. If you’re like cranky and just go in an out, you should still be able to make a good mad grab on everything you need in 20mins or so, it’s just the parking that’s a pain.
Saturday or Sunday?
I find it funny that people have such an issue with parking at the new market. Parking is limited EVERYWHERE in the downtown core. Have you ever looked for parking near the metro centre on the night of a sold-out event? Tried to find a spot near the bars and restaurants on a Saturday night? Sometimes you have to suck it up, park a few blocks away and walk. Gasp.
Ehhh, I’m still not convinced. 😛
agreed.
The cheeses you get there are amazing.
I bought dragon’s breath blue, gouda, goat’s parmesan, and maple cheddar last time….
quite the evening was had with munching…
saturday
The Parking Lot Nazis have replaced the Smelly Earthy Busker as the new reason to loathe the Sunday Market. Where do they get those people and what kind of instructions do they give them, for real?
zZz said Saturday and Cranky called it the sunday market…WTF guys?
oops, saturday. swry
It’s like most new things, there are always teething issues that eventually get fixed – well, except for City Hall and the Legislature, oh and Metro Transit and err the justice system, bike lanes, religion, fat fuckers.
I like the Market as you can get real dogs knobs (sausages) – nothing nicer than a banger or 2 with mashed spuds, you have to save the grease from the bangers and pour it onto the mashed potatoes though, in moderation, with a hefty dollop of butter and salt and pepper. You need to have consumed several beers while you wait for the bangers to cook to complete this culinary masterpiece, while dressed in “fat Pants” and a T shirt that will absorb the splatter.
I like the cheese guy & the lady withthe honey & beeswax at the old Keiths Market…
funny I worked the ultimate hugging contest at the old forum Saturday, amateur fighters, keystone cops were the production crew ! Was a nightmare that a couple of co-workers compared to the New market…saying it was much the same way too crowded, with brain dead people as ushers & security, & a Production that was late showing up for their own load in…by over 2 hours & the show was 2 & a half hours late finishing !
Hmmm seems a common theme, people who mean well & haven’t got a clue, in charge of something they don’t understand.
I’ve got a question though, maybe one of you here can answer it.
Bars, halls, concert venues etc all have a Fire Dept. limit to how many people can be in the facility at any one time… anyone know if the capacity of the market is posted ?
Does anyone check to see that in case of an emergency, people will be able to escape the building without a mob scene/riot of people trapped by the sheer flood of humanity, attempting to get out through a couple of doors ! !
they wouldn’t be trapped, it’d be a trampling.
It would be tough to set the place ablaze though considering it’s all concrete and brick with a bit of wood here and there.
The fumes from burning electrical is all you need to asphyxiate !
There’s the logic….build the farmer’s market downtown, where traffic is already congested, parking difficult to find, and then fight to get around. They should have built it in exhibition park, or somewhere else.
They wouldn’t get the crowd out ex park. Not every weekend.
that dragon’s breath cheese is da bomb. you can buy it at local source too
and at Pete’s.
But to be fair, there IS a lot of parking down there – everything in front of the Cunard Centre – and across from it too is for the market. The idea of having the market downtown is to draw people down there. People either have to drive/walk past everything and they might be enticed to stop, or even come back NOT during market hours. It’s the same way in every major city and there is a lot of economic spin off from gathering thousands of people downtown every saturday morning.
Good point ralmn.
I don’t know what it is about eyes, but REAL CHICK & snubiz have sexy avatars :>)
Why don’t you step out of your “missing the point” car bubble, hop on the 8 or go for a nice stroll? Alternatively, go for a relaxing drive to your suburb’s chain grocery store and buy some vegetables from halfway around the world if it stresses you out. One less vacantly-staring idiot standing in the way of everyone else. Sounds good to me.
People who do the ‘I buy local and I’m saving the planet for you’ make me want to go for a long drive, just for the sake of driving.
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Bloody marvellous. And I just traded my RRSP,s for some allegedly “magic” beans.
Dammit >: (
I think that Real Chick should re-consider her opinions about the market. If she doesn’t, I think she should have her panties pulled down and be given a good spanking.
Thank you.
to each their own, o.p.
