Gluten-free at the Bath Christmas market: what a coeliac can actually eat

The short answer

Bath’s free market fills the Georgian streets around the Abbey and the Roman Baths with wooden chalets. At the stalls, the reliable things are the whole ones: roasted chestnuts, mulled wine, coffee or a pure tea. Most of the baked, battered and filled stall food is wheat. The good news is a few minutes’ walk away: a gluten-free flapjack bakery on New Bond Street Place, which we’ve checked against its own site, and a taco bar that’s listed as dedicated gluten-free.

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This season’s market

The Bath Christmas Market runs from Thursday 26 November to Sunday 13 December 2026. Opening hours, as the organiser prints them: Monday to Wednesday 10am to 7pm, Thursday to Saturday 10am to 8pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm. It’s an open-air, free event. Official page: bathchristmasmarket.co.uk.

The organiser counts over 250 traders, spread through the city centre from Abbeygate Street in the south to Milsom Street in the north. It’s run by Bath and North East Somerset Council. It’s a mixed market, not a gluten-free one, so treat it the way the hub describes.

What’s likely gluten-free at the stalls, and what isn’t

Same tiers as anywhere, and no stall named. Roasted chestnuts, mulled wine in your mug, and coffee or a pure tea are reliably gluten-free by their nature, handling permitting. Roasted almonds are ask-first: is it just sugar, almonds and cinnamon, or is something added afterwards, and are they open beside other sweets? Waffles, doughnuts and crêpes need their own labelled flour and a clean fryer or iron to be genuinely gluten-free, and most of what’s on a chalet counter isn’t. A plain grilled sausage or burger taken off its roll, with the marinade and the grill asked about first, is the reasonable order.

The three questions to ask a stall

Where to eat gluten-free in Bath

Always tell them you have coeliac disease and confirm how they handle it on the day.

★ Dedicated gluten-free

• Flapjackery, bakery, 2 New Bond Street Place, BA1 1BH. A gluten-free flapjack bakery by its own description: it says it has no products in its bakery that contain gluten, and it uses certified gluten-free oats.

Listed as dedicated gluten-free, not yet checked by us

• Dos Dedos, Mexican restaurant, Edgar Mews, Bartlett Street, BA1 2QZ. Its own menu serves every taco and quesadilla on gluten-free corn tortillas, and also says the kitchen can’t guarantee the absence of allergens. Tell them you’re coeliac before you order.

Gluten-free options, listed by a directory or Google, not yet checked by us

• Bill’s Bath Restaurant, restaurant
• Dough, restaurant
• Good Day Cafe, café
• Rosarios, café
• The Salamander, pub
• Velo Lounge, restaurant

These are options, not dedicated kitchens. If you know a gluten-free-friendly kitchen in Bath we should look at, tell us. A reader’s tip is how this page grows.

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Getting there and staying

Bath Spa station is a short walk from the market, and the organiser’s travel page points to regular trains from London Paddington and London Waterloo, so Bath pairs naturally with a London Christmas market on the same trip. The organiser also flags planned engineering works affecting trains from London on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, so check before you travel that weekend. We don’t yet have a gluten-free breakfast we can vouch for at a Bath stay, so we don’t name one here.

FAQ

What can I eat at the Bath Christmas market if I’m coeliac?
The reliable things are the whole ones: roasted chestnuts, mulled wine, coffee or a pure tea. Waffles, doughnuts and most chalet food are wheat. Ask before anything fried.

Are there dedicated gluten-free places in Bath?
Yes. Flapjackery on New Bond Street Place is a gluten-free bakery, checked against its own site. Dos Dedos, a taco bar off Bartlett Street, is listed as dedicated gluten-free but not yet checked by us.

Where can I eat a proper gluten-free meal near the market?
Dos Dedos off Bartlett Street is listed as dedicated gluten-free, and the list above adds a few restaurants and cafés with gluten-free options, listed by a directory or Google and not yet checked by us. Flapjackery is a few minutes from the chalets for something sweet. Always tell them you have coeliac disease and confirm on the day.

Is mulled wine gluten-free at the Bath market?
By recipe, mulled wine is wine, sugar and spices. Ask about a ready spice mix before you assume.

Sources and review

Market dates, hours, free entry, trader count, area and the train notes from bathchristmasmarket.co.uk (home, event information, about and plan-your-journey pages), last verified 24.09.2026. Flapjackery’s gluten-free statement from its own site, last verified 24.09.2026. Dos Dedos’s menu read against its own site on 23.09.2026. Venues from the HTGF Atlas, each with the evidence label shown above. Food and drink claims from the German Coeliac Society’s market guide (2023), IG Zöliakie (Switzerland) and the EU definition of mulled wine (Reg. 251/2014). We haven’t walked this market in person yet: this page is answer-first and grows after a visit or a reader’s verified tip.

Reviewed for the 2026 season. What we promise: /what-we-promise/

Next stop

Bath to London, by train from Bath Spa. Everywhere else in the country is on the UK Atlas page.