Westwego Farmers & Fisheries Market

The Shrimp Lot sits next door, and that's the point — this market anchors where the boats still tie up. Westwego fed New Orleans from the water for generations. By the 1940s, five seafood processors employed 567 people in a town of 5,000. That ratio tells you what mattered. The industry thinned, but the infrastructure held, and now the West Bank's farmers and fishermen share the same asphalt on Saturday mornings. Produce stalls run next to coolers of Gulf catch. Homemade preserves sit beside whatever came off the boats that week. The vendors are the people who grew it or pulled it from the water. The crowds peak early Saturday — that's when selection is widest and the shrimp hasn't been sitting. This is a working market, not a curated one. Bring a cooler if you're buying seafood. Parking is free. The reason to go is the same reason Westwego exists: the water still produces, and someone here will sell you what it gave up.