Checking out a fish market is one way to ensure you wake up quickly. Jerez’s Mercado Central de Abastos is almost wholly given over to fish sellers and, from the piles of wriggling gambas to the huge chunks of blood red tuna from Barbate an hour south, there is no escaping the overwhelming produce of the sea.
The market, on Calle Doña Blanca in the historic centre of Jerez, dates from 1885, and is one of the oldest food markets in the province of Cadiz.
Today the building is divided into three areas: meat, fish and fruit and vegetables.
Hard to work out the pricing on some of the fish like thesehake...
plenty of cousins to the Cornish sardine...
and no amount of fresh prawns...
unusual presentation of these skinned hake...
and some good sized tuna steaks on offer...
prepared cuttlefish, maybe these came from Newlyn?...
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| plenty of hake on offer |
I’ve never been known for my love of fish and seafood, and I was sprinting for the vegetable market after a scant ten minutes exploring the fish stalls. (I learnt a lot, and now I need never return to that section.)
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