Citi Discipline doesn’t provide home-run-of-the-mill stadium fare.
For the 2025 season, the Mets are dishing up a connoisseur grand slam with Kwame Onwuachi’s mouthwatering meat patties, a customizable tomahawk steak at Pat LaFrieda’s Chop Home and extra.
The elevated choices are a part of Citi Discipline’s mission to mirror New York Metropolis’s various delicacies scene, the place Korean fried hen bumps elbows with ballpark franks.
“If you stroll round, you will get one thing from barbecue to Latin to Asian,” Citi Discipline Senior Govt Chef Jason Eksterowicz informed The Publish. “We now have one thing for everyone.”
Their technique seems to be working — Citi Discipline simply gained USA In the present day’s 10Best Readers’ Selection Award for Finest Baseball Stadium Meals for the third consecutive yr.
The Publish previewed this season’s Citi Discipline menu so followers will know what to anticipate on the group’s first residence sport this Friday towards the Toronto Blue Jays.
Pat Lafrieda Tomahawk steak
The belle of the ballpark is the dry-aged tomahawk steak — a brilliant tender, bat-sized bone branded with the Mets brand — at Pat LaFrieda’s Chop Home within the Clover Residence Plate Membership.
As Mel Landano, restaurant undertaking supervisor and Mel’s Butcher Field founder, informed The Publish: The place else are you able to order “a tomahawk for 2, sit down in a restaurant after which go watch a baseball sport?”
Tipping the scales at 38 oz., this Flinstones-evoking hunk of meat is round thrice the scale of a standard steakhouse rib eye. It is going to run as a particular the value has not been set but.
Followers can get it custom-engraved as properly.
“You’re right here in your anniversary or Valentine’s or a celebration, no matter, we are able to have Pat LaFrieda himself rebrand it on the warehouse, and we ship it over to the Mets [stadium],” Landano stated.
Patty Palace
The rookie of the yr award ought to go to Patty Palace by Chef Kwame Onwuachi, whose high-end Caribbean restaurant Tatiana is so fashionable that one diner flew in from Bermuda simply to eat dinner there.
Holding with the theme of his Manhattan flagship, this fast-casual spot makes a speciality of fashionable “remixes” of the standard Caribbean fare, together with the tasty curried hen patty with jerk BBQ, coleslaw and inexperienced sauce, bookended by pillowy coco buns.
Simply don’t add “an excessive amount of” Habanero dip sauce — as a result of “it’s actually sizzling,” “Prime Chef” alum Onwuachi warned The Publish.
Adam Richman’s Burger Corridor of Fame
Yankees star Juan Soto wasn’t the Mets’ solely large get this yr — Adam Richman’s Burger Corridor of Fame has collaborated with LaFrieda to “induct” two new burgers impressed by his travels overseas.
Baseball followers can chew into the Fiesta Burger with Mexican cheese, spicy guacamole, tortilla chips and extra.
There’s additionally the Pub Burger stacked with thick-cut bacon, melted leeks, pork rinds and Welsh rarebit — Wales’ reply to beer cheese — with a pretzel roll pinch-hitting for a sesame bun.
“I reside in England for a pair months out of a yr, and I realized from this chef in Wales the best way to make correct Welsh rarebit,” the “Man v. Meals” alum informed The Publish, noting its “velvety consistency.”
Better of all, the patties are medium uncommon within the heart, elevating it above your common ballpark hockey puck.
Korean Fried Rooster at Judy Joo’s Seoul Chicken
One other residence run is Seoul Chicken’s well-known fried hen, which is brined for twenty-four hours till lush inside after which double-fried to kind a crackling exterior.
There’s additionally a model that’s served atop a mattress of short-grain kimchi-fried rice and veggies.
Pig Seaside BBQ
A changeup from the same old barbecue meats, Pig Seaside BBQ’s Smoked Turkey Sando is served with heat and tangy vinegar slaw and Alabama white sauce atop a Martin’s potato roll.
Eksterowicz described it as a “sleeper” hit, gushing, “Folks have a look at it they usually’re, like, ‘Smoked turkey — whose thought was that?’ Eat that sandwich and inform me that it’s not good.”
The remainder
And that’s only a pattern of the Mets’ culinary bullpen.
Different heavy hitters embrace the Spicy Spring (a sq. slice with Fra Diavolo sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni) at Prince Road Pizza, multi-meat gyros at Naz’s Halal Meals, Chiddy’s Cheesesteaks and jerk turkey meatballs at Fieldtrip by Chef JJ Johnson.
“You have a look at the town as that type of melting pot,” Eksterowicz informed The Publish, including that the objective was to seize that essence in “one constructing.”
In homage to the colourful residence borough, Citi Discipline will showcase a “Style of Queens” meals truck that includes a rotating roster of native expertise, beginning with Ozone Park Colombian restaurant eatery Arepalicious — identified for its signature cheese arepa topped with shredded hen, cotija cheese and home sauce — from Friday, April 4, by July 6.
For dessert, swap out the Cracker Jacks for vendor Metropolitan Fry Manufacturing facility’s crispy fried Oreos with chocolate sauce.
Simply beware: Your arteries will get clogged quicker than Shea Bridge on sport day.
