New Yankee stadium-food by Elaine's, Le Cirque, & Food Networks chefs including Masaharu Morimoto

[underpants]

But those who settle into the 4,000 or so well-upholstered seats of the various club and suite areas, which can cost as much as $2,500, will have access to much more.

A number of restaurants and dining areas will be for their exclusive enjoyment. And the food will be prepared at open cooking stations run, from time to time, by Masaharu Morimoto of “Iron Chef” fame, April Bloomfield of the Spotted Pig, chefs from Le Cirque and cooks from Elaine’s (because Elaine Kaufman is a big Yankees fan).

Those seated in the Delta 360 Club, which has 1,200 seats, will have access to a dining room where chefs from the Food Network will occasionally cook at two open kitchens.

On the broad concourse of food stands and carts for all fans, including those in the bleachers, there will be a small Lobel’s outlet. Outside a window, where butchers will be seen cutting dry-aged strip loins for the club restaurants, there will be the Triple Play Grill, a cart that will sell sandwiches of freshly sliced Lobel dry-aged prime rib ($15) along with beef and chicken sliders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/dining/25yanks.html?_r=1

[Bunny]

1. Yeah, that's nice and all, but whatta ya gotta do to get a hot dog around there?

:shrug:

[Blue_Tires]

2. how far away is the day when only the top 1 percent can afford to see a game?

15 years? 10?

[Chan790]

3. Soon.

One of the production companies I do a lot of work for got free club seats from some party who wants to keep them happy. I didn't ask questions, it's not my business and the less I know about the business the happier I am...it's like sausage-making in that respect.

Mind you, not one of those assholes knows the first thing about baseball and do you think they'd let GOP roommate(He's my boss when I do work for them. He's a Yankees fan.) and I (I'm just talent. I mean no reason to keep me happy. :eyes: I'm a Red Sox fan.) have the club seats for any of the Sox/Yanks games? F&ck No! They'll go or send clients and in neither case will anybody actually be watching the game.

[Blue_Tires]

6. like your blog...will read more when i can

i used to be a (newspaper) journalist back when things were still good in the business...

[tk2kewl]

8. story in newsday today...

you wanna sit 5 rows behind the dugout for an ordinary early season game? bring $2600; and thats just for one seat if you buy a package of ten!

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/ny-spbest256082453mar25,0,2603155.column

[underpants]

11. The Englis Premier League has almost fully "yuppified" their games

read a book called "How Soccer explains the world" by a New Republic writer a few years ago. They basically tried and did get rid of the soccer hoolligan part of their crowd. There is a whole hoolligan literature world but they are personally stopped from traveling to some games.

That is what this sounds like.

[surrealAmerican]

4. That's very sad.

Baseball's main strength was how democratic it was. The time when ordinary people could easily afford a ticket, and wealthy people would sit with them is over.

[bif]

5. It's not about the game anymore. How sad!

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. What I like is how they get taxpayers to pay for it, then price them out of attending.

Thank God for professional sports!!


Does anyone hear the funeral bells of the Roman Empire ringing in this one?

I do.

[supernova]

9. Yankee Stadium's going froo froo?

What a shame.

Who goes to a ball game to nosh gourmet?

[lost-in-nj]

10. last time I went to a Yankees game

was probably 2005

and they didn't sell Cracker Jacks anymore
because the company wouldn't put them in bags instead of boxes......

they had Crunch & Munch

:wtf: :shrug:

on the other hand i am going to a Yanks-Devil Rays game next month in FL


lost

[Lance_Boyle]

12. Jeez - that's the kind of fare I'd expect at the Dean Dome! n/t

[cloudbase]

13. When I was a kid

I could get a seat in the bleachers at Forbes Field for a buck.

[Ikonoklast]

14. One more reason to hate the Yankmees.

Now even the food they serve is pretentious.