Furness FishMarkets

Les Salisbury began potting shrimp as a boy on Morecambe Bay before opening this stall at Borough Market in 1998. Furness Fish Markets still centres on that original product: shrimp caught in the bay, boiled with spices and sealed under butter in small pots, alongside day-boat fish landed from Cornwall to the Shetland Islands and delivered to the stall within twelve hours of catch. The counter at 6 Southwark Street sits within the market's covered arcade, trading Tuesday to Saturday and a shorter Sunday session, closed Mondays. Jamie Oliver named the stall among the market's stalwarts in his cookbook Jamie's Kitchen. Salisbury's family still run the operation, buying oysters and seasonal seafood alongside the shrimp and smoked fish that first built the business's name among London's fishmongers and market traders.