Danilovsky Market
The Danilovsky Market, widely considered a pair with the Izmailovsky Market, is both smaller and geared toward a more local clientele. Rather than a chaotic collection of vendors, The Danilovsky Market is a well-organized, aesthetically cohesive product of gentrification. This market is known for its selection of vendors selling organic foods, including meats, poultry, fruits, vegetables and nuts, as well as food representing all kinds of international cuisine.
In recent years, stalls that resemble cafes have been added to the market. Between taste-tests, shoppers at Danilovsky now have dining options as well. "Kroupes Bar," a "Real Cypriot and Greek" cuisine cafe, is known for its meat and vegetable Cypriot pies, while "Dagestanskaya Lavka" brings the food of the Caucases to Moscow in the form of meat, cheese, herb-pumpkin pies and dumplings. The Danilovsky market is a more enclosed, more reliable market that, it seems, partially retains the spirit of the Russian open market by putting food out, encouraging tasting, and collecting lots of varied cuisines in one, compact place, but loses some of the color confusion that is integral Moscow's open market history.
The Danilovsky market is a type of modern SimCity much like Izmailovsky. It has interior streets and fixed vendors, as well as indoor portions and a variety of ethnic foods which creates a more culturally diverse simulacrum of a city. It's local clientele as well as its more every-day merchandise, including organic groceries, marks a diversion from the more tourist oriented Izmailovsky Market, closing some of the distance between inside the market and outside - between the daily lives of the clientele and their experience in the market. There is less travelling from a distance to get to the market and perhaps as a result more of a fluid border between the SimCity and the city at large.