Faneuil Hall Marketplace
About
Faneuil Hall Marketplace is a historic festival marketplace at the heart of Boston’s downtown waterfront, spread across three restored 19th-century buildings around cobblestone promenades. Shops sell unique gifts, and restaurants and food stalls serve everything from fresh seafood to snacks and desserts. Street performers draw crowds on the cobblestones, and the marketplace bills itself as the place to start for visitors looking for things to do in Boston.
At its center is Quincy Market, a long colonnaded hall that the marketplace calls the largest and oldest food hall in the country, lined with counters run by local food operators. The marketplace sits beside historic Faneuil Hall itself, a meeting hall dating to the 1700s. Its 1970s revival as a festival marketplace became a model for urban retail districts across the US, and it continues to host signature events throughout the year.
What to Know
- More than 80 businesses operate in the marketplace.
- Durgin-Park, the marketplace’s first restaurant, opened in 1826.
- Pop-up vendors can apply to set up shop in the marketplace.
- Faneuil Hall is an official stop on the Freedom Trail.
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