La Merced, Mexico City
The biggest market in Mexico City (excluding the Central de Abastos, which sells wholesale to businesses and vendors across the capital) is La Merced, which is famed for its food and selection of sweets, as well as for being a popular area for sex workers to congregate both day and night. Once an open-air market, it’s now a mostly-indoor arena filled to the brim with fresh produce and surrounded on all sides by colored tarps which protect the handful of outdoor stalls that are still in existence.
Mercado la Merced, Calle Rosario, Merced Balbuena, Centro, Mexico City, Mexico, +52 55 5522 7250