$15 Pastrami Sandwich

[Maxman]

I put this out on Facebook and got some people mad. But I will be damned if I am not going to get an answer. Anyone try the $15 pastrami sandwich at the new stadium?

Reviews?

[visajets]

I put this out on Facebook and got some people mad. But I will be damned if I am not going to get an answer. Anyone try the $15 pastrami sandwich at the new stadium?

Reviews?

My son had the $8.00 pulled pork sandwich in the TouchDown club.

[JoeC36]

I put this out on Facebook and got some people mad. But I will be damned if I am not going to get an answer. Anyone try the $15 pastrami sandwich at the new stadium?

Reviews?

i havent and frankly i refuse to. I can get a 16" pastrami sub with LTO for 5.50 at the deli down the street.

[faba]

No but I had a $10 beer.

[JoeC36]

No but I had a $10 beer.

ya me too. i also tried the taylor ham and cheese horrible. They give you 2 pieces of taylor ham with unmelted cheese on a huge roll for like $6.

[faba]

ya me too. i also tried the taylor ham and cheese horrible. They give you 2 pieces of taylor ham with unmelted cheese on a huge roll for like $6.

At least I did not get proofed!

[The Crusher]

I'd pay $15 for a badboy dat looked like dis..

[Mandarinia]

I'd pay $15 for a badboy dat looked like dis..

I would have sex with that

[The Crusher]

I would have sex with that

The more I read the more I feel at home.

[T0mShane]

Woody Johnson is a piece of sh*t who will never get a dime of my money again. I could win the lotto AND Powerball AND Mega Millions and I still wouldn't buy a PSL in that hideous, half-finished refrigerator they call a stadium. In sum, **** Woody. That is all.

[visajets]

I'd pay $15 for a badboy dat looked like dis..

How the hell could anyone eat that at a football game? Id spend a half in the toilet taking a dump after eating that.

[Bugg]

How the hell could anyone eat that at a football game? Id spend a half in the toilet taking a dump after eating that.

At Katz's Deli, I would and have spent about that on a great pastrami on rye.My late dad made me take him there after seeing his cardiologist, which may be why...uh, suffice to say he rests in peace.

If you go to the luxury box, I guess it's cool to have shrimp cocktail. But that ain't the bulk of us.

For the rest of us, we're tailgating. So the idea of paying top dollar after we already had a feast is pointless. The new stadium is crammed with concessions and retail junk, from the little I've heard from any foolish enough, they uniformly suck.

Did they do ANY research, or did the assume people were gonna give up tailgating to get hit off the head with the cash register for worse food? All we really care about is quick cold beer or water or soda, a quick bathroom trip and easy exit. And on all 3 of those counts compared to any other stadium I've ever been in including the old one, this stadium is far and away the worst.The bathrooms are still inadequate.The beer lines are ridiculous. And I've been in some huge crowds, and nothing was as bad as Monday night getting out of there-NOTHING. Even seeing some wild shows in the old stadium like AC/DC, Springsteen or Metallica/GNR weren't as stupid as that.Retail bottlenecks are designed to slow the flow, but getting out that's really dangerous. The exit gate seems to accomodate may be 4 people standing shoulder to shoulder. If there is an emergency evacuation someone is gonna get hurt. How did they manage to eff these simple basic things up so badly?

Great job, Woody Johnson, you spoiled freaking brat. So to bleed everyone for a few bucks people will get hurt.

[visajets]

My son just reminded me about the 2 chocolate chip cookies for $5.00. Its outta control and as long as people pay,it will continue. Buy nothing there eat in the parking lot and piss in their toilets. Which by the way suck too 1 door in 1 door out? The stadium is a FAILURE.

[The Crusher]

How the hell could anyone eat that at a football game? Id spend a half in the toilet taking a dump after eating that.

You should get checked for a parasite.

[BP]

3 sliders for $12 at Yankee stadium its all about the money Woody doesnt want you tailgating dude he knows about your legendary ravenous appetite.

How much for a fanta soda?

[visajets]

You should get checked for a parasite.

