It helps get to an eclectic bunch of wares more suitable to middle class folks who don't want or need the upper middle sophistication found at Calgary Farmer's Market.
Only a few of the stalls are excellent:
1. At the Turkish food stall, the lamb shank and other full meals excellent value in taste, nutrition and size
2. MK Quilting had some excellent work that would wonderfully adorn any wall or piece of sizable furniture, or table top. But they've moved out.
3. One of the sausage shops that promotes top quality cuts and such is for real. I forget the name, but if you tour the place, you can spot it right beside one of the joined building arches.
But many of the rest are out and out dogs:
3. one of the jam vendors is blatantly pushing inferior tasteless stuff
4. Simple Simon pies are for simpletons, because the ingredients are just not all that yummy, and some as flat as a pancake. Not there at all!
5. One leather working shop is chinzy and of poor quality
6. At least one meat shop is pretending to be a butcher shop, and is pulling a fast one on customers. Caveat emptor.
I don't go there often anymore because the over-all quality just isn't there. But the Turkish lamb shank meal is worth returning to. Maybe some day this market will get an upgrade.