GRUB Mayfield ★ 4.5
Rotating Manchester street-food market at the Mayfield depot. Fifteen-strong vendor lineup, pizza, burgers, banh mi, vegan; line-up changes each weekend.
Manchester Christmas Markets is a food market in Deansgate, Manchester.
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.
Address: Albert Square, Manchester M2 5DB
Rotating Manchester street-food market at the Mayfield depot. Fifteen-strong vendor lineup, pizza, burgers, banh mi, vegan; line-up changes each weekend.
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.
City-centre food hall inside the Manchester Arndale shopping centre. Twenty fast-casual traders, communal tables, the lunch shift packs out at noon daily.
Lancashire's most famous market, seven miles north of Manchester. Three hundred stalls, the original Bury Black Pudding Co stand, pies and Lancashire cheese.
Rotating Manchester street-food market at the Mayfield depot. Fifteen-strong vendor lineup, pizza, burgers, banh mi, vegan; line-up changes each weekend.