First, the booths are not sized to produce the necessary amount of food when Quincy Market is jam-packed. Outside of the issues that all food and beverage establishments are facing - escalating prices of goods, labor shortage, increased wages - there are specific conditions at Quincy Market that impact the quality of the food. Is there a commercial incentive or the will to do so? I’m not sure… The only solution is to completely reimagine it, drawing from contemporary and successful models, to make it a destination for both tourists and locals.
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Quincy Market, like movie theaters and airports, relies on the captive consumers: tourists herded into its cavernous and chaotic hall as part of their itinerary. Time Out Market is today’s Quincy Market - creative, modern, and well-curated. Food courts with fast food chains have been replaced by food halls with inventive local vendors. While Quincy Market was a great alternative to fast food chains and served local specialties to tourists, it remains in the past. What the tourists didn’t know was that whatever food didn’t sell at the end of the night got ground up, mixed with breadcrumbs, and became stuffing for the stuffed scrod.
Their flagship dishes then were scallops wrapped in bacon and stuffed scrod. I worked at when I was in high school around 1989. Carol Todreas, Faneuil Hall Marketplace’s director of public relations and assistant to the development director during the 1970s overhaul No one now seems to care, and energies have turned toward the Seaport which is certainly entertaining but not in the same historical and unique manner that Faneuil Hall Marketplace was and could be again with care. The City of Boston has done nothing and so the tenants are uninspired and tired. Sadly it fell apart when, owing to its uber success, it was bought by a developer who let it run without management and the tender, love, and care that any retail center needs to survive. It became a major tourist attraction, although initially conceived as a market for Bostonians. There were no chains and every morsel was fresh, original, and delicious. Most of the original tenants came from the wholesale Boston food market. When the Faneuil Hall Marketplace re-opened in 1976 following an extensive redevelopment, Quincy Market, the center building of the three at the marketplace, had the very best food attracting thousands of people each week. Have more thoughts on this? Keep the conversation going on Eater’s Facebook page. (In one case, anonymity was granted to a respondent to protect job security.)
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Read on to find answers from diners who have known the market for decades, plus the full response from the market’s current owner, Ashkenazy Acquisition. In last weekend’s newsletter, Eater asked readers to submit their theories on why and how Quincy Market became the avoid-at-all-costs food hall that it is today.
The market’s owners, on the other hand, have a different view: “With millions of visitors passing through Faneuil Hall each year, it is inevitable that there will be a few patrons who are not satisfied with the selection of vendors or their offerings, as with any major attraction,” a spokesperson tells Eater. The sordid tale confirmed what many residents already think: When it comes to the food, Quincy Market flops. There was an apology.īut for many Bostonians, a Quincy Market food vendor falling short was not a surprise. In the aftermath of the initial story, there was outrage. One week ago, Eater published a story about two Houston tourists who walked into Quincy Market and ordered a cold lobster roll with crawfish tails tucked inside.
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