Already been checked and I can assure you only people with iron guts would be able to eat that without sh*tting soon after.

[Bugg]

3 sliders for $12 at Yankee stadium its all about the money Woody doesnt want you tailgating dude he knows about your legendary ravenous appetite.

How much for a fanta soda?

I've been to the new Stadium 7 times, each time either a sellout or close to a sellout. Give the Yankees this:

I have never waited to use a bathroom there.

The plazas and concourses including the Great Hall are big and open.

Parking has gotten easier and cheaper since they opened the mall lot 5 blocks away right next to the entrances to the Deegan and the 145th Street Bridge. In fact the valet parking lots nearest the Stadium are complaining no one uses them.

There are concessions everywhere, yet I never had to wait but a minute or 2 for soda or beer. And some of them, like Carl's Cheesesteaks or Wholly Gucamole are actually very good and not ridiculously overpriced. The beer price-wise-well.

The Yankees brage they can evacuate the whole Stadium in 7 minutes. It's plausible; there are exits-ramps, elevators, escalators, stairs-everywhere.

So the Yankees what ever the expense and their faults, did some homework.The Jets and Giants instead decided the priority was bleeding their fans rather than safety. And bleeding them for things like crappy sandwiches and hot dogs that if they had a clue they would know their fans weren't going to buy.

[SouthernJet]

Woody Johnson is a piece of sh*t who will never get a dime of my money again. I could win the lotto AND Powerball AND Mega Millions and I still wouldn't buy a PSL in that hideous, half-finished refrigerator they call a stadium. In sum, **** Woody. That is all.

[joebabyny]

I put this out on Facebook and got some people mad. But I will be damned if I am not going to get an answer. Anyone try the $15 pastrami sandwich at the new stadium?

Reviews?

Not yet, here is what i have tried

Pepper and egg sandwich, at the draft party. It was decent, the guy was there cracking eggs and everything.

Hot dog with short rib and fried onions. This is up in the club lounge in the mezz. Went up there to my parents seats, they had a stand just selling all types of crazy hot dogs, pretty good.

Taylor ham. Ah, the famous jersey calssic, pork roll. Its just taylor ham and cheese on a kaiser roll. Its pretty good, and the best value in the stadium i think at 5-6 bucks.

One thing about the food at the stadium, they have found the absolute slowest, dumbest human beings in the tri state region to work there. Actually, I think they had to import stupid people from other parts of the country because I just can't believe there are that many people that stupid and slow in a 100 mile radius of NYC. I would say they are functional retards, but then that would be a slight and disrespect to functional retards. It actually makes me incensed to stand on line and pay money to these people.

[BP]

I've been to the new Stadium 7 times, each time either a sellout or close to a sellout. Give the Yankees this:

I have never waited to use a bathroom there.

The plazas and concourses including the Great Hall are big and open.

Parking has gotten easier and cheaper since they opened the mall lot 5 blocks away right next to the entrances to the Deegan and the 145th Street Bridge. In fact the valet parking lots nearest the Stadium are complaining no one uses them.

There are concessions everywhere, yet I never had to wait but a minute or 2 for soda or beer. And some of them, like Carl's Cheesesteaks or Wholly Gucamole are actually very good and not ridiculously overpriced. The beer price-wise-well.

The Yankees brage they can evacuate the whole Stadium in 7 minutes. It's plausible; there are exits-ramps, elevators, escalators, stairs-everywhere.

So the Yankees what ever the expense and their faults, did some homework.The Jets and Giants instead decided the priority was bleeding their fans rather than safety. And bleeding them for things like crappy sandwiches and hot dogs that if they had a clue they would know their fans weren't going to buy.

I love the new Yankee stadium. and you forgot to mention that you can watch the game while youre getting your beer and food because there are no walls inside. that is just brilliant.

Listen, even the new Joe robby stadium in Miami (whatever its called now) has bigger bathrooms and the plazas and concourses are huge. I left at the end of the monday night game last year and had no problem getting out. the new Meadowlands is like a worse newer version of the old stadium. that stadium in Miami has a huge picnic area with tables and chairs and fans inside so you can eat in there at half time. and that stadium is almost 25 years old.

