Mare Street Market is getting a grand relaunch

East London foodies, Lime bike enthusiasts and Good Squish scrunchie coveters, listen up. Mare Street Market is to undergo a big relaunch, and it’s being fronted by chef and columnist Gizzi Erskine. 

Mare Street Market (MSM), on the corner of London Fields, was co-founded by Erskine and Marc Francis-Baum in 2018. It launched an outpost in Kings Cross’s Coal Drops’ Yard in 2023. Erskine will now return to MSM as Chef Creative Director across both markets, bringing the indoor dining and shopping destinations a new food offering. 

Erskine is known for her restaurants and ventures The Nitery at St Martins Lane Hotel, Filth Foods and Giz‘n’Greens, a pizza restaurant she owned with Professor Green. 

Under Erskine’s new leadership, MSM will introduce produce-led French-Americana brasseries to the dining halls, alongside deep-filled focaccia sandwiches and ‘bold salads’ at the delicatessen. It will also later launch an ‘all-new health concept’. Keep your eyes peeled, because a series of pop-ups and guest residencies are also on the horizon for the markets.

‘Mare Street Market is my home. It has my DNA in the walls, and it feels natural to come back,’ Erskine said. ‘Marc and I have always been connected in its vision, and I look forward to being part of reestablishing Mare Street Market Hackney and Mare Street Market King’s Cross as some of the most important food and cultural spaces in London.’

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