Posted: Fri 19th Jun 2026

Chester’s Grosvenor Park street food event launches this Saturday

News and Info from Deeside, Flintshire, North Wales

A free two-day street food event at Grosvenor Park in Chester on Saturday and Sunday, 27 and 28 June, launches the 2026 Storyhouse in the Park season.

The weekend will feature food traders, live music and family games, with entry to the park free of charge.

Traders at the event include Chows Street Food, which serves Chinese cuisine and fish and chips, Maray from Northgate Street, The Sandbar Seafood Shack, and Chester Market businesses Nice Bites, Sandwich’d and Guroma.

Parkgate-based Chows Eating House is also among those attending, alongside plant-based café Fika, The Jolly Gardeners from Boughton and Chester craft beer and cider seller That Beer Place.

A pop-up wine bar and the park’s teepee bar will also be open across the weekend.

The street food event marks the start of the wider Storyhouse in the Park season, which runs from late June to September.

The open-air theatre programme opens on 3 July with Outlaw: A Robin Hood Story, directed by Hannah Noone, running until 23 August.

A second production, Let the Sun Shine!, directed by Rob Green and Lucy Thatcher and set in 1969, runs from 10 July to 23 August.

The family walkabout show this year is Peter Pan, taking place from 28 July to 13 August, aimed at children under eight and their families.

The season closes with Nell Gwynn, a co-production with Shakespeare North Playhouse and Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake, running from 21 August to 6 September.

Across the summer the park will also host outdoor cinema nights, comedy evenings, murder mystery events, outdoor yoga sessions and family library craft sessions.

Full details on the Storyhouse in the Park season are available at storyhouse.com.

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