I had high hopes that NC would introduce new and better food in the concourses. Has anyone had decent grub in another football ground (even abroad) which would add to our matchday experience without having to fork out (geddit!) for the restaurants. The pasties are OK if you have an asbestos mouth but the choice is appalling. Any ideas?
I love the pasties but you're right, they are quite warm!!! Not a bad size for what you pay either. I miss the big cheesburgers they used to do years ago. I know they do the burgers now but they're very dry without the onions and relish in them. Last time we were in the CCC, they used to have pasta which was great for those cold winter games!!
Pasta sounds nice. Easy to keep warm and serve...sounds viable. What about slices of pizza...we have an Italian Chairman for heavens sake. Be careful of any burgers..after NC has used the horses' heads to put frighteners on people, there's an awful lot of horse left over.
What is it with people shoving food down their gobs at football? I think in the 35 years I've been going to football, I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've had grub in a concourse. Many of them are rank, but vendors outside stadiums are generally better and cheaper. Best away grub was always from a Chippy. I remember Everton, Norwich, West Ham & Walsall having great chippies near their grounds.
The best hotdog I have ever had was at Southend, I can't remember what season it was. But I just remember going into this little sort of cafe up some stairs in the away end. It was the dog's ******!!!! ( Excuse the pun)
Stadium food is best avoided. Overpriced and generally rubbish. Wigan apparently have good pies. However, it seems to be in both clubs destinies that we shall never meet...
The trip to Rochdale this year was at least slightly recovered by the wonderful chippy right outside the ground. Sat on the kerb with my 10 year old boy eating fish n chips with a little wooden fork before walking 10 yards across the road to the ground was great.... then they scored two!
Swindon have two chippies opposite their ground and both are good though the furthest is my favourite. Needed something to pick me up after the abysmal performances.
Best I had was a pie at St James Park a few years back but I have to agree with Wisescummer, avoid satadium grub at all costs. It's expensive, usually hot enough to melt the inside of your mouth and sits in your stomach like a ledden weight for the second half.
Only ever bought food once at St. Marys and this was when a friend talked me out of going to a pub for something to eat and I had a pasty on the concourse. However, when I found out it cost about £4 it cured me of any attempt of buying good at the match ever again. Generally speaking, stadium food is the pits. What surprised me was when we went to Wembley last year there were very few good cafes in the vicinity. The one we ended up in was disgusting - never finished the coffee and when I saw the state of the burn't bacon and eggs being delivered to one customer it was bad enough to make me lose my appetite. I would have thought that someone would have latched on to the potential and opend a good quality cafe in that area as they would have made a mint. About 12 years ago I went on holiday to Burgundy and arrived in Auxerre the same day as the French club were playing Wolfsburg in the Intertoto Cup. If was a rubbish game that ended 1-0 to the Germans and even the few locals that turned up were bored. Auxerre is a very nice, small city and the stadium was a modest, modern building set amidst a large sporting facility with 5-a-side pitches and running tracks. Unfortunately I could find anywhere to grab something to et a lunchtime and ended up trying the food at the game as I had expectations that the French cuisine would be of a slightly higher standard than over here. Unfortunately the hot dog was your typical plastic affari even if the bread was quite nice. Got to say that Denmark is the best foriegn country for sausages and there used to be a bloke in the central square in Copenhagen who sold home-made sausages which we sensational. The experience on Auxerre discouraged me from tying again when I later went to Marseille to watch England play in the World Cup.
Generally speaeking very diappointed in the pasties but more disappointed in the beers which reminds me i must start a post on that point
Barnsley, many years ago did awesome Meat and potato pies. With big chunks of stewing steak and equally large offcuts of spud steeped in the gravy therein. Best stadium food I've ever eaten. They also had a guy in a booth who played, on a wurlitzer organ, the latest pop hits of the day. The fact that they just didn't adopt the "let's play the records over the tannoy" in favour of the organist made all his machinations, of those tone wheels, so much the sweeter to listen to.
The best food in a ground has be to be at the Emirates, 3 times ive been there in 3 different areas of the stadium, and each stands concourse has different foods, you can get real burgers, like ones you'd get in a weather spoons. fish and chips, toad in the hole, whole pizzas, club sandwiches,in the expensive seats you can even get a roast dinner if the game is on a sunday, its all nice food aswell, except its very expensive, A burger meal is £7. and a pint is like 5.80. But everything there is expensive
