These Are The Newest Food Halls You Need To Visit

Food halls have enjoyed a popular resurgence in popular food culture. While places like Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market, Seattle's Pikes Place Market and San Francisco's Ferry Building have long been the flag bearers for US food halls, new players are redefining the category. Here is a look at new food halls that you may not have heard about, but need to visit immediately.

Image Credit: Ponce City Market

Ponce City Market is a still-evolving, massive adaptive re-use of a former Sears distribution center on Atlanta’s Eastside. The development team behind Ponce City Market also owns the famous Chelsea Market in NYC. The entire complex combines specialty retail, chic apartments, office space, apartments with full-service restaurants and food stalls.

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Central Food Hall is the culinary gathering space carved out inside Ponce City Market. Here, you’ll find chef-led, dine-in restaurants from three James Beard Award-winning chefs and grab-and-go market stalls from emerging chefs and purveyors. Patrons choose from a wide selection of regional fare to global cuisines, along with items from a curated market from local artisans producing fresh breads, cheeses and more.

Image Credit: Ponce City Market

Ponce City Market is a complex that is full of character – it’s the largest brick structure in the Southeast – which along with nearby development and infrastructure projects (like direct access to Atlanta Beltline’s Eastside trail) has helped to breath life into the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood.