Stonedead Festival 2026 isn’t just bringing the rock ‘n’ roll to Newark Showground — it’s bringing some serious festival scran too. 🔥
Let’s face it: a full day of riffs, singing, wandering around the arena and generally behaving like you’re still 21 requires fuel.
And Stonedead has revealed its food traders, with everything from fresh coffee and breakfast rolls to Mexican food, curry, pizza, kebabs, handmade pies, fried chicken, loaded fries and babyback ribs on offer.
Even better, the official guide highlights which vendors cater for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and nut-allergy requirements.
So grab your imaginary plate, butt.
We’re going food shopping. 🍔🍕🌯🤘
⚠️ Dietary Requirements? Check Before Ordering
Before we start drooling over the menu, Stonedead has included an important message:
Anyone with dietary needs or requirements should check directly with the individual vendor before ordering.
The festival’s guide gives a useful overview, but ingredients, preparation methods and potential cross-contamination can vary.
If you’ve got an allergy or specific dietary requirement, always speak to the trader first.
Safety before scran. 🤘
☕ Coffee Vagabond
Fresh Ground Coffee and Sweet Treats
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
First stop?
Obviously coffee.
Coffee Vagabond could become an essential part of the Stonedead survival strategy, particularly for anyone arriving at Newark Showground after an early start.
Coffee + sugar + riffs = functioning festival human.
🍜 Oriental Kitchen
Japanese and Korean Dishes
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
If you fancy something a little different, Oriental Kitchen will be serving Japanese and Korean dishes.
With all four dietary categories marked on the Stonedead guide, this could be a popular stop throughout the day.
🌯 El Burrito
Mexican Dishes
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Mexican food in the middle of a rock festival?
Absolutely. 🌯🔥
El Burrito brings another welcome alternative to traditional festival grub, with options indicated across all four dietary categories.
🧀 Fodder & Flute
Halloumi Fries, Lamb Kofta and Dirty Fries
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ❌
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ❌
Halloumi fries.
Lamb kofta.
Dirty fries.
We could probably finish this section there.
SOLD. 😂
🍰 Demsi’s Diner
Sweet Treats
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Because somewhere between bands you’re inevitably going to think:
“You know what I need right now? Cake.”
And you’d be absolutely correct.
🥧 London Pie & Mash
Hand-Made Pies and Mash
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Now we’re getting serious.
Handmade pie.
Mash.
Rock music.
Probably some questionable British weather.
That’s basically festival perfection right there.
Get the gravy involved and we’re laughing. 🥧🤘
🍕 Firehouse Pizzas
Freshly Made Pizzas and Garlic Bread
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ❌
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ❌
Pizza is one of the great festival foods.
Quick.
Filling.
Easy to eat.
And capable of bringing someone back from the dead after they’ve spent several hours standing at the barrier.
And there’s garlic bread.
Beautiful. 🍕
🍛 Curry Box
Curry Dishes
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
For those who like a bit of spice with their riffs, Curry Box will be dishing out curry throughout Stonedead.
All four dietary categories are marked on the festival’s guide too.
🔥🔥🔥
☕ Beyond Coffee
Hot and Cold Drinks and Baked Goods
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Need another caffeine hit?
Beyond Coffee has hot and cold drinks alongside baked goodies.
Because one coffee at a festival is merely the opening act.
🍟 Dirty PIG
Loaded Fries
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Oh dear.
Loaded fries.
One of the most dangerous phrases in the festival vocabulary.
You tell yourself you’re only having something small.
Ten minutes later you’re carrying around a tray containing approximately half a potato farm.
No regrets. 🍟😂
🤘 Rock & Roll Toastie Co.
Toasted Sandwiches and Loaded Fries
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
They’re called Rock & Roll Toastie Co.
They’re at Stonedead.
They sell toasties and loaded fries.
Frankly, that’s enough information for us.
🥔 L & B Catering
Baked Potatoes with Various Fillings
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ❌
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ❌
Never underestimate the mighty jacket potato.
After hours of festival food, beer and rock ‘n’ roll, a massive baked spud covered in filling can suddenly feel like the greatest meal ever created.
🍖 Farmer Lou
Roast with Mash and Sausage & Mash
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ❌
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
A roast dinner…
AT STONEDEAD?!
Now we’re talking.
Roast and mash plus sausage and mash are on the menu here.
Just don’t blame us if you immediately fancy a nap afterwards. 😂
🏕️ Really Good Food – Campsite
Breakfast Rolls, Burgers and Pizza
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Campers, pay attention.
Really Good Food is listed in the campsite, serving breakfast rolls, burgers and pizza.
That breakfast roll could become extremely important the morning after the night before.
You know the routine:
Wake up.
Question your life choices.
Locate coffee.
Locate breakfast.
Become human again.
🤘😂
🥙 Feast Street
Gyros, Yorkshire Pud, Fish & Chips and More
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Feast Street sounds like absolute chaos in the best possible way.
Gyros?
Yorkshire pudding?
Fish and chips?
And more?!
