The Cincinnati Reds hosted their annual reveal of all the new food coming to Great American Ball Park today, and CityBeat was there to taste everything, hang out with Gapper and chat with Mayor Aftab Pureval.
The Reds unveiled a few new features coming to the park, including a to-go marketplace near the first-base side, two soft-serve ice cream stands and an 11-piece brass band that will perform pop, classic and New Orleans-style music at select games throughout the season.
Our personal favorites included the Glier’s Goetta Nachos, which combine goetta crumbles with nacho cheese, chipotle sour cream, and pickled jalapenos over tortilla chips, and the Stadium Burnt Ends, which takes southwest-style sausage pieces from Bar-S and fries them with a sweet BBQ rub and sauce, then tops the whole thing with pickled red onions and a white BBQ sauce.
On the dessert side, the Reds unveiled the Baby Ruth Brownie Sundae, which takes brownies and tops them with soft serve ice cream, caramel syrup and whipped cream, and the Double Play Donut Parfait, which takes 12 cinnamon sugar donut holes and adds house-made banana pudding, vanilla wafers, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, whipped cream and caramel sauce on top. Both were equally delicious.
Also new this year is Braxton becoming the official craft beer sponsor of the Reds, which means exclusive brews available at the ballpark. On hand to try at the event was the first collaboration, the Ballpark Beer. It’s a German-style light lager that tastes exactly how you’d imagine a beer to sip on during a hot summer evening; while it won’t blow your mind, it’s definitely a step up in flavor over some of the other major brands offered at GABP.
Read below for the full list of new foods available at Great American Ball Park, and check out our Instagram page for a video of the event that features our conversation with Mayor Aftab Pureval.
• Queen City Classic Burger: Double all-beef smash burger topped with American cheese, special sauce, lettuce and tomato on a potato roll with colossal crisp fries. (Fan Zone Food Hub near section 130)
• Queen City Crunch Burger: Double all-beef smash burger topped with pimento cheese, crushed Grippo chips and pickles on a potato roll with colossal crisp fries. (Fan Zone Food Hub near section 130)
• G.L.T. – Goetta, Lettuce & Tomato: Crispy Glier’s goetta patty with shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, pickles, American cheese and Woeber’s horseradish aioli on slider buns. (Food Bars near sections 129 & 416)
• Glier’s Goetta Nachos: Glier’s goetta crumbles with Funacho cheese sauce, chipotle sour cream and pickled jalapenos over tortilla chips. (Available at the Food Bars (sections 129 & 416)
• Stadium Burnt Ends: Bar-S southwest-style sausage pieces fried with a sweet BBQ rub and sauce, topped with pickled red onions and a white BBQ sauce. (Scouts Club and Porkopolis near section 412)
• The Cincy Heat: Hempler’s double-smoked sausage with Italian braised peppers and onions with Woeber’s whole grain mustard on a hoagie roll. (Food Bar near section 109)
• Hempler’s Jalapeno Cheddar Cajun Bowl: Hempler’s jalapeno cheddar sausage bites with sautéed peppers and onions on dirty Cajun rice topped with a Cajun cream sauce. (Food Bar near section 109)
• Smoked Brisket Street Corn Bowl: Montgomery Inn smoked brisket with Mexican street corn, pickled red on-ions, jalapenos, Cotija cheese and BBQ sauce. (Mr. Red’s Smokehouse near section 138)
• White Chicken Chili Fry Box: Grilled chicken, hatch green chili queso, white beans, sour cream, pickled red onions and cilantro on colossal crisp fries. (Frybox near sections 137 & 534)
• Frito Chili Fry Box: Vegetarian Frito chili, Funacho cheese sauce, crushed Fritos, pickled jalapenos and ranch sauce on colossal fries. (Frybox near sections 137 & 534)
• Tofuego Tacos: Three flour tortillas topped with chipotle shredded street tofu, jalapeno aioli, cilantro, pickled red onions and Cotija cheese (Scouts Club and Los Rojos Taco Cart near section 128)
• Wings & Rings Boneless Wings: Boneless chicken wings with your choice of garlic medium or honey barbecue sauce. Ranch and blue cheese available upon request. (Food Hubs near sections 112 & 130)
• Baby Ruth Brownie Sundae: Baby Ruth chocolate brownies topped with soft serve ice cream, caramel syrup and whipped cream. (Rosie’s Ice Cream Stands near sections 132 & 413)
• Double Play Donut Parfait: 12 cinnamon sugar donuts with house-made banana pudding, vanilla wafers, Cin-namon Toast Crunch, whipped cream and caramel sauce. (Mr. Red’s Smokehouse near section 139)