Farmers Market

What better on a beautiful day than to wander around a Farmers Market smelling freshly cooked bread, roasted hog, hot dogs, cakes, exotic African cooked meats, Chinese and Jamaican street food, curries and Paella. It’s the culinary world on an al fresco plate in the heart of the city. A quick delicious imaginative fix for the urban gastronome

The Piccadilly Market is situated on the North-​Eastern corner of Piccadilly Gardens in the heart of Manchester City Centre. At first glance, they’re doing everything right about street food, the theatre, the sounds, the smells and the professional dressing. There is definitely a draw of the crowd because of it’s location and the big sign that says tastiest street food in Manchester. I don’t know if it’s the only street food in Manchester, and thus, that’s it’s claim to fame.
The food was ok to terrible in my opinion and upon further inspection, the range of choice was rather dull. Maybe it’s because I’m from London, where the street food scene is completely thriving and the selection is vast, but to have two burger stalls right next to each other, an ostrich burger stall two doors down and two kebab and Turkish food vendors across from each other, is disappointing. What’s worse is that the Chinese food I ordered from there was dry, used tinned sweet and sour sauce and the rice was less done than al dente. My partners ostrich burger was also nothing to shout about.
All in all, being a street food fan, this was an absolutely horrible experience. Never again!

I love the farmer’s market. I really do. Any place that can sell me a pie with wild boar AND pheasant in is alright by me.
Of course, this is a farmer’s market so you know exactly what kind of things are going to be on sale. I could leave it at that but I have an irrational compulsion to fill blank boxes up with words when online.
So yeah, pies, cheese, chutneys, burgers, sausages and all that good stuff wrapped up in gingham and elastic bands.
Again, with this being one of those foodie places, the air is filled with people cooing about ingredients and dirty nailed farm types talking about how they cradled the piglets to sleep every night before slaying them into chops… ‘…and you can really taste the difference!‘
The only drawback, as mentioned elsewhere, is that it isn’t on nearly as often as many would like and nor is it as expansive as you’d hope.
However, we must count our blessings all the same and be pleased that there’s something like this in town. It is a truly wonderful little thing and I sincerely hope that it’s around for some time yet.

Manchester has been crying out for a good farmer’s market for years. And whilst the Manchester Farmer’s Market ticks some of the boxes for this continually hungry foodie, it could be better.
But first, the good stuff. All of the produce on sale here is excellent — something which is evidenced by the queues you’ll frequently see for handmade burgers, sausages and ice creams. Plus, whenever I’ve visited here, I’ve never left empty handed, having been seduced by the cheeses, chutneys, damson gin and meats from numerous stalls as well as the expertise of the people selling them.
Every stall holder here is amazingly friendly, and all too willing to talk at length about where their produce is sourced from and how it is made. And you should definitely talk to the producers — otherwise, how else will you discover that your sausage bap was made from exceedingly happy pigs indeed?
However, I do wish that this farmer’s market was larger and held on a more regular basis. There’s loads of places in Manchester just crying out for great food to be sold on their premises — and I’m sure that I can’t be the only person who thinks a public space such as Albert Square would be a great place for a regular and huge artisan food producers event.
However, if you’re ever in Manchester and you spy a few food stalls and a mouth watering smell of frying meat on a weekend, you should definitely pay the farmer’s market a visit. I seriously doubt that you’ll manage to leave empty handed.

5 stars for the pie vendor!
5 stars for cheese vendor from lancs.
3 or 4 stars for the jerk chicken.
1 star for the fruits & veg vendor, b/​c I don’t think they work with local farmers at all. Most of the stock seems shipped in from other continents. Some of the most tasteless strawberries I’ve ever eaten. Sad, picked-​green, tomatoes. I am glad to see fresh veg at the market, but I just wish that it was actually local and FRESH.

|This is a great place for lovely fresh produce. Can be a lttle pricey though bu i suppose you pay for quality.
They also have a lovely range of fresh flowers and plants

i think this a very good place for the small business.
I personally like the smoothies that u can get on one of the stalls.
There is a wide rage of food to be had. I especially like the chinese food!

