Tour Montreal's Jean-Talon Market

The market is open daily, year round in Little Italy.

Patisseries and restaurants line the entrance, like Wawel pâtisserie polonaise, a Polish pastry shop specializing in doughnuts.

Racine Petits Fruits has offered a variety of berries from Quebec since 1997.

Stray from the main walkway to discover the bounty at rows of colorful vegetable stalls.

Beautiful stacks of leeks and boxes of bright eggplants line the perimeter of a corner stand.

Crates are filled with lettuce, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes and onions.

Garlic hangs from many stalls, as it does in kitchens at many of the city's restaurants.

Vibrant red peppers abound.

One vendor offers a dozen types of apples, from Empire to McIntosh.

Signs indicate which products are from Quebec, including celery, Brussels, radishes and more.

Les Jardins Milherbes offers organic produce, including onions, garlic, tomatoes, peppers and more.

Les Jardins Milherbes even offers tasting notes and preparation suggestions.

The corner stand has a variety of gourds in the fall.

Small green gourds show the autumn harvest.

Moïse et Jacques L'Écuyer has offered fresh fruits and vegetables for 60 years.

In autumn, onions, potatoes, peppers and more vegetables are beautifully displayed.

Artichokes from Quebec are displayed in baskets.

Ferme J.P. Desgroseillers has offered potatoes, corn and vegetables for three generations.

A robust stall in the main thoroughfare offers samples of all its fruit and vegetables on elevated plates.

The stand displays tons of oranges, tomatoes, avocados and many more vegetables.

André et Dominic Palardy SENC offers a variety of colorful peppers.

Ferme Matthews offers a variety of colored cabbages, including these Romanesco heads.

Les Jardins Sauvages offers wild mushrooms and foraged foods.

Also find fresh cantaloupes from Quebec.

Racks of peppers and garlic line the aisles.

Brick and mortar businesses like Chez Louis back up to the edges of the market with more produce and gourmet goods.

Pineapples, or ananas, are abundant at Chez Louis.

Le Capitaine brings duck, goose, guinea fowl, hen, quail and turkey eggs. Across the aisle, Klein Geno offers all kinds of hen's eggs,

Canneberge is a stall dedicated to cranberries, with fresh cranberry juice flowing.

Like maple, cranberry is used in all kinds of goods here, as well as lavender.

The fromagerie, "qui lait cru !?!", or "which raw milk?" curates cheeses from Quebec and Europe.

Sheep, goat and cow's milk cheeses are labeled by type and origin.

Le Ryad Patisseries presents Moroccan sweets in the middle of the market, in front of and below open seating.

Dry cakes stuffed with dates and sesame or pistachio are displayed with other pastries.

Cream-filled tartlets and pistachio-filled pastries are among the options.

Les Vergers Girard offers a variety of maple products and gifts across from its apples and produce.

Olive & Olives offers an array of olive oils and gourmet goods next to the fromagerie.

Les Cochons tout ronds is a pork butcher, offering sausage, charcuterie and cured pork.

Porcmeilleur butchers pork from a family farm in Ste-Madeleine, Montérégie, a village in Quebec.

Among the prepared food vendors, Balkani offers artisan sausage and other deli items, and Havre-aux-Glaces makes ice cream with maple from its own grove.

Spécialités de Belgique offers little waffles.

Tents behind the market offer covered shopping, and the perimeter is protected from the weather with temporary walls in the winter.

Market visitors brave the rain for fresh goods.

Le Potager Mont-Rouge fills one tent with fall gourds, from over-sized, misshapen pumpkins, to multicolored corn.

Find gourds of all shapes and sizes in the fall.

There are more than 100 vendors inside the market, which is open-air from April to the first frosts each year.

Librairie Gourmande offers cookbooks and food-focused books and gifts next to the entrance or exit.

The market is surrounded by brick and mortar restaurants and stores like one of five La fromagerie Hamel locations in the city.