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Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Seattle's Safeco Field gets food concession with local ingredients, menus by award-winning chefs

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Buh-bye, limp hot dogs in soggy buns. Baseball season starts April 1st, and Seattle's Safeco Field--go, Mariners--is celebrating its first home game on the 8th with some serious food.
Centerplate, the leading hospitality provider to North America's premier sports stadiums, has developed a partnership with award-winning Seattle chef Ethan Stowell, as well as chefs Roberto Santibañez, owner of Brooklyn's Fonda/culinary director of Hoboken's The Taco Truck, and Bill Pustari, chef-owner of New Haven's Modern Apizza.

The revamped Bullpen Market at Safeco Field will feature fresh, local ingredients and easy-on-the-budget prices. In addition to an Apizza outlet, there is chef Stowell's Hamburg + Frites, and La Crêperie, and Flying Turtle Cantina/Tortugas Voladoras from Santibañez.

Says John Sergi, Chief Design Officer of Centerplate, "Our mission was to create a restaurant-style experience--the anti-fast food--in a concession environment. We (brought in) Ethan as our consulting chef...in order to help us make the food 'restaurant-real.'
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Stowell is the executive chef and owner of Ethan Stowell Restaurants, which includes Tavolàta, Anchovies & Olives, and How to Cook a Wolf. He is the acting chef at eight-month-old Staple & Fancy Mercantile, in Seattle's gorgeously revamped Kolstrand Building in the Ballard neighborhood.

Best-known for his use of local ingredients and simple, seasonal food, Stowell was named one of the 2008 Best New Chefs in America by Food & Wine magazine and has been honored with multiple James Beard Award nominations for "Best Chef Northwest." Santibañez and Pustari were added to the line-up to create programs featuring the signature concepts for which they are both nationally acclaimed--Mexican food and pizza. I might get into sports if this is the future of stadium food.

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