champagne at the ballpark. That told me all I needed to know. And excuse me, but “gossamer coating?” Yeesh. Trollope called; he and 19th Century want their prose back. Look, I’m all for fine-dining, but I don’t go to Alinea and order a hot dog; don’t blast ballparks that don’t serve champagne and truffle mayonnaise. These thing are different in kind, not in degree. You can’t hold a ballpark to the same culinary standard as a restaurant.

Rant over.

Avoid everything and order nothing. My and my Dad are trying to get to every ball park.

Take this from a person whose diet is around 70% potato. The garlic fries are worth the wait.

I recently tried the “all you can eat seats” and they were horrible! lines were long,food was awful!

Most food at Petco isn’t very good. But the Rubio’s Fish tacos are a SD favorite. Although you can get then for a quarter of the price at Rubio’s all over SD county. The dogs are passable—the reviewer must have had a bad one. The Fish & Chips from Anthony’s aren’t bad and The Randy Jones barbeque is good, but way overpriced.

The major problem at Petco is with the service. SportsService/Delaware North has a great scam going. Fund-raising groups are invited to “work” the stands, and get a cut of the ‘profit’ that stand makes. Free labor! Every Night! Free labor, evey night,. Free labor, ON THEIR FIRST DAY, EVERY DAY! So how did you do on your first day on your new job? A little slow? Not sure what you might be doing? Service is THE SLOWEST IN BASEBALL. And, as word gets around that groups don’t really get much coin from this offering—I notice that more stands are NOT labeled “Served By: (your group here) ” any more. My goodness, they have hired actual employees….

So, I just go to the Chicago Hot Dog joint a few blocks away from Petco before I go to the park. And, yes, Italian Beef Sandwiches are available outside Illinois. (Portillo’s has 2 CA locations, in the O-C and in Riverside County. SD has about 5 Chicago hot dog/beef/sausage joints.

“Dodger Dogs” are among the best I’ve ever had at a ball park, so the reviewer is incorrect.

Never buy a nationally franchised product at a ball park, by the way. No Carl’s Jr, no CPK. Avoid.

I remember food at The Cell (last time I was there was 1994) as being very, very good.

travels, I try to find the best food that the park has to offer, but at the same time, we attempt to find the best signature foods of the cities we’re visiting as well. We don’t go to fancy restaurants or fast food chains, instead – figuring Chicago is known for Italian Beef and Deep Dish Pizza – we try to find the Italian beef and deep dish pizza type food for each town.

At the ballparks, my favorites are the pastrami sandwich at Shea, the brats at Miller, and the pierogies at PNC. Outide, in the city, the garlic roast beef at Mayslack’s in Minneapolis, Primanti Bros. capicola sandwich, and Arthur Bryant’s bbq in KC are the tops. However, the best ballpark food I’ve ever had was the bbq nachos at AutoZone Park in Memphis. I sometimes dream about those nachos.

is nice park, but it doesn’t sell chocolate malt cups (or as I call them, frosty malts). Thats one of my #1 purchases at Wrigley

I had the Ice Cream at Jacobs Field (Progressive Field now) and it is top notch. The The Cincinatti opinion was right. The Cheese Coney was delicioso, and the nachos werent too good. At busch, although it is said to avoid, I thought the toasted ravioli was good. The brats in Milwaukee are good too. I thought this was a pretty nice (as well as correct) article. Although, I do agree with Al, the cell does have some good food.

...be classified as “food”? Cuz that’s my favorite.

Dan

The grilled “Chicago dogs” are fabulous. The dogs that the guys walking around have, or that they have at the regular concession stands, are convenience store quality.

Gordon Biersch’s garlic flies are the best with a lot of minced garlic – I love it.

I am an Illinois native living in Northern California as a result of job choices. The Marine Corps brought me out here and a good job offer (and my wife) keep me out here for now. That being said…I never miss a Cubs game at Pac Bell Park and agree with the article somewhat . The Crab sandwich at Pac Bell is awesome! I thought the Gilroy garlic fries were good tho…and I have had them in Gilroy too at their Garlic festival. Pac Bell is a decent ballpark with it’s intimate feel but can u imagine champagne at a ball game. Too many suits and ties at a Giants game…it’s baseball for crying out loud. I always get disgusted looks while I root loudly for the Cubbies. Good thing tho is that there is almost more Cubs fans than Giants fans when we play there.

I get free tickets to the A’s games thru my work. They do have good BBQ from Kinders which is a franchise located throughout NorCal. I also like their jumbo dogs. This year every Wednesday has been dollar dog day which cant be beat. A hotdog for $1 is what a ball park was meant to be! Oakland could use some more fans to fill up that stadium tho. I work in Fremont where they will be moving and wonder if that changes things.

Anyway…got tickets for the Cubs – Giants series at the end of the month and beginning of July. I cant wait to piss off the Giants fans even tho I wil be sitting with one. I will try to get some pics to post on this site. I have to work during the first two games so I only got tickets for the final two (thank God for a 4 game series). I have awesome tickets for the first game…4 rows back just behind the Cubbies on deck circle. Go Cubbies!!!

is like being at a Mexican restaurant. Quesadilla’s and sangria are prominent. I had some nachos there one night…..the cheese was good and the jalepeno’s deliciously hot. Second night….one giant italian sausage that was also pretty good. They didn’t have sauerkraut though (who doesn’t have sauerkraut??) so that knocked my overall rating down to a ‘6’.

at Chase Field. I was at Game Two last October and sampled these along with a cold O’Douls. I was pleased that the park offered non-alcoholic beer since I don’t drink the real stuff. The person I was with had chicken fingers and fries….the fries were horrid but the chicken actually very good. Who would’ve thought that???

he lost credibility. The food at the Cell is good. The hotdogs at Wrigley, while not amazing, aren’t terrible. There are certainly worse foods there (the fries come to mind).

At the BOB—or whatever it’s called today. That is heaven, though not very baseball-y. I’m out of doing anything with beer other than cooking with it, so I’d be looking at different adult beverages.

That said, my favourite Wrigley food is those darn nachos. They’re greasy and disgusting, but damn fine. Everyone needs the occasional artery-clogging meal.

—t.

Had an AWESOME gyro. Would highly recommend it.