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CitiField vs. Yankee Stadium - Dining Options
Posted: 10:03 am, June 10th, 2009 in Eating in Other Areas of NYC
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depends...you can either have Carls or Shake Shack...two diferent worlds in my opinion...equally good but i cant satisfy my craving for a great burger with a great cheese steak and vice versa.
carls is def more filling thoough but that goes without saying.
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Have you been to these at the stadiums? ie, do you know how they compare to their originals?
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My experience was the same as the writers said in both the NY Times & Wall St Journal: CitiField hits a grand slam when to comes to food. Tasty AND cheap! Makes the extortionate ticket prices a bit easier to swallow.
Ribs at Blue Smoke - great deal, 4 huge ones for $10
Pulled pork sandwich a good tasty deal tooShake Shack gets great flavor / great value prize for $5.25 burgers but the line is huge. Get there early.
Box Frites - twice fried begian style, good sauces, very crisy and the large order is HUGE. Unfinishable by one human.
The beer place has great selection but a bit of a rip-off at $7 a bottle. Actually, for a ballpark that's not bad, but compared to the rest of the reasonably priced and delicious food it seems high.
I hear the taco joint is good but have not tried. Was very happy with everything I did try as listed above.
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I will say the food at the New Yankee Stadium is still shit. Besides the astronomical prices (10 bucks for NAchos??? FU!), the actual food sucks. Granted, I did not have a cheesesteak, but I did have the pizza (barf), the fried pickles (nasty, cold and poorly seasoned), Garlic Fries (again, nasty, cold, and poorly seasoned), Popcorn (how could they let go those amazing old popcorn machines??-the new Stadium popcorn tastes like Special K (the cereal). Sure, I could spend 15 bucks on a steak sandwich there,or 10 bucks on a carl's, but that's just dumb.
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I've only been to citi, but Box Frites is excellent.
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Wayne - why does everyone keep saying the ticket prices are really high? I've been to games where the tickets are like $15. And games where they're $30. Neither is all that high, and it's in keeping with Shea prices.
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Shea had $5 games all through the season. Cheap seats were $10-$15 and you could get them every game. Cheap seats at citi are drastically cut down, since it has 10,000 less seats.
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Only been to the new Yankee Stadium and I had the Lobel's Prime Rib sandwich. I got to say, I would pay $15 for that sandwich at any restaurant. It was excellent.
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BenBen- the $5 seats at Shea had zero access to the rest of the stadium and a no-alcohol policy.
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What BenBen said. And besides less cheap sets, comparable good seats are way pricier. That said, I loved Shea but after one visit to CitiField you'll forget Shea existed. It is a gorgeous park.
This will show you how much prices have escalated for "decent" seats:
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ticketing/seating_pricing.jsp
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I've heard that the steak sandwich tastes good---I just can't fathom paying 15 bucks for it. I heard it wasn't very hearty.
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@Wayne, i've never been nor seen it, but re: your statement on Box Frites of "unfinishable by one human". willing to place a wager? haha....
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Don't let the highest priced tiers scare you. I sit in Promenade Infield and they're great seats. (I have the Sunday plan, which is 10 Sunday home games and 5 weekday games... that part pissed me off, that they no longer give you every Sunday home game - which is what I had last year.)
Having said that, I'm excited to go to Yankee Stadium for the first time this Sunday to try some of the food. My friends have a Saturday plan, so I'll be following their lead mostly for food.
As for CF, out of the Taste of the City section, I only have the tacos left to try.
http://feistyfoodie.blogspot.com/search/label/baseball
I didn't like the pulled pork sandwich that much, but the ribs were a great deal and really delicious.
Box Frites are great, but trying all the sauces gets to be a bit expensive, haha.
Catch of the Day made me sick. Fish sandwiches, lobster rolls, under a heat lamp? Not good.
Shake Shack was by far and away the most disappointing - probably because I've had the Madison Square Park one countless times - but it did not hold up to those standards (that post hasn't gone up yet on my blog).Mama's of Corona is always a great stop for huge Italian sandwiches, less than $10 - and the BF loves their chocolate covered cannolis. The chocolate pudding, tiramisu was pretty good too.
I think next on my list, beyond tacos, is the Nachos Grande carts that are scattered around the stadium. There's one on the Promenade level as you come off the escalator and walk around to my section (behind home plate; where one of the Mama's of Corona is located). Mmm, nachos.
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So, have you been to one of the new stadiums? Both? What did you think of the food? What did you have? If you've been to both, which one did you like better (for food)?
We can leave actual baseball talk out of this discussion if you guys like... I'm down either way, especially in light of last name's excellent game.