[Bugg]

I love the new Yankee stadium. and you forgot to mention that you can watch the game while youre getting your beer and food because there are no walls inside. that is just brilliant.

Listen, even the new Joe robby stadium in Miami (whatever its called now) has bigger bathrooms and the plazas and concourses are huge. I left at the end of the monday night game last year and had no problem getting out. the new Meadowlands is like a worse newer version of the old stadium. that stadium in Miami has a huge picnic area with tables and chairs and fans inside so you can eat in there at half time. and that stadium is almost 25 years old.

Timed it last night; from my seats in 249 took almsot a half hour to the exit. It is so badly designed it's scary.

Also Steve Obermyer, the Jets' in house ad reporter on the scoreboard looks ri-Goddamn-diculous selling us on overpriced retail junk and the various concessions. We can buy real jerseys either over the internet for $40 from Hong Kong or $60 in the parking lot from someone who did that already, as we were offered yesterday.And the spot of Obermyer in the Captain Morgtan sh*thouse bar with 3 bored cocktail waitresses and 2 stone drunks trying to entice us with $10 drink "specials" was beyond embarrassing. Oh, ONLY $10 FOR A DRINK! Wow, SUCH A DEAL!May be if they had some simple beer and soda specials they would sell a whole bunch more.

And how many men with gray beards like me are you idiots going to proof?

And the media has noticed; the wonderous stadium food blows.

Bloomberg

New Meadowlands Has Horrible Edibles; Go With Deli: Food Buzz

September 08, 2010, 12:22 AM EDT

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Sipping a Tom Collins a few steps behind Giants quarterback Eli Manning at the New Meadowlands Stadium, I realized that $40,000 may buy you and a date access to a field-level lounge, but it doesn’t get you cocktails, which are $12 and awful.

A pair of Jets seat “licenses” is even pricier, topping out at $60,000. (The onetime fee allows you to keep buying your season tickets year after year.) And that’s why this life-long fan will watch from home as the two New York football teams open their seasons this Sunday and Monday in their new, $1.6 billion arena.

The pizza’s free but so bad I almost yearned for a Domino’s slice. Miserable Manhattans, poured into a plastic cup with neither shaking nor stirring still help you forget about the turnpike-quality concessions and pricing on par with tuition at New York University.

Like sausage and politics, the New Meadowlands is slick and shiny on the outside, suspect within. The steel jungle gym of an exterior emits gorgeous green and blue lights at night; the interior’s concrete walkways do their best impression of a maximum-security prison. It’s the most expensive, least impressive of the area’s three new stadiums. And it’s the only one without in-seat wait service.

Where’s the Roof?

My third-row seats, face value $700 apiece, were about the price of dinner for two at Per Se. Per Se at least offers a roof, which the stadium does not (good luck to fans at the February, 2014, Super Bowl).

If you’ve shelled out top dollar for Coaches or Mezzanine club seats, you can retreat to climate-controlled lounges where most views of the action are obstructed or nonexistent. Everyone else will watch on flat screens in the Captain Morgan Club, where a rum & cola will set you back $18.

“It includes an extra shot of alcohol,” says the barkeep. Classy.

Want a $4.75 bottle of water? I almost spilled it because the cashier kept the cap. “It’s so fans don’t throw the tops at players,” she explained. The teams don’t hold patrons in high regard, though I was allowed to keep my bottle top in a fancy club, where I could hit the opposing team’s linebackers more easily.

Nice Steaks

Food is included in the Coaches Club ticket price; the David Rockwell-designed buffet dished out overcooked penne a la vodka, rubbery kosher chicken nuggets and mushy cannoli. There are medium-rare skirt steaks, succulent beef tenderloins, juicy stuffed turkey and spicy chili.

The fare at best is generic and utterly boring. The opposite is true at our other new stadiums: At Citi Field for example, Mets fans can snack on New York’s best local fast food, including burgers from Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack, crispy fries from Box Frites, great tacos at El Verano Taqueria and David Pasternack’s fresh, meaty lobster rolls.

