Writer Unimpressed With Cowboys Stadium's Food Offerings

Cowboys Stadium's Food Offerings Receive Lukewarm Review

Two of the three new stadiums that opened this year -- Yankee Stadium, Citi Field and Cowboys Stadium -- "try to serve, with varying degrees of success, ambitious food and drinks to the masses," while the "other one's in Texas," according to BLOOMBERG NEWS' Ryan Sutton, who reviewed Cowboys Stadium's food offerings. The stadium's concessions are run by Legends Hospitality Management, which also runs concessions for the Yankees, but Sutton wondered why Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones has not "enlisted higher quality regional chains for the fare." The stadium's hamburger consisted of a "gray patty with no char, a chewy, rubbery texture and unidentifiable cheese," while the chili dog was a "mealy abomination." Sutton wrote "reasonably tasty flautas were filled with cheese and intense chicken flavor, but weren't any better than the taquitos available at 7-Eleven," while beef fajita tacos were "dry and stringy." Meanwhile, the $13 Kobe patties available in the stadium's club-level seats "expertly evoke McDonald's," and the $12 Patron margaritas available in one of the stadium's club lounges "had the same chemical sour-mix taste as the cloying, $14 frozen Cowboyritas available to all fans." However, Sutton wrote the stadium did have "fast lines" for concessions, as he "never waited longer than five minutes" (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 9/23).

Cowboys May Limit Number Of Party Pass Tickets To Help With Crowd Control

BAD TIMING? In St. Louis, Bernie Miklasz wrote Cowboys Stadium in making its regular-season debut during Sunday's Giants-Cowboys game "came across as over-the-top and obscene." Miklasz wrote given the "hard knocks of a tough economy," it struck him as "wildly inappropriate to be glorifying Mr. Jones' collection of designer luxury suites, private clubs, exotic cage dancers and a video board so large that it could span the Tropic of Capricorn" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 9/24). But in Louisiana, Roy Lang III writes the stadium "lives up to its billing and future trips to the facility likely won't get old." One of the stadium's best features is the "ability to party inside or outside this visually breathtaking facility." Lang writes when he first walked in the stadium, he "thought the sub-$30 Party Pass was the greatest idea ever," though once the crowd "filled in, the idea became much less appealing." Lang notes a limit on Party Passes has been discussed, and if the situation works out, it "can be a great thing," as it "can provide an inexpensive way to be a part of the action" (SHREVEPORT TIMES, 9/24).