The French Market is at the end of Decatur Street. It's a large covered market and a good place to get cheap souvenirs, especially on Saturday when there are even more stalls.

It has all the usual souvenir stuff--T-shirts, voodoo dolls, stuffed alligator heads, beads--but at cheaper prices than the souvenir shops. It also has some surprisingly good and original craft stalls that don't just sell the usual tat, but also silver jewelry at bargain prices.

There's a food market nearby where you can get all the usual New Orleans hot sauces and spices at cheaper prices than in the shops. Theres are also fresh fruit and vegetable stalls.

The French Market is a flea market with more of the same junk you see in all the shops all over the French Quarter. Beads, t-shirts, baseball hats, cheap ties etc. I did find a cute reasonably priced pin. Mostly, the prices are nothing great. In fact some were just outrageous - like for a winter hat and gloves.

I love the French Market. They have all kinds of great things there. Get a start on your Christmas Shopping.

All kinds of cooking supplies and cookbooks and much less expensive than Bourbon Street shops.

T-shirts, hats, dolls, sunglasses and beads.

They don't bargain as things are all priced but still I find the prices are very good.

Go early [8 am] to the French Market. Walk through the narrow aisles, rub shoulders with the locals, see [and buy] beautiful fresh fruit, garlic braids, amazing creole and cajun spice packages, fresh crop pecans, and best of all--beautiful fresh seafood. My last stop of any trip to NOLA is to the French Market for seafood, packed in ice, ready to fly home with me. It is a nice treat to share with your homebound spouse or significant other--a fresh seafood dinner. The shrimp I bought on Tuesday were less than an hour off the boat, the crabs were already cooked. They had prawns the size of your hand too. Fresh Key Limes, Georgia peaches the size of two fists--needless to say, if you like to cook, or just like to eat, the French Market is always a treat. At 10 am the Flea Market part opens--Ts-hirt heaven, of course, but there are always a couple of good buys to be had, and one or two 'artisans' of either jewelry or artwork or quilts as well. It is fun and colorful, and off the beaten 'Bourbon St.' track a little bit.