At Reading Terminal Market, you’ll find 75 local, family-owned shops selling everything from meat, seafood and produce to jewelry, art, and a smorgasbord of ethnic food options.
Kamal’s has been serving Mediterranean at the market since 1981.
Specialties include the spinach pie, shawarmas, hummus, baba ghanoush but the homemade falafel is the top seller.
They also make smoothies, fresh juices and desserts, including baklava.
Their newest addition is scratch-made Dubai chocolate bars, with pistachio and shredded wheat inside.
Reading Terminal Market first opened its door in 1893 inside what is now a National Historic Landmark building. The market itself has been named one of the 10 Great Public Spaces in the entire country, with 100 thousand visitors in any given week.
Mickey Straff of Washington Square says his father started taking him to Bassett’s Ice Cream when he was just 4 years old. He’s now 85 and says he’s been coming ever since.
Bassett’s is one of the market’s original merchants while LUVH Food is one of the newer tenants. It is the market’s first fully vegan stand and, with it’s new expanded concept, it is the first vegan deli on the East Coast. There are vegan mayos, spices, meats and soups, and a new line of frozen meals designed for people on the strictest of diets.