Originally Posted by
chgoeditor
GCM is great, but doesn't hold a candle up the Santa Monica Farmers Markets! I used to live at Sixth & Broadway, so was a couple blocks from
corky 's (and my) fav Bay Cities and not far from the farmers markets. I miss it, particularly this time of year!
We always go to the Wednesday SM Farmers Market when she's in town; we got there at 7:00 am for their 7:30 am opening and were in the third group to be let in once they opened (it's capacity controlled due to the pandemic). When I visit her in Chicago, I go with her to the Lincoln Park Saturday farmers market. When she attended medical school in Cleveland, I went with her to the Shaker Square Market - she had a fabulous wild mushrooms forager there - and when she college in St. Louis it was Soulard Farmers Market. The Santa Monica market is in a class by itself, though; before COVID devastated the restaurant business, I used to enjoy running into some of the top chefs in town while shopping there.