A Recipe For Magic
From its humble beginnings in 2013, Qout Market was created to attract, incubate, and highlight the incredible spectrum of the homegrown artisan community.
This of course was a siren song for curious visitors looking to try new things, meet new people, and soak it all in.
Since then, the market has become a national fixture on the social calendar for local and regional visitors alike.
The market normally takes place on Saturdays during the cooler months of the year in an urban location.
It was meant to form a microcosm of all the wonderful people and things that make Kuwait, Kuwait. Vendors are carefully chosen for their product and passion, but most importantly their character and commitment to this sense of community.
In 2014, we introduced two other initiatives aimed at empowering the local community. Read more about them here.
Qout Market combines local farm produce, artisanal food products, and crafts with a street food section aimed at highlighting the culinary diversity of our food community. Children have a dedicated section for enriching activities. Then of course, there’s the live music!
We seek to empower the small food producer, the craftsperson, the artist, the small-scale farmer, the musician looking for an audience, the up-and-coming chef and even the established chef looking for a creative outlet. By providing a quality platform and carefully curating the Qout Market vendor family we are challenging the local community to step forward with their best. Small businesses are provided the opportunity to perform at their finest and engage with a captive audience.
A coming together of such wonderful products and producers is a siren song for the curious. We work tirelessly to seek out the unique. By maintaining standards, we keep visitors hungry and curious. The market has become both a place to spend a sunny Saturday on a journey of discovery and a place to socialize. The way we see it, it is a recipe for magic.