À la Park is a hedonistic and delightful festival that was celebrated for the first time ever on August 1st–2nd 2025 in Meripuisto, Helsinki. The festival was created to please all senses and to combine live music, exceptional restaurant experiences and top-tier beverages in a new way. The result is an easygoing and un-hurried event to be enjoyed with loved-ones.
Organized in summer 2025 right next to Kaivopuisto, À la Park offered guests a lineup of beloved performers such as José González, Ellinoora, BEHM, Samuli Putro, and Vesterinen yhtyeineen, as well as some of the most interesting restaurants, including Maukku, Restaurant 305, N4KU, and Cafe Tampopo and Sake Bar & Izakaya. Internationally acclaimed Finnish top chefs Toni Toivanen and Juho Ekegren founded a fine dining restaurant Koti that served an incredible five-course summer menu exclusively for festival customers in four sittings. In addition, the event featured entertaining talk shows hosted by Maria Veitola, Jorma Uotinen, and Sami Sykkö.
In planning the festival, the team’s goal was to create something that was never experienced in the Finnish festival scene before, and to offer customers something irresistibly enjoyable. A broad customer survey was conducted to support the production, including both quantitative and qualitative research, aiming to map out what kinds of events people genuinely wish for their summer weekends.
À la Park brings together everything that a delicious summer weekend is made of.
