Huddersfield Market has occupied the area around the Queensgate Market Hall since the Victorian era, and the indoor market building — a brutalist structure from 1970, contentious but striking — still houses a proper working market with butchers, fishmongers, greengrocers, and a range of food stalls that reflect the town's demographics accurately. This is not a gentrified food market; it is where people actually shop.
The outdoor market runs on several days a week in the surrounding streets and is better for casual eating: hot pies and mushy peas, the Yorkshire tradition that predates the gastropub by several centuries. A proper market pie — short-crust pastry, minced beef or pork, served with a ladle of bright green mushy peas — is one of the best cheap meals in the north of England and almost impossible to find outside its natural habitat. The Huddersfield market is one of the places where the natural habitat is intact.
The market also carries good local cheese — Yorkshire varieties including Wensleydale and Swaledale — and, given the Pakistani community, exceptional spice stalls and Asian grocery. It is a better ethnographic survey of the town than anything in a visitor centre.