Free Range Reviews

First time there and loved the fare, people and energy.

This local historical market should be on your radar.

You got some good quality meat there but that's it.

Small space but still a good place to get fresh food and flowers

Fun place to walk around and see some nice things. I absolutely loved it

Wide variety of great things, nice folks, good prices!

I love to go to Eastern Market. The vendors are great. All types of unique finds. Fresh produce, flowers and food to eat. Being going there for over 30 years

The Market Lunch has very good fish (i.e. Whiting, Porgies and Haddock) and chips sandwiches and platters at reasonable prices. My sister bought blood oranges from the two of the fruit and vegetable vendors. She said that they were delicious. I also bought spinach and feta empanadas and they were really good.

Small farmers market of fresh fruit, vegetables and some crafts. Inside are about a dozen deli places with fresh meats, smoked goods and ready-to-eat savoury foods. On the exterior are coffee shops and speciality stores (including a chocolate shop).

Can get busy around brunch (2pm) especially the shops near Penn Av. A great gem for the area.

Great place...Lots of different foods, merchandise. People are friendly

Great spot in DC for walking, coffee, meeting friends... easy walk to The Mall

Fresh fruits and veggies for great prices and yes they do accept WIC checks

This is one of DCs historical places to visit. I've been going since I was a little girl. One of my favorite places in the world.

I come through Eastern Market almost every day. There are a variety of stores to choose from; then you also have the option of going to the markets where the meats and vegetables are so fresh. The bakery is everything. Go outside and the street vendors have almost anything you need. It's an experience that everyone should enjoy.

I love going there to get my meats. It's fresh and the prices are GREAT!!! I'll never spend my hard earned dollars on that overpriced meat in a grocery store again!!!!

I am used to the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia it's yummy Eastern Market to be very small

Every Thursday Eastern Market open the door for social tango called "milonga" , where you can learn dance tango since 7:00pm to 9:00pm before milonga. DANCE TANGO IS HELTHY too.

Great place to go on the weekend. Crafts, produce, food, and art. Check out the bookstore while you're there!

Fun place to walk around, with some unique or otherwise hard to find items.

I did not want to leave. I had fun just sitting there.
Enjoying the site .It is so much to say.

Great vendors inside with the freshest Everything! Meat egg potato bricks! Pork veggie and chicken dumplings near the best breads anywhere!

I m not sure if the indoor portion is open right now, but we walked through the portion that is outdoors, since it was such a nice day. They have food vendors, as well as clothes/nic nacs, etc. Nice little area to spend maybe 30 mins.

Nice outdoor market. A bit small hopefully there are more vendors in the summer time. The indoor market has really good food. A tasty bakery and a few pricey butcher shops. A nice diversion for a lazy Saturday.

Such a fun experience! Great for any art pieces you want or fresh produce! Definitely check out the girl who sells used book crafts and the many watercolor artists!

Outside vendors are fun but you never know who is going to be there. Inside the historic building smells like old meat and the bakery is just sad.

I love to come here on my weekends! I enjoy the fresh produce and the merchants. I have found amazing soaps here, as well as vegetables! I love coming on a sunny day and walking around the market. The people watching and the large varieties of food to eat, is perfect on a nice weekend day!

Such a cool little D.C. spot to spend time. Beautiful old architecture, and very relaxed.

Nice market with good selection of meats etc. Not as big as one might expect, but plenty of stalls outside, too.

Not what it used to be. It feels empty and gentrified. The flea market is no more. Scattered vendors trying to hold together this beloved DC landmark can't do enough to replicate the feeling of the old market.

An ideal place to visit on the weekend! A true market with vendors from all over, selling goods and foods from around the world. Last time I went, a man was selling Greek olives from his family's vineyard in Greece, and there was fresh produce from right around the DC area. Ditch conventional shops and stores, and spend part of your day among this multicultural community.

