Friday at the Market and Chamber Music

Mercado del Carmen is a historic market built on former 19th-century church cemetery grounds founded by the Carmelite friars in 1844, which was closed in 1880, demolished in the 1890s, and later redeveloped.

This market is the closest fruit, vegetable and meat market to our apartment so we go there for basic fresh foods and the occasional breakfasts. Martha, our apartment neighbour came with us.

The market is highly regarded for the long-standing family businesses, and
famous for 37-year-old traditional cemita stalls. Cemitas are huge sandwiches on sesame seed buns and filled with pork or chicken milanesa,
poblano peppers, Oaxaca cheese, avocado, onion slices and chipotle.

We bought one just to try it out. Way too big for us!

At night we walked into the historic centre to once again hear the free-on-Fridays concert in the Museo San Pedro del Arte. The concert was focused on Chamber Music so the first half featured woodwinds and the second spectacular half featured an amazing brass band. Each of the players was amazingly talented and the conductor was a joy to watch. One of the pieces was for two Piccolo trumpets and what a joy to listen to. The last piece warranted the long standing ovation it got.

Several of our apartment neighbours went too and our next door neighbour saved us great seats near the front. We’ll be back next Friday for sure!Read more