Copley Square Farmers Market

The Copley Square Farmers Market is Boston's largest and busiest market, held in Back Bay's Copley Square and run by Mass Farmers Markets, a nonprofit that supports locally grown food. More than 30 Massachusetts farmers and food producers sell produce, meats, baked goods, ready-to-eat meals, and other local products, and the market runs twice weekly. SNAP shoppers are automatically in the Healthy Incentives Program, which can put fruit and vegetable spending back on an EBT card. Signature stalls include Red's Best daily catch, Bakey Babka's kosher babkas and challahs, Beacon Hill Bakery's Polish paczki, Guru The Caterer's halal Indian food, and SamosaMan's African samosas.

Our take: Start with Red's Best for fish or the bakeries for babka and paczki, then pick up a hot meal from Guru The Caterer or SamosaMan.