Vegan Report: Citi Field
June 1, 2009
I took my first trip to the new stadium of the Mets this past Saturday for their Take Her Out To The Ballgame day. The new stadium is nice, save for the small Times Square peeking high into the sky ’round its perimeter. It’s a brand new stadium so it is fresh and clean. And that is about it really. I miss the big blue monster I visited in my youth, miss the 44-year-old blood, sweat and tears within it.
Sitting pretty close to the clouds, my Mets lady and I climbed to each level touring the stadium’s food offerings. Not suprisingly, Citi Field has slim vegetarian offerings. In World’s Fare Market on Field level you can get a packaged avocado roll for $9.00 or a packaged rice noodle dish for an equally inflated price, along with a large selection of trail mixes and some sorry-looking pieces of fruit. You can also score some Belgium-cut fries with a side of roasted garlic chipotle dipping sauce at Box Frites in the outfield concourse. (Although the dip sounds yummy it doesn’t complement the fries as well as the standard red stuff… high fructose corn syrup-infused Heinz ketchup!) That’s really it… no vegan blue and orange cookies for sale. Next time I’ll have to sneak them in. 