I just know that you’re going to like this answer I have never been to Yankee Stadium! I prefer to watch games on TV & the 4 Yankee games I’ve gone to see in the past few years have all been with friends in Baltimore or Spring Training in Florida. Baltimore has a great stadium/area and we’ve generally won (giving me free drinks/food). Easy to get to from Brooklyn as well. However, for you, here’s a directory: https://www.mlb.com/yankees/ballpark/food Although I’m not a David Chang fan, Fuku might be a good bet for the chicken sandwich, as might Marcus Samuelsson’s Streetbird chicken sandwich. And Mighty Quinn’s BBQ isn’t too bad either. It’s a pretty good line up that they have going there. And, commensurate with Yankee tradition, high priced.
By the way, if you’re in Bed-Stuy, let me (and the other HO folks) know & join us for a group dinner. Except for the days that I’ll be at the US Open, we’ll be around and available. Brooklyn & Queens places are our specialties.
Thanks for the guide. On its face, that is a really impressive list. The Mott Haven neighborhood in the South Bronx is getting a lot of good reviews for its restaurants lately, so we might end up just going over there for an early dinner rather than eating at the stadium.
I have eaten at Marcus Samuelsson’s Harlem restaurant Red Rooster two or three times and been consistently underwhelmed. It’s good, but not memorable at all. But for ballpark food, he might be worth seeking out.
The Nats used to have good ballpark food, but it’s terrible now. We went to a Mets game last year and the pastrami sandwich from Nathan’s Famous was real good, surprisingly. Not that expensive either. There were lots of good-looking options at CitiField. I was jealous.
I’ll send you an email with our dates in Bed-Stuy. A group dinner sounds tremendous.
It’s interesting to see how threads wander on Hungry Onion. I think it’s a function of the dearth of new threads. Perhaps I should start one on area bbq 2023, or start one for a particular state.
No, I think the blame lies with me. I relish stream-of-consciousness digressions. One thing I hated about Chowhound was its insistence on one topic per thread.
I think I’m going to wait and see on the DC version of 2Fifty. Rob Sonderman, the pitmaster at Federalist Pig, has long complained that DC environmental regulations make it impossible for him to do open air smoking. 2Fifty might be forced to an inferior cooking method, just by virtue of being in DC.
I just had a comment that Federalist Pig in Adams Morgan has started cooking with wood. I may try the tonight. I’m at Deli City right now eagerly awaiting a pastrami sandwich.
Correct. I understood the comment to be that the new cookers were all wood. I sent an email to verify. I may go Sunday rather than try to park in Adams Morgan on a Friday night.
So did the DC regulations or ordinance change? Sonderman himself told me that DC law was the reason he couldn’t get as smoke as he liked at his DC location.
I don’t know about the ordinance. Maybe he just wasn’t willing to spend the money to comply, or maybe he prefers the set-and-forget aspect of gas-assisted. You can cook exclusively with wood in DC. Rocklands does. Fed Pig and others use some wood, as do lots of pizza places.
I sent an email checking whether they actually cook exclusively with wood in DC. I may have been misinformed.
Following the advice of @FlemSnopes, I picked up bbq at Rolling Rib in Upper Marlboro. This is a part of the same family that runs Henry’s Soul food with locations in Oxon Hill and on U St in DC. Henry’s is famous for their sweet potato pie which is also available at Rolling Rib, and I believe some of the bbq at RR is available at Henry’s. The sweet potato pie is famous for good reason. It is exceptional.
The chopped pork here is masterful. Easily as good as Odd BBQ, plus it has a very slight kick of spice to it. Glorious. I could eat it for days on end. The whole family enjoyed the pork ribs very much. They were even better the next day, so picking some up at Henry’s in DC, although they are not smoked there, is probably a really good idea (if available). Collard greens are very nice here. Rich with good bitterness. Mac n cheese is about what you’d expect form a bbq joint, which in my mind is not enticing.
For the record, CJ the proprietor uses wood and coal.
I’m very glad it was good this time. I love the place, talking to people in line while you wait is great. I’ve been really worried about the food, though, as our second visit was definitely subpar.
It’s very good to get another positive data point.
I’ve gotten to a couple of local barbecue places in the last month or so (the Silver & Son truck and Mookie’s in Great Falls), and I need to get up some energy and post something about those two places.
I’ve been a fan of Rolling Rib for a while, and I put it on the DC area Best list – one of only 2 rib places, actually. The place to go for Ribs in the DC area definitely is Southern Maryland – Randy’s, T&J, Smokehouse BBQ Shack, Uncle D’s, Pinkie’s.
John, I’ve noticed that on your blog you’ve been writing about your revisits to some BBQ places. I’m curious whether you’ve revisited Rolling Rib since your first visit.
I have not had DC BBQ since our decamping to Baltimore in 2021 but one of my favorites was The Pit Stop. I prefer the stand in Gilbert’s Corner to the stand alone restaurant in Sterling {iirc}
I have never been to Yankee Stadium! 
I prefer to watch games on TV & the 4 Yankee games I’ve gone to see in the past few years have all been with friends in Baltimore or Spring Training in Florida. Baltimore has a great stadium/area and we’ve generally won (giving me free drinks/food). Easy to get to from Brooklyn as well. However, for you, here’s a directory: https://www.mlb.com/yankees/ballpark/food Although I’m not a David Chang fan, Fuku might be a good bet for the chicken sandwich, as might Marcus Samuelsson’s Streetbird chicken sandwich. And Mighty Quinn’s BBQ isn’t too bad either. It’s a pretty good line up that they have going there. And, commensurate with Yankee tradition, high priced.
