Christmas

Manchester Christmas Markets 2024 prices – how much is food and drink this year?

Time to start budgeting.

Daisy Jackson - 8th November 2024

The Manchester Christmas Markets are back for 2024 and I know the question on all your lips is about prices – ‘how much is this all going to cost me’?

The huge festive celebration is one of the city’s biggest visitor attractions, luring in around nine million visitors each year.

Manchester city centre is filled to bursting with pretty wooden huts, twinkling lights, and cosy bars, serving and selling gifts, bratwurst, mulled wine and loads more.

There are plenty of familiar independent traders from around town joining in with the event, including Flat Baker, Oi Dumplings, and The Hip Hop Chip Shop, as well as more traditional European stalls.

With 240 stalls to explore across nine different locations, it’s a huge endeavour to get round it all.

But – as with everything these days – prices at the Manchester Christmas Markets have steadily crept up in recent years, so what is everything going to cost you in 2024?

We have the answers.

Average food and drink prices at the Manchester Christmas Markets 2024

Mulled wine – £5.50 (plus £3 for a shot of spirits)
Lager – £6
Prosecco – £6.50
Bratwurst – £8
Yorkshire pudding wrap – £10
Hot chocolate – £3.50

How much is a mug deposit at the Manchester Christmas Markets this year?

To have a drink at the Manchester Christmas Markets you first need to purchase a special mug.

Every year the council releases a special design for your markets bevvies – this year’s features festive cartoon characters.

These cost £3.50, which you can have refunded when you take them back to a bar – or you can keep it as a souvenir.

That means that when you get a mulled wine (£5.50) with a shot of rum or brandy (£3), plus the mug itself (£3.50), you’ll be dropping £12 on the spot. But you can get a bit of that back later.

Manchester Christmas Markets 2024 prices by area

The Winter Gardens at Piccadilly Gardens

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Swing Bar & Grill

Bratwurst, smoked sausage, cheese sausage – £8

Apres Ski Bar

Off-piste lager, Alpine Ale, Weissbier, cider – £6
Wine – £5.50
Prosecco – £6.50 (plus £1 for shimmer)
Spirits and mixers – £6.50 single, £8.50 double
Baileys – £5
Hot drinks – £2.50 tea, £3.50 coffee and hot chocolate, £3 hot Vimto (plus £2.50 for spirit)
Boozy Choctails – £8.50
Mulled wine and cider – £5.50/£6
Mulled wine with spirit – £7.50-£8
Hot cocktails – £8.50

Beer bar

Krombacher lager, wheat beer, cherry beer – £6.50
Sheppy’s Cider – £5.50 for normal, £6 for raspberry
Mulled wine – £5.50 (plus £3 for a shot)
Hot whiskey – £6.50
Hot chocolate – £3.50 (plus £3 for a shot)
Soft drinks – £2.50

North Star Gin & Cocktail Bar

Mulled wine – £5.50 (£6 for large, plus £2/£3 for a spirit)
Aperol Spritzmas – £8.50
Prosecco – £6.50 (plus £1 to add shimmer)
Standard spirits – £6.50 single, £8.50 double

Mr Crumble

Build your own crumble (bases include apple, winter berry, chocolate caramel brownies) £7

Oi Dumplings

Steamed dumplings with pickles and sauce – £8 snack size, £12 meal size, £13 box with rice

The Hip Hop Chip Shop

Fish, chips and mushy peas – £8 kids, £12 medium, +£3 for large
Vegan sausage and chips – £8 kids, £12 medium, +£3 for large
Battered sprouts – £6
Garlic and herb skin-on chips – £5.50
Local craft beers (including Shindigger, Pomona Island, Manchester Union) – from £5.50

Wrap Up

Burritos – £11 for chicken, chilli beef or halloumi, £10.50 for veggie/vegan chilli, £12.50 for chicken and halloumi

Continental Kitchen / Porkies Yorkies

Chicken and chorizo, seafood, or vegetarian paella – £8 medium, £10 large
Spanish meatballs and rice – £8 medium, £10 large
Patatas bravas – £8
Omelette burger – £8

Porkys Bar & Grill

Roast pork barm with stuffing – £9
Beef burgers – £8 (+£1 for cheese)
Lamb, gourmet beef, venison burgers – £10

Porkys of Yarm

Cumberland sausage – £7
Lancashire cheese potatoes – £7
Lager – £6 a pint, £3 for half
Mulled wine – £5.50 (add a shot of rum for £3)

Tipsy Wheels

Lager, ale and cider – £6
Prosecco – £6.50
Spirits – £6.50 single, £8.50 double
Baileys – £5
Hot chocolate – £3.50 plus £1 for toppings
All cocktails – £8.50
Glass hire – £3.50 for mug, £2 for glass, £3.50 for cocktail glass, £7 for a stein glass

The Dirty Chicken Co

Burgers from £7
Chicken strips and fries £9.50
Dirty fries £6.50

Gin Bar

Gin cocktails (no prices listed)
House favourites (no prices listed)

Kaiser Schmarrn

Traditional scrambled pancakes – £7
Coconut macaroons – £2 for one of £7 for four

BangGa BangGa

Korean hot dogs (various flavours) – £6 individual, £10 meal
Stretchy mozzarella – £6
Soft drinks – between £1.50 and £3