The Coaches Club, in contrast, embarrasses our country’s culinary capital with retrograde, flavorless Tex-Mex chicken tortillas, tuna fish-like lobster rolls and soggy fries. A “custom grind” Brooklyn Burger from the Mezzanine Club tastes nothing like the good sliders I’ve had in Kings County. Other sports complexes hire well-known regional chefs and restaurateurs; the Meadowlands picked the mass-market Food Network to provide $11 short rib hot dogs.

Instead, have the deep-fried franks for $6.00. Or gorge on the least crowded and most authentic vendors in the general concessions area -- the bridge-and-tunnel Italian deli stands.

Try a stellar roast pork sandwich (with sharp cheese and spicy pepper), a decent egg and pepper hero or a $15 beef roulade whose heady, salty ham-stuffed interior comes out best when you toss the dry, forgettable bread. Wash it all down with good dark beer.

The New Meadowlands Stadium is at 102 Route 120, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Information: www.giants.com or http://www.newyorkjets.com/. Direct train service via Penn Station.

(Ryan Sutton writes about New York City restaurants for Muse, the arts and entertainment section of Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)

--Editors: Jeremy Gerard, Daniel Billy.

To contact the writer of this column: Ryan Sutton in New York at rsutton1@bloomberg.net or Qualityrye on twitter.com/qualityrye

[Green DNA]

At Katz's Deli, I would and have spent about that on a great pastrami on rye.My late dad made me take him there after seeing his cardiologist, which may be why...uh, suffice to say he rests in peace.

If you go to the luxury box, I guess it's cool to have shrimp cocktail. But that ain't the bulk of us.

For the rest of us, we're tailgating. So the idea of paying top dollar after we already had a feast is pointless. The new stadium is crammed with concessions and retail junk, from the little I've heard from any foolish enough, they uniformly suck.

Did they do ANY research, or did the assume people were gonna give up tailgating to get hit off the head with the cash register for worse food? All we really care about is quick cold beer or water or soda, a quick bathroom trip and easy exit. And on all 3 of those counts compared to any other stadium I've ever been in including the old one, this stadium is far and away the worst.The bathrooms are still inadequate.The beer lines are ridiculous. And I've been in some huge crowds, and nothing was as bad as Monday night getting out of there-NOTHING. Even seeing some wild shows in the old stadium like AC/DC, Springsteen or Metallica/GNR weren't as stupid as that.Retail bottlenecks are designed to slow the flow, but getting out that's really dangerous. The exit gate seems to accomodate may be 4 people standing shoulder to shoulder. If there is an emergency evacuation someone is gonna get hurt. How did they manage to eff these simple basic things up so badly?

Great job, Woody Johnson, you spoiled freaking brat. So to bleed everyone for a few bucks people will get hurt.

Getting in is just as bad, I have never seen such a crowd crushing in to get on 2 escalators. The problem is that all 3 levels use the same escalator. In the old stadium each level had their own escalator and it worked just fine. Where are the spirals???? Rather than walking a couple of loops around the spiral, I have to walk a mini marathon to get from level to level. This is progress?? I miss the old place.

[BP]

Getting in is just as bad, I have never seen such a crowd crushing in to get on 2 escalators. The problem is that all 3 levels use the same escalator. In the old stadium each level had their own escalator and it worked just fine. Where are the spirals???? Rather than walking a couple of loops around the spiral, I have to walk a mini marathon to get from level to level. This is progress?? I miss the old place.

Craig, I have done both. bypass the steps and always go with the escalator. its the better of 2 bad things. I really miss the old spirals.

I am quite sure that the Gate D crap squashed any ideas for spirals at the new stadium. I cant think of any other reason why they have the dumbass stairs.

[visajets]

Getting in is just as bad, I have never seen such a crowd crushing in to get on 2 escalators. The problem is that all 3 levels use the same escalator. In the old stadium each level had their own escalator and it worked just fine. Where are the spirals???? Rather than walking a couple of loops around the spiral, I have to walk a mini marathon to get from level to level. This is progress?? I miss the old place.

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