the Manchester Evening News<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhile a few prices have stayed the same as last year – with Bratwurst and other flavoured sausages costing \u00a38 and Frankfurters \u00a37 – most items have risen.<\/p>\n
Last year’s Yorkshire pudding wraps were all \u00a310, except for the mixed meat, which cost \u00a312. You can still get the chicken one for \u00a310, but the beef and minted lamb are now \u00a312 each and the mixed meat is \u00a313.<\/p>\n
Greek gyros are pretty much the same, mostly \u00a311 each, but a pitta box is now \u00a315 including chicken, lamb, halloumi, feta and olives and falafel.<\/p>\n
Some of the Winter Bar’s hot drinks have remained the same, with hot chocolate, lattes and other coffees \u00a34 each and liqueur coffees \u00a37, but the Baileys Hot Chocolate with Brandy or Amaretto is up from \u00a37 to \u00a38, gin and tonics up from \u00a36.50 to \u00a37, and sparkling prosecco up from \u00a37 to \u00a38.50.<\/p>\n
Cocktails however, including Drumstick, Caramel Eggnog, Parma Violet, The Grinch, Cranberry Kringle and Winter Snowflake, are down from \u00a39 last year to \u00a38.50.<\/p>\n
At The Globe Bar, Lufstorm lager, Airstream ale and cider are now \u00a36.50 a pint, up 50p from last year, prosecco is up from \u00a36.50 to \u00a37, and winter gin prosecco still \u00a38.50.<\/p>\n
Spirits are up from \u00a36.50 single, \u00a38.50 double to \u00a37 and \u00a39 respectively, while flavoured espresso martinis – chocolate orange, black forest gateau and Christmastini – are up from \u00a38.50 to \u00a39.50.<\/p>\n
Mulled wine has gone from \u00a35.50\/\u00a36 to \u00a35.50\/\u00a36.50, with shots up from \u00a32.50\/\u00a33.50 to \u00a33\/\u00a34 and spiced rum punch and mulled spiced gin now \u00a39 compared with \u00a38.50 last Christmas.<\/p>\n
The Dutch mini pancakes are always popular among the sweet-toothed visitors and you can expect to pay a standard \u00a36 a pop this year. Previously they were \u00a35 with certain toppings, which include white chocolate, maple syrup, caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, or lemon, Bueno, Pistachio, Fizzy Pop, Lotus Biscoff and Nutella. Extra toppings cost a \u00a31 instead of 50p.<\/p>\n
The Christmas mugs are back too with a new cartoon toy town design for 2025. The tall and short mugs are used across the Christmas Markets stalls for gluhwein and hot chocolate drinks.<\/p>\n
As always Manchester’s special edition Christmas mugs can either be bought outright by Christmas shoppers or ‘rented’ when they purchase a hot drink at one of the Christmas Market stalls.<\/p>\n
The price of the mugs has been kept the same as last year with customers asked to pay a deposit of \u00a33.50 for their mug when they purchase either a hot chocolate or a gluhwein.<\/p>\n
They can then either choose to return their mug to the stall afterwards to get their deposit back, or keep the mug and take it home with them as a souvenir of their visit to Manchester and the markets.<\/p>\n
This year’s Christmas Markets promise to be bigger and better than ever with 274 stalls across 10 sites, including a reopened section of Albert Square.<\/p>\n
Returning for the first time in several years, Albert Square will host ‘A Taste of Christmas’: a festive ‘mini market’ selling food, drinks and crafts.<\/p>\n
The square will be home to a huge Ferris wheel, giving breathtaking views of Manchester’s Town Hall.<\/p>\n
The Markets open in full on Friday, November 7 and close on Monday, December 22, except for A Taste of Christmas on Albert Square and the stalls at Cathedral Gardens which will remain open throughout the Christmas period until 4 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The markets open on November 7Christmas Markets in Cathedral Gardens and Skate Manchester ice rink(Image: Manchester Family \/…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,124933,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-529903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-christmas-events","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115442621049437663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Christmas Markets in Cathedral Gardens and Skate Manchester ice rink(Image: Manchester Family \/ MEN)<\/p>\n