Home to the Middle East's largest aquarium, Al Qana is a waterfront lifestyle and entertainment destination along the Khor Al Maqta canal in the Rabdan area of Abu Dhabi. Opened in 2021 and stretching some 2.4 kilometres along the water, it was developed as an integrated open-air destination blending dining, leisure and attractions around a canal-side promenade. The National Aquarium is its anchor attraction, spread across ten themed zones with more than 46,000 marine animals and the longest u.....

Stretching 1.8 kilometres along the south bank of Dubai Creek, Al Seef is a waterfront shopping and dining district developed by Meraas beside the historic Al Fahidi neighbourhood. Completed in 2017, the pedestrianised promenade was designed to tell the story of Dubai's transformation, splitting into two distinct halves along the water. The heritage zone recreates the look of old Dubai, with low coral-and-gypsum buildings, wind towers and narrow lanes housing a traditional souk, craft stalls, .....

The Albert Cuyp Market is the largest and best-known street market in the Netherlands, a long, bustling ribbon of stalls running down the Albert Cuyp Street in the lively De Pijp quarter of Amsterdam. Six days a week it fills with traders selling everything from fresh fish and cheese to flowers, fabrics, clothing and the irresistible smell of freshly made stroopwafels. The market was established in 1905, when the growing working-class district of De Pijp needed a place to shop, and it quickly b.....

Wheels of golden Gouda stacked from floor to ceiling greet visitors to the Amsterdam Cheese Company, a shop on the busy Kalverstraat devoted to the most famous of Dutch products. Part store, part tasting room, it lets visitors sample dozens of varieties before choosing which to take home, turning a simple purchase into an enjoyable introduction to Dutch cheese. Cheese lies at the very heart of Dutch food culture, and the Netherlands has been a great cheesemaking and trading nation for centuries.....

Arundel Emporium is an independent indoor market and community arts space at 14-16 Matilda Street in Sheffield city centre, between The Moor and Eyre Street. Located on the first floor above the Network music venue, it was created as a lively creative hub where the local community can gather, shop, socialise, study, eat, and drink. The emporium brings together a range of independent vendors and stalls - covering vintage, books, jewellery, fashion, and more - alongside a fully licensed bar servi.....

Opened in April 2012 on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in the Bang Kho Laem district of southern Bangkok, ASIATIQUE The Riverfront is one of the largest open-air shopping and entertainment complexes in Thailand and combines a traditional Thai night market with substantial dining, entertainment and retail components. The complex occupies the converted former waterfront site of the East Asiatic Company, a major Danish trading firm whose Bangkok warehouses had occupied the site continuou.....

A Grade II-listed former coal-fired power station on the south bank of the Thames, Battersea Power Station reopened in 2022 as a shopping, dining and leisure destination in the Nine Elms district of London. The brick building was raised in two phases from the 1930s, its four white chimneys becoming one of the most recognisable shapes on the city's skyline before the plant was decommissioned in 1983. It stood derelict for decades, familiar from film and album artwork, until a major regeneration.....

Opened as a roughly GBP 7 million conversion of a disused warehouse, Blackstock Market is a 60,000-square-foot food and entertainment complex on Blackstock Street in Liverpool, off Vauxhall Road. It was created by the brothers behind the Hot Water Comedy Club, and serves as that club's home across several theatre spaces, including a purpose-built auditorium seating around 590. The venue combines comedy and live music with one of the city's largest food markets, gathering eight or so independent.....

The first Boxpark to open outside London, Boxpark Liverpool is an indoor street-food market, bar and events space in the Canning Hall at Cains Brewery Village, in the Baltic Triangle. It follows the chain's established formula of independent food traders, multiple bars and a busy events calendar, across around 21,000 square feet plus a large outdoor terrace. A rotating line-up of around eight kitchens covers everything from smash burgers and pizza to Korean and Middle Eastern food, with vegetar.....

The morning fruit-and-vegetable market on Campo de Fiori is one of the most famous in Rome, spreading across a long rectangular square in the heart of the historic centre. The square sits in a dense knot of small streets between Piazza Navona and the Tiber, and has hosted a market on most mornings of the week since the late nineteenth century. The name, the Field of Flowers, evokes the meadow that occupied the space before the great works of Pope Sixtus IV in the late fifteenth century turned i.....