{"id":23275,"date":"2014-11-06T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=23275"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:43:14","slug":"cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Market Holds Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 416px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cardiff-Christmas-Market-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23276\" alt=\"Revellers enjoy the market's sheer variety.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cardiff-Christmas-Market-01-416x312.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Revellers enjoy the market&#8217;s sheer variety<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just bratwurst and mulled wine at the Cardiff Christmas market anymore. As the ever-popular attraction opens on 14 November, a slew of variety food stalls will also be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re the only one of our kind in Wales\u201d says Leeann Smith, chocolatier and owner of Printed Chocolates. Ms Smith takes photos and messages and prints them directly onto chocolate products, from edible wedding invitations to photographs printed onto personalised snowmen. \u201cEverything we do is extremely personal\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23277\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 312px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/snowmen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23277\" alt=\"Chocolate snowmen, complete with personal photo.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/snowmen-312x312.png\" width=\"312\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chocolate snowmen, complete with personal photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other unique stalls include the Chockshop, a home-delivery service for chocolate brownies, and paella-specialists The Spanish Buffet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to bring some Spanish flavours to the market, such as our famous cider chorizo\u201d says Gabriel Bosch, owner of the Buffet. Bosch brings the taste of Spain to the market all the way from the Balearic islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some surprising stalls have made the cut for the Cardiff tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[1716,404,31,3926,1733],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Market Holds Surprises - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas Market Holds Surprises - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some surprising stalls have made the cut for the Cardiff tradition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-11-06T12:41:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-07T10:43:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/\",\"name\":\"alt.cardiff\",\"description\":\"If it\\u2019s offbeat and in Cardiff then it\\u2019s online here.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cardiff-Christmas-Market-01-416x312.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises\",\"name\":\"Christmas Market Holds Surprises - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-11-06T12:41:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-07T10:43:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/cardiffs-christmas-market-surprises\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\",\"name\":\"altcardiff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251d18ae391aa476d090c1eb0e8b3365?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"altcardiff\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23275"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23703,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions\/23703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}