Reading Terminal Market - A Little Bit About a Lot of Things A Little Bit About a Lot of Things

May 8, 2014 Reading Terminal Market

Reading Terminal Market is just steps away from the Ritz Carlton Hotel in city center. We end up spending a lot of time there, not only for the great people watching, but for the one stop shopping it provides.

For those of you from Boston, it’s like Fanueil Hall, but bigger, and better.

You can have a sit down meal at a restaurant, grab some fresh seafood, and do your grocery shopping all in one place.

There’s definitely a hustle and bustle here at the market – a mix of those people trying to do their daily errands fighting to get upstream through the tourists who are ooh-ing and ahh-ing at everything.

Today, Reading Terminal Market is one of the most successful public markets. It supports over 75 small and local businesses.

They offer tours of the market through Taste of Philadelphia Market Tours. Tours are led by a food writer and are scheduled on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10am.

I was a little surprised that the market is not open later in the evenings – their hours of operation are Monday – Saturday 8-6 and Sunday 9-5.

Some of the restaurants offer counters for diners, there is a large communal dining space located in the center of the market for those places that do not offer seating.

Bassetts ice cream is a piece of Philadelphia history, a fifth-generation family business and a Philadelphia tradition since 1861. We didn’t get to stop this trip, but it gives us something to look forward to next time.