Not what it was 18 years ago. We use to buy the most gorgeous florist worthy wholesale flowers here. During my last visit, some of the vendors were rude, presumptious, and stuffy with mediocre offerings. I am a native Washingtonian. I hate when people bring their very narrow cultural perspectives to DC. That is just not who we (DC) are. We are diverse, inclusive, educated, candid, proud, and fun.

Make sure you go find Dimitri Olive Oil! It's amazing!

I've been here many times to this historic Sunday market but I'm always unimpressed. The artsy feels forced, and art itself is expensive. Even the antique furniture is exorbitantly priced. The indoor food market is nice enough, but you can find the same things at all the local farmers markets in the DC area for cheaper.

Variety, fresh food, reasonable prices. A real treat.

They have everything you need to make wonderful dishes!

A fantastically diverse market that is especially worth a visit on weekends when the flea market is running next door. The prices can be high, but the quality is truly stellar - it's so fun to buy freshly made pastas, meat that is virtually still mooing, and vegetables grown just a few miles away. I also love all the local artisans in the section outdoors - it's wonderful to see DC-based artists getting so much business and appreciation. The little diner inside the market serves great BBQ and crab cake sandwiches, if you're willing to wait in line. There are a couple of other tasty food options outdoors, too - try the fresh pretzels! Overall, the atmosphere is festive and fun - there's often live music or other entertainers, and the whole neighborhood is buzzing with energy. It's really the perfect place to spend an afternoon!

Well organized during the Pandemic. Park around the block. Enjoy your time

Love this place!!!A hidden gem among the locals. From the outside and the neighborhood you wouldn't know this place exist. Quality meat at the vendor. Crab cakes are excellent.

Such an amazing place on the Hill! Love to walk around, talk to vendors, people watch.

I went to see my wife's stores. I found 2 of them. Guess I can be maybe a chance. I live 1 hour drive, 2 hours metro y bus

The quality of the foods is always great and i can only get the things i love from here.

Love this place! I can get everything I need, fresh!

So, this is my first time visiting Eastern Market. It has a lot to offer at both the outside and inside markets. Outside, you ll find vendors selling handmade soaps, jewelry, other crafts, fruits, and vegetables. Inside, you ll find meat and seafood vendors, restaurant(s), bakery, and fruit stands. I think this is a great place to visit in the SE area. It shows a different flavor of DC. I believe it s only open on the weekend. It s worth a visit. These pics are from the inside market. Enjoy!

Great and helpful vendors in a fantastic setting. The outdoor market has real dc flavor and the indoor vendors are institutions. Where else can you get a whole pig on a couple of hours notice?

Wish I had a place like this in my neighborhood. Great selection of fresh, local foods from the numerous vendors. This is an awesome place to have in your community.

Great variety of indoor and outdoor booths - the perfect place to find picnic supplies and amazing churros

Love this place, I pop in here for ingredients every day and love the market during the weekends. All kinds of heirloom tomatoes!

This is nowhere near as big or diverse as Cleveland's West Side Market. A few places to buy food, but nowhere comfortable to sit to eat it. We bought lunch and snacks from one vendor and she wasn't particularly friendly. The neighborhood however is great, with lots of places where we could have (and should have) had a nice lunch.

Everyone was pleasant fresh cut meats and flowers were plentiful.

I love too go over too Easter Market.... I've been going over there for years. My mother use to take me to Easter Market as a child.... My experience is always wonderful. It's always awesome too see some familiar faces and hopefully everyone is able to come back and set up their their booths and their stands

Interesting place to go and check out. I am not local so I didn't purchase anything but I like going to visit the markets. Lots of food inside with interesting crafts and wares on the exterior. Reminded me of a market I once visited in Sardenia. Today the had muscians outside playing Irish gigs.

Tried the brick sandwich for the first time. Delish! Toast, potatoes, egg, cheese and bacon...can't miss with this. Only drawback is cash only but they do have an ATM on the premises. So many small areas to check out....fruit, meats, cheeses, produce, baked goods, poultry and flowers. A one stop shopping experiencing for an indoor farmer's market.

