Go with an open mind patience and sense of humor and you'll be fine. Go early and you'll get good deals and the freshest produce. If one of the vendors gives you a hard time give it right back and you'll get a better deal and maybe something for your trouble or he/she will tell you to get lost. No... More

Warning: KEEP YOURSELF AND YOUR MONEY AWAY FROM HAYMARKET especially if you have small children or self respect. While on a visit to Boston with our children, we stopped at Haymarket for some fruit. I was upset with the salesman and told him politely but was greeted by a barrage of loud cursing by him all while holding my child... More

Haymarket is a Boston tradition with its rows of tightly packed fruit and vegetable vendors hawking and shouting about how fresh their produce is. It's organized chaos with customers who shout right back and push their way through the crowd. And the produce is usually very ripe and at bargain prices. Use it in a couple of days or it... More

Haymarket is a seemingly endless line of stalls selling incredibly cheap produce at a frenetic pace at best. It is the only place where I have witnessed a vendor yell at a customer. The customer was handling some ginger root, which the vendor did not like, because apparently there were two kinds of ginger root, and the vendor yelled, "That's... More

Not a boutique "farmer's market," but a true old-style open-air marketplace. Wholesalers hawk fruits and veggies, and what's in season is fresh and demands to be eaten. Great atmosphere, great bargains. More

I've been living in Boston for over 15 years and the Haymarket is one place my fiance and I try to go every two weeks or so during the summer. It's an outdoors place so they don't exist in the winter. The Haymarket is located in area which is public accessible (HayMarket stop off the Orange Line) and a few... More

I love fresh produce and farmers markets but I choose to avoid Haymarket. I have been numberous times over the years and it is always incredibly cramped and so crowded that you can barely move, you just have to let yourself get shoved along by the crowds. The vendors are all incredibly rude too, shouting at anyone who dares to... More