It’s more than a market – it’s a happening!
The Downtown Fullerton Market will continue weekly from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays at the Downtown Plaza, 125 E. Wilshire Ave., until Aug. 31.
Visit for the live entertainment as well as family and children’s activities. Bands change weekly and begin at 6:30 p.m. at the beer-wine garden hosted by the adjoining Fullerton Museum Center, which remains open for the evening.
Mediterranean is my favorite cuisine, so my first stop during a recent visit was Baba Foods, which boasts an amazing variety of pita chips, including cinnamon-sugar, lemon pepper, garlic and herbs de Provence, za’atar and sea salt. It sells falafel, hummus in a dizzying array of flavors, including classic, roasted garlic and roasted sweet bell pepper, as well as handmade baklava.
At Elisa Marie Baking a sign boasts “third-place brownies” – at the OC Fair, I learn. The previous year her cherry-lavender jam took first place, Elisa tells me.
“I’ve been baking since I was 3,” she said. “There are pictures of me baking biscuits with my mom.”
Elisa worked as a corporate pastry chef in Chicago. “When the pandemic hit, I couldn’t get work, so my husband encouraged me to start baking for myself. Now we’re in five retail locations, including the Anaheim Marriott and The Butchery, besides the markets.”
Galaxy Toffee next door sells cookies, but the toffee must be popular because it was sold out by the time I arrived at 5:30.
I can’t help noticing a crystals and chakra balancing booth next to one for the Fullerton Library. This is quite the eclectic market!
The busiest stand was Sunny Cal Farms from Fresno with a wide variety of stone fruits, including white and yellow peaches and at least five varieties of plums and pluots (plum-apricot hybrids), my favorite being Red Beauty.
Their most popular summer fruit, they said, is their cherrums, a cherry-plum combination that tastes sweet with a tang of plum. The…
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