À la Park is a two-day festival that delights all the senses. Held in Helsinki’s Meripuisto from Friday to Saturday, August 1-2, 2025, the event brings top-quality food, drink, and music into a shared spotlight for the first time in Finland. The festival features a carefully curated music lineup, a high-quality and diverse drink selection, as well as the hand-picked selection of the most interesting restaurants of the moment. The festival's restaurant lineup is curated by chef, catering entrepreneur, and Top Chef Finland judge Pipsa Hurmerinta.

À la Park transforms Helsinki's Meripuisto into an idyllic setting with two stages, restaurant and terrace areas, and a lush park environment. The festival spreads from the playground area of Meripuisto towards the west, across the green space between tree-lined paths. Restaurants and other festival services are spread throughout the park, ensuring there is plenty to see and enjoy in a relaxed atmosphere. The event is for adults only, so there are no restricted bar areas.

At the festival, you can enjoy the offerings of restaurants and bars both seated at a table and while strolling through the park. Between concerts on the Main Course Stage, there is time to explore the area's services and follow the program on the Side Dish Stage, which will be announced later.

À la Park brings together everything that makes for a delicious and atmospheric summer weekend, so gather your group and indulge in the festival delights.

À la Park brings the most interesting and current restaurants to the visitors’ fingertips. The menus of the restaurants are built around tasting-sized portions, allowing you to experience a wide variety of flavors throughout the festival day. 

In addition to the extensive range of food restaurants, the event will feature an exceptionally interesting and high-quality selection of wines, cocktails, and beers, not forgetting non-alcoholic options. 

All products and services are available for purchase on-site at the event. You can also make your festival experience even more carefree by purchasing a drink and food tasting package in advance. 

There's plenty of vegetarian and vegan options available.

À la Park is held in Meripuisto in Helsinki's Ullanlinna. The event area is bordered by Merikatu and the Merisatamanranta waterfront. The easiest way to reach the event area is by public transport, walking, or cycling. The nearest tram stops are Kapteeninkatu and Neitsytpolku. The festival site map will be published later.

The event area is mainly grassland with gravel paths running through it. Most of the area is flat, but some parts of the festival area are sloped. The event has an accessible viewing area for customers who need it and their assistants.

À la Park festival was born out of its creators' passion for music, food, and drink, as well as for producing high-quality event experiences. 

The event is organized by Fullsteam Agency. The team behind the event has organized for example Sideways and Provinssi festivals, as well as numerous other concert and festival events across Finland. 

The restaurant lineup of À la Park is curated by chef, catering entrepreneur, and Top Chef Finland judge Pipsa Hurmerinta.

In addition to providing an unforgettable and genuinely service-oriented festival experience, it is important to us that everyone feels safe at our event and can focus on enjoying the festival experience as themselves. À la Park adheres to the principles of a safer space, and we expect every festival-goer to strive to create an equal and respectful environment.

Principles for a safer space:

• Don’t assume. It is natural to make assumptions about other people, but we strive to be aware of our own presuppositions and we are open to different kinds of topics and people. We don’t define experiences on behalf of anyone else and we don’t generalize our own experiences to others. We don’t make assumptions about anyone’s sexuality, gender, nationality, religion, values, socioeconomic background, health, appearance or ability to function, but we respect everyone’s right to self-determination.
• Don’t degrade. We don’t degrade or embarrass anyone by their externals. We treat others as we would like to be treated.
• Don’t reproduce. We don’t reproduce racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or ableist stereotypes in our speech, actions, or behavior. We strive to use language that doesn’t exclude anyone.
• Intervene. If we witness any offensive behavior, we will not remain silent, but we will intervene.
• Respect. We respect other people’s physical, mental, and emotional personal space. We remember that we cannot know the boundaries of one without asking from them and we don’t touch the other without permission. If necessary, we ask for space for ourselves as well.
• Give space. We make sure everyone has space to participate in the discussion and we treat sensitive topics with respect.
• Give and receive feedback. Everyone is allowed to give appropriate and constructive feedback from inappropriate treatment. If someone gives you feedback on your actions, please listen to the feedback provider. We are open to the feedback we receive and we will take the feedback into account in our own activities in the future.