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User’s Guide: What to Eat at
Yankee Stadium
4/16/09 at 1:24 PM Comment
Today is opening day at the new Yankee Stadium, which makes
this a good time for a short discussion of the new ballpark’s
culinary achievements. Across town, Citi Field debuted this
season with an impressive food program, including venues run
by Danny Meyer, Drew Nieporent, and Dave Pasternack. In the
Bronx, the offerings are significantly less exciting, and if you
want to know why, one restaurateur affiliated with the new Citi Field put it like this: “The Yankees,
it’s like they’re telling Frank Sinatra he has to pay you to sing. The Mets are paying us. They got
what they needed to do to get us here.” (To wit: We hear that even the visiting celebrity chefs at
Yankee Stadium will be paid in tickets, not cash.) But still, the food is better now than it ever has
been — no longer are chicken fingers your only option. Here’s a look at the spread; just don’t try to
order during “God Bless America”.
The Food Court, Third Base, Field Level
The food court is a great, open area, surrounded by the stands and food vendors on three sides (the
exterior wall of the stadium is on the fourth). There’s pizza and deli-type fare, as well as noodles,
sake, and sushi; the inevitable Bronx Roll is an inside-out roll of spicy salmon and cucumber
around rice and avocado, topped off with spicy mayo. Mike’s Arthur Avenue Deli has hot
sandwiches — meatball, chicken, and eggplant parms, among others — and baked ziti and zeppole
(six for $12; 1,066 calories). Famiglia Pizza sells a slice that’s more or less a slice. While you’re
chowing, enjoy the inspired décor — a dozen jumbo photos of Yankee legends eating.
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Carl’s Steaks/La Esquina Latina, Garlic Fries, Right Field, Field Level
Here’s your chicken-finger pick-up spot, and they’re good. Carl’s Steaks made the trip from the old
stadium, but has expanded into a full kitchen on location and out of the horrendous capacity issues
of yore. La Esquina Latina, a glorified and underperforming burrito joint, serves one types of
megaburrito, the Moe’s Homewrecker Burrito. Best bet there is the Cuban sandwich. Garlic fries are
unhealthy and junky as all hell, but pretty damn good.
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The best single food item in the entire stadium is Lobel’s USDA dry-aged sliced-steak sandwich on a
house-made bun. In left field, Lobel’s, the Hermés of meats to La Frieda’s Gucci, has a life-size
diorama fashioned as an aging room complete with real working butchers, and next to it a cart
where you can get the sandwich. The meat is salty and rich and served sliced, medium rare. It
would be the stuff of legend in Manhattan, let alone Yankee Stadium. Avoid Johnny Rocket’s
chicken fingers (they’re better unbranded elsewhere), but do get an order of Brother Jimmy’s fried
pickles, the best of what the BBQ mini-chain is offering.
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All levels feature variations on these concepts, and it appears that you’ve got myriad options on all
levels.
Hard Rock Café: It’s a tourist trap to begin with and this one has no view of the field. But in the
rain, it’s one of the few fully sheltered areas open to the public.
NYY Steak: No view of the field here, either, and you need a reservation. 646-97-STEAK (78325).
Beer Garden: Center field, in full view of the action.
Legends Suites: Ticket-holders have access to several buffets prepared by guest stars like April
Bloomfield and Morimoto.
Front Row Field Views: You’ll find them only at Mohegan Sun Club in center field and the Audi
Club on the H&R Block Suite Level (yes, they’ve sold naming rights to everything but the urinal
cakes), but, excruciatingly, both are membership-only and involve heavy sign-up fees.
Melissa’s: This fruit stand is behind the main entrance. If the lines and chaos don’t become
oppressive, it’s a welcome addition.
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