Great variety of options, parking a challenge, take Eastern Market Metro. Beautiful produce and natural soaps and incense...Spanish food, African, flowers, total eye candy, Meat, veggies ! Reasonable prices.

Always love what they have. Great food, art, and flowers

Pleasant market area to visit. Vendors had a good selection of meats, seafoods, and produce as well as ready to eat and quickserve foods. One vendor had pig ears, feet, and chitterlings. Pleasant vibe both inside and outside. With a visit.

Really fun place to go on the weekend. I love the artists, especially the recyclers! We had a great breakfast of blueberry buckwheat pancakes in the market itself: very filling. You will want 3, but you can probably only eat 2. Cash only at the counter!

Eastern Market you need to go up there and just walk all through this a nice area and you can find just about everything you looking for up in there

I was looking for a place to grab an early breakfast after my morning run and this fit the bill perfectly. Cute farmers and flea market, with a good variety of produce, prepared foods and other gifts/flea market items. The breakfast burrito I tried was excellent.

Everything fresh and tasty. We did the food tour and thus were able to sample something from each vendor. I will definitely come back just to shop.

One of our favorite places in DC, near Capital Hill. Market Luncheon has freshly fixed fish & Crabcakes breakfasts, cooked to order right there for Brunch on Saturdays. It's worth the wait in a long line, and can sit down indoors to eat. Other markets include A bakery, Fresh Fish markets, and Deli Meats & Select Cheeses, And fresh Flowers Markets.

Go on the weekends for the farmers market! Such great produce and local goods!

Market Lunch is one of the best seafood eatery (crabcakes delicious) in the DMV

I'm from Chicago and I can say I absolutely love the feel of this area. You have multiple deli's and a bakery inside plus different vendors might sell their wares outside during the week. Come here to support local business and pick up some neat art.

I got 6 beets the size of my head for $4 and ate a free slice of a sweet, tart pear.

I've been going to this place for years. I usually get the sausage brick. The last time I went I got the bacon cheddar sandwich which was good too.

Great place to find exotic food, for example alligator sausage and more, also for the lack of better word regular food. I am a big fan on supporting small businesses. I would rather pay a tad extra and not go to corporate America

A short walk from the hustle and bustle of the touristy areas of DC will bring you to what DC is all about. Sundays are when you want to show up and experience the full flavor of Eastern Market. All the small vendors have their tents up selling their wares along with great in season fruits and veggies.

The local flavor is the draw here. You'll really get a great sense of the people and the community.

They have all.kinds of fresh produce and delicatessen like beef pastrami and roast beef. They even have chicken feet! It's a long building with doors to the outside on both sides. And they have a food.bar selling crabcakes, haddock and rock fish sandwiches, iced tea, French fries which we found all very good.

Quite underwhelming given all we'd heard about this place. Mostly meat purveyors and the restaurant there closes at 1pm (big frowney face). Worth stopping by on Saturday for the flee market.

Lots of great market vendors inside, and a fun farmers market/ craft market on Saturday and Sundays. The cheese monger is a must, just be prepared to spend half your paycheck on delicious savory morsels of cheese.

Old beautiful market in Capital Hil...I'm glad I was on the fire crews that saved this jewel.

A fine small market. Haven't been there in a few years and it seems to have shrunk significantly

Lovely indoor market accompanied by year round outdoor weekend Farmers Market and flea market. Also outdoor vendors on Tuesdays.

Lots of craft booth on the street on Weekends, a long with farm stands and food booths. Inside meat markets, bakery, produce, restaurant, gyoza stand and more. Large room at end with live music on weekends. Lively, fun, casual, family friendly.

A variety of products, many hand made and local products, great grocery shops.

A little small but that may be due to Covid-19. Nice vendors, decent prices.

Great atmosphere. I love walking through the market and getting a pastry at the bakery inside. I usually bring friends here when they visit from out of town. One day I'll come and buy some of the fresh meat or fish from the butchers.

It's fine. Good for meat shopping and there are some cool artists but it's not going to knock your socks off. Just one ready to eat breakfast/lunch place.