This market is great for getting some fresh meat, but really, cant it be there a bit more often?
The market is in a great location just next to Picadilly gardens, and is the perfect place to pick up succulent pork chops or sausages, or even a variety of cheeses. You can also get yourself a great tasting sausage in a bun with fancy blue cheese for a reasonable price compared to the tinned hot-​dogs you may get elsewhere.
The range of chutneys and fresh flowers you can get there are also incredible, especially if you can pass the chutney off as home-​made!
It really needs to be made a little bigger, and be there a little more often. Come on council, help out our farmers!

Two good points and one bad point as far as I’m concerned. The first, and most important, advantage to this Farmers’ Market is the quality of the produce — it’s truly excellent. And the fact that the very people responsible for producing it are on hand to talk to you about it is great too. The second advantage is its location: public transport links are very good and on a summer Saturday there’s nothing quite like a gentle meander through the inviting aromas criss-​crossing Piccadilly Gardens. The down-​side for me it its size: I’d prefer it to be a lot bigger and more frequent too. It seems rather pitiful that Manchester can only support a relatively small number of stalls at an event like this don’t we care about our food here?!

great place to go and conventially place in piccadilly, loads to choose from and well prices, cheeses are lovely and grab the pickles. farmers are always dead helpful and friendly

The farmers market situated in Manchester Piccadilly Gardens is a great place that I love to visit when it is here. I thoroughly enjoy supporting small traders and farmers and not always big supermarket chains. Manchester farmers market is not the only farmers market that I attend but it is one of the best. It has a huge selection of home grown and home made produce, ranging from chutneys and jams, to breads cakes and even susages, along with the occasional foreign produce and brands. This market is the ideal place for picking up food and goods for a dinner party or special event as well as anything unusual or unique that someone has taken the time to make themselves.
Everyone visiting Manchester should attend the farmers market at least once, which earns it a great big 5 star rating.

Exactly what we need. Cut out the Tescos.

This was a lovely place to visit — the oldfashioned market was an absolute breeze. We should have more of these in bradford, but this one in manchester was so much better. There was a wide variety of food stuffs to be had from homemade jam and pickles to cuts of meat and pies to vegetables. From garden plants and seeds to cut flowers. They also had a good choice of sandwiches and burgers and i absolutely loved the steak sandwich and dripping — it was massive and gorgeous. The smell alone was enough to make me slaver. They also had a good variety of homemade jewellery and gifts and cards. This is a good showcase of the best homemade goods available. A lovely day out. The prices were steeper than supermarket prices but you was paying for the best products available.

Great additon to picadilly gardens. great just to have a look.
PLants
butties
other lovely things
check it out

Good fun, great sandwishes. Lots of food to try and buy. Cosy, happy atmosphere.

I have to say the sauasges are out of this world with onions and relish of your choice! mmmmmmm and im a closet vegetarian! The fudge man is another place to try with gorgeous homemade fudge which melts in ones mouth, mmmmmm and im on a diet!

The market is on the fountain side of Piccadilly Gardens, next to the statue of Queen Victoria, in Manchester city centre.
The market contains a number of stalls and brings together farmers from across the North West, selling a whole host of fresh produce. It is the farmers themselves who attend this market giving you the opportunity to ask them all about the products they are selling.
You will always find new items on sale so make sure you visit the markets regularly to see what new produce is on offer.
For those in search of good foodstuffs should visit the Farmers’ Market in the city centre every 1^st Saturday of the month. You’ll find a fantastic array of locally produced, good quality, GM-​free delights, which include Lancashire honey, ostrich meat, Cumberland sausages, free range lamb, geese, smoked trout, locally grown herbs, local cheeses and more! There’s a constantly changing array of delights.

This is a lovely little market to walk around, especially if the weather is nice! They have hot food for sale aswell as their own produce. All i can say is that they serve possibly the worlds best steak sandwiches!!! Its nice to meet the faces behind the products too and learn a bit more about them!

in piccadilly gardens on the first saturday of every month, homemade jams/​pickles/​cheeses & home grown produce, a wonderful variety.