Altrincham Market ★ 4.6
Greater Manchester's pioneering food market hall in Altrincham, model for the city's later halls. Eighteen traders, communal seating, the kids' shift is loud.
Eccles Market is a food market in Salford, Manchester.
Lancashire's Eccles market square in Salford, four miles west of Manchester. Pie and Eccles-cake stalls keep the bake tradition alive on weekdays.
Address: Town Hall Square, Eccles, Salford M30 0NS, Manchester
Greater Manchester's pioneering food market hall in Altrincham, model for the city's later halls. Eighteen traders, communal seating, the kids' shift is loud.
Hilltop market on Stockport Plaza, eight miles south of Manchester. Forty stalls, Sunday vinyl-and-vintage; Eastern European food vans run weekends.
GRUB-curated weekly market that opened November 2025 at the historic Campfield campus in St John's. Twelve high-quality food stalls plus an indoor Euro-style food hall with oysters, tapas, sourdough, cheese, sushi, charcuterie, and a European wine bar.
Three-hundred-stall European Christmas market across ten sites in Manchester from Albert Square to Cathedral Gardens. Albert Square returned in 2025 after a five-year break, with a 50-metre Ferris wheel and a Taste of Christmas chalet village running into early January.
Monthly Manchester market on Ancoats' Cutting Room Square. Fifty traders: hot food, cheese, local crafts; runs the last Saturday of the month all year round.
Manchester's restored 1857 Smithfield Market hall, reopened 2017. Twelve vendors including Honest Crust pizza, Tender Cow burgers and Reserve wine bar.
Greater Manchester's pioneering food market hall in Altrincham, model for the city's later halls. Eighteen traders, communal seating, the kids' shift is loud.