The City Market Square — Restaurant in Roanoke

I guess if I had never been in the old market building I would think this place is great. Sadly I used to frequent the old market building, it had real personality, it had many more choices for food and dessert. It was a social meeting place that you could go to daily and meet up with other friends. Those days are gone and what we have now is a very sanatized and steril environment. Instutuonal hospital like environment. I don't think I have been in there yet when there were than a handful of people. Very limited food choices and some of it's good. It will never be what it was, the city government successfully ran off all those that worked so hard to make the market a neat place to hang out and eat. Old market...

We visited on a Tuesday, so obviously not much to do. The stand that sells Jamaican food was delicious, and the workers are very helpful and friendly. Strongly recommend the Jerk Chicken!

There are some shops surrounding the market that sell local goods but nothing amazing. Not worth driving out of your way. If you've been to Chelsea Market (NYC) or Reading Terminal Market (Philly), this feels like a food court. Not worth driving put of your way for, but good for a rest stop...

The last time I was here, it hadnt been renovated so the floors were slick from years of greasy cooking, smelled of all the homeless people that would sit inside all day and pee in the floor. Looks amazing now, so clean and inside looks updated and new with the same old school traditional roanoke brick appearance on the outside. If only they could do something about the homeless people coming around asking for money repeatedly as...