Cardiff Market will open on a Friday evening for the first time ever for a one-off return of the 'Night Market,' complete with live music and a range of independent traders. The exact details of which traders will be present are still being finalised.
The event is being organised as part of the 'City of Arcades' week which will see more than 35 events taking place across the city's seven arcades. The week, which will start on Saturday, October 29, will be comprised of live music, food tastings, drag shows jewellery making, a walking trail for families based on the castle's famous animal wall, and discounts across shops in the arcades.
And the market will open on Friday, November 4 between 6pm and 9pm as part of the event. Louise Thomas, the market manager, said: "It’s exciting opening up on a Friday night for the first time.
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"With the music, all the amazing food stalls and the quirky retailers we’ve got here it should be quite a night. We’re still putting the finishing touches to the plans.
"But we’re hoping most of the stallholders will be staying open and we’ll see lots of people coming in to pick up a bite to eat, do some late-night shopping and soak up the atmosphere. The events we’ve run in the past have been really popular and we were hoping to run more over the summer, but the timing hasn’t quite been right, so it’s good to be back."
The night market was initially launched in July 2019 but was put on hold due to lockdown. It re-opened in May but wasn't established as a regular event.
The market is home to loads of trendy food stalls, including Tukka Tuk, Tokyo Nights, Pierogi, which opened this year, and Ffwrnes, started up by two men from Cardiff who quit their day jobs and became the stars of the Bois y Pizza series on S4C. It's not yet known whether these two specific stalls will make an appearance on the night.
The market, a Grade II*-listed building, was opened in May 1981. The site was previously a farmers market and had also been a jail, where the Merthyr Uprising martyr Dic Penderyn was hanged in 1831.
More detail on the City of Arcades events can be found here.
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