Chelsea Market

Indoor market in a converted space that used to be... I forget, but something else. Now it's warm and cozy on a December day, and just the food smells alone are enough to make a stroll through well worth it. We ate Vietnamese sandwiches and window shopped at the most amazing seafood market. Unlike Pike Place Fish, which is messy and chaotic, this place has everything lovingly displayed in long acrylic troughs of ice. Kind of like how Japanese food differs from Chinese food--both really good, but presented in opposite ways. Anyway if I lived here I would go broke from buying fresh fish.Read more