Carriageworks Christmas Market 2016

Overview

How'd you like to populate your Christmas feast with local, artisanal goods to make your relatives impressed and your in-laws floored? After a successful debut last year, Carriageworks is bringing back their Christmas Market, where you can buy fresh seasonal produce just a couple of days before Christmas. Importantly, you can also buy gifts just days before the big day, because we know what you're like.

Hitting Carriageworks on Friday, December 23, the market will be a cornucopia of the spoils of over 160 of Australia's best producers, restaurants and designers — think homemade plum puddings, succulent turkeys and hams, fresh cherries, smelly cheeses and more, alongside artisan food and gift stalls. Plus, they'll even have Christmas trees for you traditionalists — or highly unorganised folk.

Expect the best from the weekly Carriageworks Farmers Market, including produce favourites like Pudding Lane, Melanda Park Pasture Raised Pork, Linga Longa Farm, Burrawong Gaian, Thirlmere Poultry Supply, Drive in Orchards, Wanaka Orchards, Wandillyan Seafood, The Shuck Truck, Freeman Vineyards and more. Plus, there'll be plenty more joining the party, including Billy Kwong, Archie Rose, Young Henrys, Bar Pho and Moobi Valley Farm, Happy as Larry, Eloquesta Wines, Slow Wine Co. and Vale Creek Wines. Carriageworks is licensed for you to take away booze too, if you have beer lovers on your pressie list.

If you're a last-minute gift-buyer, there'll be 75 gift stalls from the likes of local designers Romance Was Born, Benah, Studio Elke, Published Art, Better Read Than Dead, Beautiful Pages, Aneau, The DEA Store, Supply Paper Co, High Swan Dive, Clay Canoe, Double Rainbouu, The Rocks Push, Bandsome and Rolling Records.

Look at that, Carriageworks just saved Christmas.

Image: Daniel Boud.