Altrincham Market
About
Farmers Market
Price Range : Under $10 (££)
Location
Adress: Market Street, Altrincham, WA14 1SA
Phone: +44 161 941 4261
Business info
- move_to_inboxTake-outYes
- local_parkingParkingStreet
- directions_bikeBike ParkingYes
- fastfoodCatersYes
Reviews
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Brian J.
This place is awesome! A good selection of food and drink. A bit loud,a bit noisy and a lot of fun. Lively and loud. Find a table- order food, not much else to work about. There is a little play area for ten kids. The beer selection at Jack in the Box was more then enough for any beer snob to find something to fit their taste. The pizza at honest crust was good. I look forward to many more trips to this market.
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Matt A C.
You don't survive for more than 700 years without reinventing yourself. And the venerable Altrincham Market, granted its Royal Charter in 1290, has brilliantly reinvented itself in recent years.
Gone are the many stalls with dodgy barrow boys selling seconds and knockoffs. Whilst the quality stalls, including the outstanding fishmongers and cheese shop, have remained and been been joined by a fine range of new vendors. Different days have a different focus, with lots of arts and crafts, and live music on many days. It's more like the farmers markets near my home in San Francisco than the Alty market I grew up with.
Two things make it much better than a California farmers market: it's open every day (except Wednesday) and it has the splendid Market House food hall.
The Market House is a beautiful yet functional conversion of the old Victorian market hall. Light floods in through skylights 20 foot overhead, adding to the spacious feel of a hall filled with 100 plus people. Around the outside are more than half a dozen food vendors, including pizza, steak, beer, wine and pies.
Visiting on a wet Tuesday I had no problem finding seats for two at 7pm but it soon filled up. If you want a seat without waiting then you need to get there early doors. I got a couple of beers from Jack in the Box, the outstanding real ale bar, plus a steak and ale pie, with mash and gravy, from the Great Northern Pie Company. The food was so good I've reviewed it separately: suffice to say it was a great pie.
My mate got a burger from The Tender Cow, the steak house. This took at least half an hour to arrive--long enough for me to finish my meal while the servers came out to apologize three times. Once the burger arrived it got full marks for taste.
We had a second pint but did not linger long after eating. We didn't want to hog our space when so many people were looking for a seat.
One final plus point: the market is dog friendly and we saw several dogs lying besides tables. But I have to say that's the only way in which Altrincham Market has gone to the dogs. -
Meike B.
Visiting a friend up North and being taken to Altrincham Market for breakfast - what a treat! We took the dog for a walk through a nearby park area and arrived just as it started pouring down with rain.
Altrincham Market is located in a beautiful Victorian market hall, with one section dedicated to dining while the other still operates as a market. We started in the former and enjoyed the large selection of goodies - I think we had six breakfasts between the four of us as we just couldn't decide between eggs benedicts, pancakes, huevos rancheros, frie ups, you name it. This place is foodie heaven!! There are probably some healthy options as well, but we were a bit worse for wear and needed pure comfort ...
You order at the individual booths located around the main hall, then sit down and relax while your food is being prepared.
The stalls next door sell anything from antiques and doggie treats to aromatherapy, cut flowers and growing herbs, as well as sweet treats, home made condiments and artisan bread. I was already carrying too much stuff on the train journey home - would have loved to add a freshly baked loaf.
Wish we had an Altrincham near London, I would make this my regular ... -
George R.
Michael B's review is spot on. We had dined at Bem Brazil about ten minutes walk away and after a very good lunch we came here for coffees but it was not to be.
The place was crowded to the extent that there wasn't a seat to be had and the various traders were flat out.
As we walked past one of the stalls we spotted a guy actually weighing the coffee on electronic weighing scale that he was putting into the filter basket the sits into the portafilter to make an espresso.
I know enough to know the the perfect measure of coffee for a shot of espresso is seven grams and I thought that the coffee grinder dispensed this amount when operated.
I suppose what I'm saying is that this measuring activity is really over the top but then again at the prices being charged here, as Michael noted, is way top end this weighing gives the impression of ultra top notch but I doubt weighing to the milligram makes a great difference to what you'll taste.
I imagine they must all make their money between Thursday and Sunday so prices have to be ultra high end to thrive. And thrive they do. -
Jennifer O.
Who knew such a cute and amazing market was hidden in a small town in northern England. While visiting England, I stayed with a family friend in Lymm who took me here one morning. The market was incredible! It was not terribly busy but certainly not dead. There was a variety of items to purchase from cute handmade jewelry to raw milk (which I'd never tried before and didn't love but I did love the experience) to amazing baked goods and breads! I also got a very tasty latte at the coffee shop in the indoor area of the market. If you're in the area, check this place out!
PS the breakfasts here looked incredible, too bad I had already eaten...