Citi Field doesn’t offer home-run-of-the-mill stadium fare.
For the 2025 season, the Mets are dishing up a gourmet grand slam with Kwame Onwuachi’s mouthwatering meat patties, a customizable tomahawk steak at Pat LaFrieda’s Chop House and more.
The elevated offerings are part of Citi Field’s mission to reflect New York City’s diverse cuisine scene, where Korean fried chicken bumps elbows with ballpark franks.
“When you walk around, you can get something from barbecue to Latin to Asian,” Citi Field Senior Executive Chef Jason Eksterowicz told The Post. “We have something for everybody.”
Their strategy appears to be working — Citi Field just won USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Award for Best Baseball Stadium Food for the third consecutive year.
The Post previewed this season’s Citi Field menu so fans will know what to expect at the team’s first home game this Friday against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Pat Lafrieda Tomahawk steak
The belle of the ballpark is the dry-aged tomahawk steak — a super tender, bat-sized bone branded with the Mets logo — at Pat LaFrieda’s Chop House in the Clover Home Plate Club.
As Mel Landano, restaurant project manager and Mel’s Butcher Box founder, told The Post: Where else can you order “a tomahawk for two, sit down in a restaurant and then go watch a baseball game?”
Tipping the scales at 38 oz., this Flinstones-evoking hunk of meat is around three times the size of a normal steakhouse rib eye. It will run as a special the price has not been set yet.
Mets Suite members can get it custom-engraved as well.
“You’re here on your anniversary or Valentine’s or a birthday party, whatever, we can have Pat LaFrieda himself rebrand it at the warehouse, and we send it over to the Mets [stadium],” Landano said.
Patty Palace
The rookie of the year award should go to Patty Palace by Chef Kwame Onwuachi, whose high-end Caribbean restaurant Tatiana is so popular that one diner flew in from Bermuda just to eat dinner there.
Keeping with the theme of his Manhattan flagship, this fast-casual spot specializes in modern “remixes” of the traditional Caribbean fare, including the tasty curried chicken patty with jerk BBQ, coleslaw and green sauce, bookended by pillowy coco buns.
Just don’t add “too much” Habanero dip sauce — because “it’s really hot,” “Top Chef” alum Onwuachi warned The Post.
Adam Richman’s Burger Hall of Fame
Yankees star Juan Soto wasn’t the Mets’ only big get this year — Adam Richman’s Burger Hall of Fame has collaborated with LaFrieda to “induct” two new burgers inspired by his travels abroad.
Baseball fans can bite into the Fiesta Burger with Mexican cheese, spicy guacamole, tortilla chips and more.
There’s also the Pub Burger stacked with thick-cut bacon, melted leeks, pork rinds and Welsh rarebit — Wales’ answer to beer cheese — with a pretzel roll pinch-hitting for a sesame bun.
“I live in England for a couple months out of a year, and I learned from this chef in Wales how to make proper Welsh rarebit,” the “Man v. Food” alum told The Post, noting its “velvety consistency.”
Best of all, the patties are medium rare in the center, elevating it above your average ballpark hockey puck.
Korean Fried Chicken at Judy Joo’s Seoul Bird
Another home run is Seoul Bird’s famous fried chicken, which is brined for 24 hours until lush inside and then double-fried to form a crackling exterior.
There’s also a version that’s served atop a bed of short-grain kimchi-fried rice and veggies.
Pig Beach BBQ
A changeup from the usual barbecue meats, Pig Beach BBQ’s Smoked Turkey Sando is served with warm and tangy vinegar slaw and Alabama white sauce atop a Martin’s potato roll.
Eksterowicz described it as a “sleeper” hit, gushing, “People look at it and they’re, like, ‘Smoked turkey — whose idea was that?’ Eat that sandwich and tell me that it’s not good.”
The rest
And that’s just a sample of the Mets’ culinary bullpen.
Other heavy hitters include the Spicy Spring (a square slice with Fra Diavolo sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni) at Prince Street Pizza, multi-meat gyros at Naz’s Halal Food, Chiddy’s Cheesesteaks and jerk turkey meatballs at Fieldtrip by Chef JJ Johnson.
“You look at the city as that kind of melting pot,” Eksterowicz told The Post, adding that the goal was to capture that essence in “one building.”
In homage to the colorful home borough, Citi Field will showcase a “Taste of Queens” food truck featuring a rotating roster of local talent, starting with Ozone Park Colombian restaurant eatery Arepalicious — known for its signature cheese arepa topped with shredded chicken, cotija cheese and house sauce — from Friday, April 4, through July 6.
For dessert, swap out the Cracker Jacks for vendor Metropolitan Fry Factory’s crispy fried Oreos with chocolate sauce.
Just beware: Your arteries will get clogged faster than Shea Bridge on game day.
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