There’s one particularly important thing to remember here:
💳 FEAST STREET IS CARD PAYMENT ONLY
Don’t wander over waving a tenner around like someone’s dad at a village fête.
Get the card or phone ready.
🍔 Route 66 Eats
Breakfast Burgers & Fries
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
Breakfast burgers.
There’s something wonderfully rock ‘n’ roll about combining those two words.
If you’re camping at Stonedead and wondering whether eating a burger in the morning is acceptable…
You’re at a rock festival.
Of course it bloody is. 😂🍔
🍗 Fat Eddie’s
Fried Chicken and Fries
🌱 Vegetarian ❌
🌿 Vegan ❌
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ❌
Sometimes simplicity wins.
Fried chicken.
Fries.
Done.
Grab it, find somewhere to sit and get yourself ready for another battering of riffs.
🔥 Firehouse Kebabs
Halloumi, Tikka, Tandoori and Doners
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ❌
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ❌
Halloumi, tikka, tandoori and doner options?
That’s some proper festival kebab business.
Perfect for when hunger suddenly goes from:
“I could eat something.”
to:
“IF I DON’T GET FOOD IN THE NEXT FOUR MINUTES I’M EATING MY LANYARD.”
🍖 Rockin Ribz
Babyback Ribs and Fries
🌱 Vegetarian ✅
🌿 Vegan ✅
🌾 Gluten-Free ✅
🥜 Nut-Allergy Options ✅
And finally…
BABYBACK RIBS. 🍖🔥🤘
Now THAT sounds like Stonedead food.
Battle jacket on.
Band playing somewhere nearby.
Massive portion of ribs.
Sauce absolutely everywhere.
Zero dignity.
Maximum happiness.
🌱 Plenty of Vegetarian & Vegan Choice
One of the best things about Stonedead’s food line-up is the amount of choice available beyond the traditional burger-and-chips combination.
Vegetarian options are indicated at almost every trader on the official guide, while plenty also list vegan choices.
That’s a massive improvement on the festival experience of years gone by when asking for vegetarian food occasionally resulted in someone pointing towards a tray of chips.
We’ve evolved, mun. 😂🌱
🌾 Gluten-Free Festival-Goers Have Options Too
There are also plenty of traders indicating gluten-free choices.
Coffee Vagabond, Oriental Kitchen, El Burrito, Fodder & Flute, Demsi’s Diner, London Pie & Mash, Curry Box, Beyond Coffee, Dirty PIG, Rock & Roll Toastie Co., L & B Catering, Farmer Lou, Really Good Food, Feast Street, Route 66 Eats, Fat Eddie’s and Rockin Ribz all show gluten-free availability on the festival guide.
Again, anyone with coeliac disease or another medical dietary requirement should confirm ingredients and preparation directly with the vendor before ordering.
🥜 Food Allergies — Speak to the Traders
Stonedead’s graphic also identifies traders offering options suitable for those with nut allergies.
However, anyone dealing with a serious allergy should never rely solely on a festival graphic.
Speak directly with the trader about:
- Ingredients
- Preparation areas
- Cooking equipment
- Cross-contamination
- Any other allergens relevant to you
It takes a minute and could be extremely important.
🍔 The Riff Report’s Stonedead Food Strategy
Right then.
We’ve analysed this menu with approximately the same seriousness normally reserved for working out festival stage clashes.
The current plan:
☕ Coffee Vagabond — wake us up
🍳 Really Good Food — breakfast roll
🌯 El Burrito — lunchtime
🍟 Dirty PIG — loaded fries
🍕 Firehouse Pizzas — because pizza
🥧 London Pie & Mash — because we’re British
🍖 Rockin Ribz — because BABYBACK RIBS
🍰 Demsi’s Diner — pudding
Then we’ll check the bank account afterwards and quietly cry into a Greggs sausage roll.
Festival economics. 😂
🤘 STONEDEAD 2026 IS SERVING UP SOME SERIOUS SCRAN
Stonedead Festival already knows how to deliver a proper old-school rock ‘n’ roll day out, and its 2026 food offering looks absolutely stacked.
You’ve got Mexican dishes.
Japanese and Korean food.
Curry.
Pizza.
Kebabs.
Loaded fries.
Toasties.
Handmade pies.
Roast dinners.
Breakfast rolls.
Burgers.
Fried chicken.
Fish and chips.
Sweet treats.
Coffee.
And, because apparently Stonedead wants to completely destroy our self-control…
BABYBACK RIBS.
Whether you’re vegetarian, vegan, looking for gluten-free choices or simply planning to consume enough carbohydrates to survive an entire day of riffs, there looks to be plenty to choose from.
Just remember to check directly with the vendor if you’ve got allergies or specific dietary requirements.
Otherwise?
Bring your appetite.
Bring your bank card.
Bring your battle jacket.
And we’ll see you somewhere near the loaded fries.
STONEDEAD 2026 — COME FOR THE RIFFS, STAY BECAUSE YOU’VE JUST ORDERED A MASSIVE PIE. 🤘🔥🥧
The Riff Report Blog
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