Loaded fries

Loaded fries – £10 or £11
Manc poutine – £10

Brook’s Mill

Coffee – £4, or £7 with a shot
Seasonal lattes – £4.50
Hot chocolate – £4, or £7 with a shot
Gin and tonic – £6.50 single, £8.50 double
Mulled wine – £5.50
Hot rum or cider – £6

Manchester Winter Ale House

Local craft and cask beers – £6 a pint (under 4.5% abv), £7 a pint (over 4.5% abv)
Manchester’s famous hot blobs – £6
Hot gluhwein or fruit cider – £5.50, or £6.50 with brandy or rum
Hot Vimto cocktails – £6, or £8 for doubles
Wine – £7 for small, £8.50 for large
Snowballs – £6, or £8 with a shot
Cheeky Vimto – £7

Christmas Alley

Mulled wine – £5.50 (plus £3 for a shot)
Cocktails – £9.50
Prosecco – £6.50
Wine – £5 small, £7 large
Lager or Irish stout – £6 pint, £3.50 half pint
Spirit and mixer – £6.50 single, £9.50 double
Baileys – £7.50 small, £9.50 large
Soft drinks – £3.50

Vegan bratwurst

Plain – £7
Cheezy, katsu curry bratwurst – £8
Chilli cheeze bratwurst – £10
Fries – £4.50
Black cherry brownie – £4.50
Loaded hot chocolate – £5

Ma Cuisine Francaise

Garlic potatoes – £7
Garlic mushrooms – £9
Tartiflette – £9
Garlic prawns – from £5

The Flat Baker

Croissant with warm dipping sauce – £7.50
Signature cookie hot chocolate – £7.90
Brazilian mince roll ice cream – £6.50

Little Piece of Bahia

Feijoada and all other stews (w/ rice n beans) – @13.99
Cheese bread (six pieces and sauce) – £6.50
Dumplings – £6.50

Exchange Square

The Last Outpost

Mulled cider – £6 pint, £3.50 half
Winter warmers – £5.50 to £6
Beer – £5.50 to £6
House wine – £5.50
Soft drinks – £2

Dutch Mini Pancakes

£5-£6

The Mill Bar

Homemade mulled wines – £6.50 small, £8 large
Boozy hot chocolates – £8
Non-alcoholic – £4 to £7.50
Cocktails – £10
Prosecco – £7
Bucks fizz – £6
Kir Royale – £8
Sangria or Negroni spritz – £10

German Sausage Bar

German bratwurst, cheese sausage or smoked sausage – £8
Hot boozy drinks. – £6
Lager – £6
Soft drinks – £2

Clarkes Bar

Hot chocolate – £4.50 (£6 for smores hot choc)
Coffee – £3.50
Signature cocktails – £9
Prosecco – £7
XMaesso martini – £10
Wine – £5.50

La Bavette

Steak frites – £10
Steak sandwich – £10

Dine with Saira

£10 curry box with rice and seekh kebab
£10 mix and match box
£5 samosas
£8 samosa chaat

Cathedral Gardens

The Well & Spruce

Mulled wine – £5.50
Boozy hot chocolate – £7
Gin and tonic – £6.50
Prosecco with a twist – £7
Hot drinks – £4

Gourmet Burgers

Sausages – £8
Frankfurter – £7
Burger – £8

Yorkshire Pudding Wraps

£10

Greek Street Food

Gyros wrap – £11
Pitta box – £14
Halloumi fries – £7.50
Loaded fries – £11

The Globe Bar

Lager, ale, cider – £6
Prosecco – £6.50
Cocktails – £8.50
Mulled wine – £5.50 (plus £2.50 for a shot)
Spirits and mixer – £6.50 single, £8.50 double
Baileys – £5
Soft drinks – £2

New Cathedral Street

Mamma Mia

Lager – £6 pint, £3.50 half pint
Prosecco – £6.50
Prosecco cocktails – £8
Mulled wine – £6 (plus £1 for a shot)

St Ann’s Square

St Ann’s beer hall

Lager and pilsner – £6.50 pint, £3.50 half pint (plus 50p for cherry flavour)
Gluhwein (various flavours) – £6
Gluhwein specials – £8.50

WonderWurst

Extra large grilled sausage – £6

Strudel

Apple strudel – £7
Kaiserschmarrn scrambled pancakes – £7

Bratwurst

Half-metre bratwurst – £8
Big Dutch chips – £4.50 including two sauces

Yard & Coop

Chicken in a cone – £7
Tenders and fries – £10
Trays – £11
Burgers – £13

King Street

King Street Craft Bar

Pints – £6-6.50 (£2 deposit for reusable glass)
Wines – £5
Seasonal hot wines – £5.50
Slushy cocktails – £8
Sparkling prosecco and rose – £8

The Moose

Drumstick Cocktail – £8.50
Sheppy’s Winter Spice Cider – £5.50
Christmas Martinis – £8.50
Mulled wines – £5-8.50

Cheezy Bandits

Classic mac n cheese – £8
Faux-mage (Vegan) – £8
Loaded mac n cheese (Buffalo Soldier, coq au mac, that’ll do pig, festive pig) – £11
Upgrades (bacon bits, pigs in blankets, southern fried chicken) – £1
Extras (sauces, crispy onions etc.) – 50p

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