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

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

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

La Cuisine Provencale

• Garlic potatoes – £5.50 regular, £7.50 large
• Garlic mushrooms – £8 regular, £10 large
• Mustard chicken or provencal chicken – £9 regular, £11 large

El Gato Negro

• Chorizo, lamb meatballs, patatas bravas – £6
• Fully loaded bravas and meatball sandwich – £8
• Combo deal – £10
• Mulled wine – £6.50 (plus £2 for spirits)
• Mulled margarita – £8
• Pint – £6
• Prosecco – £5
• Soft drinks – £2.50

Waffle Kart

• Chicken and waffles – £13.95
• Waffle prawn toast – £12.50
• Chicken loaded waffle fries – £11

Read more

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