Editing Dalston (section)

==Shopping==
[[File:ridley road market dalston 1.jpg|thumb|right|Dalston's Ridley Road market, October 2005]]
Established in the 1880s, [[Ridley Road Market]] is opposite Dalston Kingsland railway station.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ridley Road Market|url=http://www.hackney.gov.uk/ridley-road-market.htm|publisher=Hackney Council|access-date=10 October 2011}}</ref> Fruit and vegetables, some fairly exotic, are available. [[Halal]] butchers cluster around the high street end of the market.

Ridley Road market is reputedly the basis for the one found in the BBC's ''[[EastEnders]]''.<ref>Benjamin Hewitt, [http://hackneypost.co.uk/2009/03/19/ridley-road-market-the-real-eastenders/ "Ridley Road Market: The real EastEnders"], ''Hackney Post'', 19 March 2009.</ref> The Kingsland Shopping Centre (formerly Dalston Cross) is just south of Ridley Road Market.
Kingsland Road and the surrounding streets are home to an ever-growing number of boutiques, bars and cafés.