Quincy Market
Market · Downtown
206 S Market St, Boston, MA 02109
Highlights
Historic food hall with 50+ eateries, diverse offerings, and live music
Historic food hall with 50+ eateries, diverse offerings, and live music
"I remember Quincy Market as a once-great food center that reopened in 1976 with original tenants from the wholesale Boston food market, no chains, and fresh, original dishes, but over the decades it has declined into a tourist-focused, captive-audience food hall where cramped booths, limited prep and refrigeration, rising rents, landlord-tenant mistrust, and operator complacency incentivize 'fast and cheap' food; that decline was crystallized recently when two Houston tourists ordered a cold lobster roll with crawfish tails tucked inside, prompting outrage and an apology and confirming many locals' belief that the market now flops." - Erika Adams
"The centuries-old Boston food hall known as Quincy Market is called a tourist trap and, in the article’s words, 'generally speaking, a terrible place to eat'; it’s the location of the Boston & Maine Fish Company stall where the mixed lobster-and-crawfish lobster salad roll controversy occurred." - Erika Adams
"A historic, ever-crowded food hall attached to a famous marketplace that functions more like a glorified mall food court; it's worth walking through for photos or a quick stop but is widely considered a tourist trap that often sells overpriced, mediocre meals to the underprepared. There are some decent quick-food options inside, but this shouldn't be the top stop on a serious local food list when better, more authentic choices are a short walk away." - Erika Adams
"This poke-inspired, fast-casual Legal Sea Foods offshoot began inside of the Kendall Square Legal Sea Foods, and next it’s headed for the Quincy Market building at the Faneuil Hall Marketplace." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
"Magnolia Bakery, the New York City cupcake spot featured in Sex and the City, finally makes good on its long-promised Boston expansion, opening at Quincy Market. Fans of existing locations will find all the usual treats, plus some special Boston items, such as a Boston cream pie banana pudding. Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, except on Sundays, when the hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