Poltergeist voice – Shheee’s baaack
Hi Annie :>)~
People who are having hard time finding parking spots, have you tried the parking space across the Marginal Road from the Cunard Centre, where the Multicultural Festival was held this year? I think that spot is open to the public on the weekends, although I can’t be 100% sure. It is a bit down the street, but the walk shouldn’t be that bad unless you have mobility issues.
m.m., that was so,…. juvenile, welcome to the real fucking world. what pulled your head out of your ass?
I live a five-minute walk from the Farmer’s Market. Thou vexed, bitcher?
Seriously though, this city is walkable as hell. Fair enough if you live in Sackville or something but if you park ANYwhere along the waterfront (not like there are any shortage of lots) it’s a short walk to the Market.
Complainers like OP are the cancer that is killing Halifax
it’s a damn cool market. It’s not that fucking hard to find parking if you must drive, asshole.
vegans would go completely mental if they had a place like we have Vancouver called Sunrise Market eg: broccole CROWNS .79/lb; tomatoes .39/lb; bok choy .49/lb;long beans .79/lb ;zucchini .39/lb etc. it’s wild 🙂
I was a regular customer at the old market and now I’m a regular customer at the new market.
The old market certainly had character, but I always felt like a sardine and usually ended up ‘parking’ myself somewhere with a coffee while my wife shopped. The crowds drove me nuts. We usually had to circle around looking for parking (after they started charging for the lot down Lower Water Street) and often ended up parking a few blocks away. I enjoyed listening to the buskers – the acoustics in some parts of the old market were great for musicians.
The new market has no character. It is a little more walkable but the crowds are building and while it is less claustrophobic than the old market the aisles are getting jammed with shoppers and gawkers. The ‘SUV type’ strollers are getting to be a problem. I think they should ban them. Folks can carry they’re kids in backpacks instead. The acoustics are terrible for busking but that doesn’t really enter into the business case for moving to the new location. Parking is a problem, but we don’t end up walking that much further than we used to at the old market.
Just on a whim, I visited the old market to see what it would be like without the throngs of people squeezed into all those rooms and hallways. I thought I might enjoy it more. Surprisingly I didn’t. It was kind of sad really. Lots of empty spaces and most of my merchants had moved to the new place already. I won’t be going back.
I never thought I’d say it, but I guess I will miss the old market the way it used to be, while I’m shopping at the new market.
Soooo sum the comments up for me someone: new market — worth getting my butt out of bed before noon on a saturday or not?
Watch your butt PK. Aside from the risk of becoming halifamous on u-toob, Annie’s back and it seems he’s got a hankerin’ fer some spankerin’.
You know, I thought about that whole butt filming thing and does he show faces? Because if not how different is that from when the news does stories on fat people and shows their fat butts on tv (shoots them from the neck down)?
I dunno. I gave up on that whole freedom of the press vs. objectification of wimmin debate a couple of decades ago.
*Mouse ears* the new kitteh, though. >: )
…and what is it about cats and sinks. Our old tom, Hubert used to fill our bathroom sink to the brim – like a jello mold. I could even turn the water on slightly and he’d just sit and watch until the the sensation eventually reached the large clump of nerve endings that contolled his hindquarters. He was the stegosaurus of the feline world.
This is actually the ONLY time she’s ever sat in the sink so I had to take a picture. She prefers the tub 🙂
Thanks Hugo… <3
I was sold on the cheeses….and pastries!
And if Commandante can name a tonne of dislikes about it but still keep coming back..then I’m in! See you all Saturday.
Oooh maybe this is where we can have our LTWWBer ‘meeting’! lol
I’d probably even drag my ass out of bed for such an occassion 🙂
make it next week! I’m in town next weekend and will be going to the market for sure… it’ll be way harder to guess at people though than it would be at lasertag…
Be thankful you have a Farmer’s Market, assholes.
Next week I have a grad recruitment test to write all morning 🙁
And I’m getting mah hairz done this saturday!
Oooh PK gon’ get her hair did!…I’ll stop that now 😛
yeah, parking in Downtown sucks
I have to be in the city tomorrow anyway, so I’ll try to make it to the market. Then for a frosty. Working tomorrow Ivan?
In case anybody wants a description, let me know.
bring your dog to the shop for some treats^^®
Every Saturday Hugo. Drop in and say Hello.
Windsor St. pg?
close but no cigar…no we don’t sell them either