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What's on
We’ve got loads happening across Easter weekend, it’s the perfect plan for families, friends, and anyone who just fancies a proper day out.
Expect live music, celebrity chef demos, hands-on cooking classes (for kids and grown-ups), and plenty to eat, drink, and explore as you go.
Chef Demos
More to be announced. Schedule TBC
Matty Edgell
2023 Great British Bake Off Winner.
Matty Edgell is the PE teacher-turned-baker who won The Great British Bake Off in 2023 on Channel 4, a win built on calm technique, classic flavours, and turning pressure into performance. In the final, he sealed the title with a three-tier, buttercream-covered celebration cake showstopper, inspired by his first-ever bake and praised by the judges for how good it tasted. Away from the tent, his background in Sports Coaching, Physical Education and secondary teaching shapes his style: clear, practical, and genuinely helpful, the kind of baker who explains why something works, not just what to do. Now he’s built a big online audience by sharing approachable recipes, tips and technique-led content and his Chef Demo brings exactly that energy: confident baking, smart shortcuts, and plenty you’ll want to try at home
Matty Edgell is the PE teacher-turned-baker who won The Great British Bake Off in 2023 on Channel 4, a win built on calm technique, classic flavours, and turning pressure into performance. In the final, he sealed the title with a three-tier, buttercream-covered celebration cake showstopper, inspired by his first-ever bake and praised by the judges for how good it tasted. Away from the tent, his background in Sports Coaching, Physical Education and secondary teaching shapes his style: clear, practical, and genuinely helpful, the kind of baker who explains why something works, not just what to do. Now he’s built a big online audience by sharing approachable recipes, tips and technique-led content and his Chef Demo brings exactly that energy: confident baking, smart shortcuts, and plenty you’ll want to try at home
Aiden Byrne
Aiden Byrne is one of the North’s standout chefs, Liverpool-trained, Cheshire-hardened, and properly obsessed with standards. His career took him from early hotel kitchens into serious fine dining, and by just 22 he’d already made history by winning a Michelin star at Adlards in Norwich (still widely cited as a record-setting moment). He went on to work in top kitchens including Pied à Terre and with Tom Aikens, then helped earn a Michelin star at The Commons. Back up north, he led The Church Green and became a key name in Manchester’s modern food scene with Manchester House (built alongside Tim Bacon), and later 20 Stories. Most recently, Aiden and his wife Sarah opened LI~LY by Aiden Byrne, an intimate tasting-menu restaurant that’s already been listed in the MICHELIN Guide (UK, 2025). Expect a Chef Demo that’s sharp, seasonal, and no-nonsense: big skill, calm confidence, and dishes that show exactly why he’s still shaping the North’s food story
Jaydon and Brendon Manders
Meet the brothers behind Lumberjaxe: Brendon Manders and Jaydon Manders, a Birmingham-born duo turning proper family BBQ memories into big, punchy seasonings and sauces. Inspired by their grandad’s brick-built BBQ in Birmingham, their range is made without added colours or preservatives, just all-natural flavour built for fire cooking. They hit the national spotlight on Dragons' Den in February 2025, landing a £90k investment for 20% from guest Dragon Emma Grede. Now stocked nationwide including Selfridges and Ocado, they’re bringing the heat to our Chef Demo stage with bold techniques, big flavour, and BBQ inspiration you’ll actually want to try at home
Neil Aitken
Head Chef at The Forge Restaurant Chester, bringing serious pedigree and a very clear style: flavour-first food that looks as good as it eats. Originally from Edinburgh and now based in Chester, Neil joined the team after eight years at The Chester Grosvenor, where he rose to Sous Chef in Arkle. His experience also includes working in Michelin-star kitchens across the UK, including Midsummer House. At The Forge, the cooking is built around live fire: meat, fish and seasonal vegetables are cooked over open flames in the open kitchen, giving guests a front-row view of the craft, the heat, and the theatre behind every plate.
Brian Mello
Chef Brian Mellor is a chef-educator through and through, a mentor who’s spent years building confidence in young talent and helping shape the next generation of North West chefs. He’s an Ambassador for Cheshire College South & West, sharing real industry insight with students as they step into professional kitchens.
He’s also the founder and chair of Young North West Chef of the Year, a long-running regional competition (originally launched in the early 2000s) that’s become a proper springboard for emerging chefs, giving them a platform, feedback from respected judges, and a network that can change careers.
Beyond the industry, Brian’s big on making great food feel achievable for everyone. Through Harthill Cookery School and his online teaching, he brings a professional chef’s guidance into home kitchens with practical, confidence-building cooking that’s focused on skills you’ll actually use.
He’s also the founder and chair of Young North West Chef of the Year, a long-running regional competition (originally launched in the early 2000s) that’s become a proper springboard for emerging chefs, giving them a platform, feedback from respected judges, and a network that can change careers.
Beyond the industry, Brian’s big on making great food feel achievable for everyone. Through Harthill Cookery School and his online teaching, he brings a professional chef’s guidance into home kitchens with practical, confidence-building cooking that’s focused on skills you’ll actually use.
Paul Askew
Paul Askew is one of Liverpool’s key culinary leaders, Chef Patron of The Art School, which he opened in September 2014 and has spent over a decade building into one of the city’s best-known fine-dining rooms. The restaurant has been Michelin Guide–listed/recommended from 2014 to the present and has held two AA Rosettes throughout that period, reflecting the consistency and standards he’s relentless about.
What sets Paul apart is that he’s not just focused on his own pass. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and Joint Chairman for the North of England, actively pushing for stronger culinary culture and progression routes outside London. In March 2025, he was intronised as President of Disciples Escoffier UK (having become a Disciple in March 2023), with a clear agenda: modernise, widen representation, and help bring through the next generation via mentoring and opportunities like exchanges and competitions.
Paul’s also delivered at major national moments, including cooking for the G7 delegation (December 2021) and high-profile cultural events in the city, while continuing to invest in Liverpool’s food scene. Alongside his son, Harry Askew, he co-opened Barnacle in December 2021, a modern brasserie that nods to Liverpool’s maritime story and champions seasonal produce and local suppliers.
What sets Paul apart is that he’s not just focused on his own pass. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and Joint Chairman for the North of England, actively pushing for stronger culinary culture and progression routes outside London. In March 2025, he was intronised as President of Disciples Escoffier UK (having become a Disciple in March 2023), with a clear agenda: modernise, widen representation, and help bring through the next generation via mentoring and opportunities like exchanges and competitions.
Paul’s also delivered at major national moments, including cooking for the G7 delegation (December 2021) and high-profile cultural events in the city, while continuing to invest in Liverpool’s food scene. Alongside his son, Harry Askew, he co-opened Barnacle in December 2021, a modern brasserie that nods to Liverpool’s maritime story and champions seasonal produce and local suppliers.
Cooking Classes
We have both Adult cooking classes and Kids cooking classes and they are FREE!
Bookings and timetable will be available soon!
Super Pirates
Kids Zone and Fun Fair
We wanted to make your weekend as fun as possible and that means keeping the kids properly entertained too. We’ve got plenty of fun dotted around the site so the little ones are buzzing .
Face Painting
Fair Rides
Will be charges on the day
Mascots
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