Comments on: Review: Great American Ball Park

By: The Boyfriend Finds Himself in Deep Deux-Deux: Ballpark Food II | wine me, dine me

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:22:23 +0000

[...] as Julie noted in a post from early last season, the food concessions services at GABP leave much to be [...]

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:40:00 +0000

k– at a later game, I got a goetta dog. Flavorful, but kinda dry.

Jaime– got the garlic fries. They would have been better had the fries actually been crisp and not half-cooked.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:44:00 +0000

They have garlic fries at GABP now, I haven’t tried them but I have heard they are tasty.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:55:00 +0000

You’ve never told me about the garlic fries! We should have used those free plane tickets to go to San Francisco.

By: The Boyfriend

The Boyfriend — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:51:00 +0000

As Julie said, whenever I walk into a Major League ballpark, I understand as I pass through the gate that I will be paying obscene prices for food and drink. I understand. I get it. And honestly? It’s OK. Really.

But there is no excuse for charging such exorbitant prices for such bad food. I would think that Reds/GABP front office people would be embarrassed by it.

I’ve visited close to a dozen MLB parks through the years. And ALL of them have better food than Great American. And not just better…MARKEDLY better. The hot dogs at Wrigley are terrific. The garlic fries at AT&T Park in San Francisco are legendary and positively orgasmic (and guaranteed to ward off vampires for a lifetime). The knishes at Shea in New York, though pre-fabs, are still fairly tasty. The crab cakes at Camden Yards, though not up to most restaurant standards, are also quite good.

The best bet at GABP is to stay with items that have names attached to them…Skyline cheese coneys…LaRosa’s pizza…Montgomery Inn pulled pork sandwiches.

But when I go to a ball game, I want a hot dog. I guess for the time being, I’ll stick with the Big Red Smokey…and smother it with mustard and onions.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:49:00 +0000

Hey, K– I didn’t see any goetta dogs, though I’d totally try one.

By: k

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:45:00 +0000

sorry, typo – goetta (not that you didn’t realize that)

By: k

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:43:00 +0000

sadly, i love ballpark food and can drop a large amount of cash at a game. do they have the goetts dogs again this year?

By: vudutu

vudutu — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Im with you 5chw4r7z, I have been boycotting the obscene pro sports scene since the stadium fiasco. Back around 2000 I won second place in CityBeats That’s Soooo Cincinnati contest with this.
“Taxing me to buy a football stadium for a millionaire, that houses only one team, an open-air stadium in a city that has unpredictable weather, that hosts only 10 games a year for a sport I don’t like, that will block the river from my city, and then, if I do want to go, making me pay an outrageous price to watch millionaires play millionaires.”

By: becauseweloveit

becauseweloveit — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:43:00 +0000

I am with you on the dogs. I was just playing golf at a random course outside of Baltimore and got an all beef hot dog on the turn and it was great. I immediately thought to myself, why can’t the Reds have this? It was double the size, eight times the flavor and only cost four bucks.