Thank you goes to Chef Chris Myers for his interview at TD Ameritrade Park, regarding food at the College World Series.
Quite a wonderful spread here again this year. What are some new favorites that you have created for us?
One of our signature items this year are Colossal Tots. They are giant tater tots. They come in three different flavors: buffalo- blue cheese. chili cheese and poutine which is gravy and cheese-always good on potato.
We also have NachOmaha which is giant nachos with steak and corn and we have some volcanic peppers hot sauce on it.
Any returning favorites?
We have some takes on some of the new stuff. Our older stuff is just like pretzels. We have deep fried a pretzel and added a caramel applesauce with it.
So instead of just your pretzel and cheese you can get anywhere with doing it different like that.
It’s kind of a nice one.
Also our Colossal Tots are a really good one too.
How long have you been cooking and creating?
Myself? Pretty much my whole life. Professionally about 15 years.
What brought you to Levy?
Baseball. The idea of working in a ballpark was really cool.
What kind of challenges do you have with running things for a baseball park?
There’s a lot of complexities, There is concessions. There is a premium, which is suite and Club Level. They all have their own menus up there and there is a lot higher on food. There is feeding teams as well. … So there are a lot of moving parts.
What are some of the food items for the suites and clubs?
The suites- They have a lot of packages. So there’s a barbecue package with traditional items like pulled pork and what not.
But those have are some kind of neat things like in them where they have a giant meatball. We have a lot of salads as well.
There is of course hotdogs and hamburgers up there.
Some of the higher end stuff — there are buffalo chicken sliders and things like that.
When you think of making ballpark food amazing, what is going through your mind?
Fun. What do we like? What is fun? What do I put on top of things?
I noticed there was “Grains and Greens” as a menu item.
That is a salad that is going to be set up at our Action Stations. There are some similar salads also available in suites. So on the Club Level, we have Action Stations set up with different menu at each station at every single game.
What is your favorite this year?
Probably the NachOmaha- the giant nacho. The giant tots are fun too.
Thank you very much.
For more CWS stories please visit our other pages:
What’s new in food for 2018
https://www.omahanebraska.com/blog/cws-media-tasting-2018-great-food-meets-the-greatest-show-on-dirt
2018 Interview with Kathryn Morrissey, Executive Director of CWS Omaha Inc.
https://www.omahanebraska.com/blog/cws-interview
2017 Interview with Kathryn Morrissey, Executive Director of CWS Omaha Inc.
http://omahanebraska.com/omahainterviewcollegeworldseries
