What to Eat at Camden Yards

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The quick read

Camden Yards eats like Baltimore first and a ballpark second: crab, Old Bay, and pit beef, with much of the list drawn straight from city restaurants. The calls in short: Boog’s BBQ on Eutaw Street first, the Old Bay Seafood crab cake if you order one piece of seafood all day, and Ekiben’s Neighborhood Bird for the local pick that is neither crab nor pit beef. Two rules change the math before you order anything: you are allowed to carry your own food through the gate, and the taps here run through the 8th inning, later than most of the league.

Verify before you go: concession lineups change every season. Confirm specifics against the official Orioles food guide on mlb.com/orioles within 30 days of your visit, and if you catch something stale, tell us.

Boog’s BBQ

Start on Eutaw Street, the open promenade between the park and the B&O Warehouse, and start at Boog’s: pit beef, turkey, and brisket sandwiches, with Old Bay chips and beans among the sides. Pit beef is the Baltimore order, roast beef sliced thin and piled on a roll, and this is the place to eat your first one.

The stand carries the name of Boog Powell, the Orioles slugger, who launched it the day the ballpark opened in 1992. Budget a few extra minutes for the walk: 134 home runs have their own brass plaque out here, one per ball that made it onto Eutaw Street in game play since 1992.

Old Bay Seafood

Pit beef is the meat half of Baltimore; this stand is the crab half. Crab cake, softshell crab sandwich, crab soup, crab waffle fries. If you order one piece of seafood all day, make it the crab cake. There are two locations, around section 43 on the lower level and section 334 upstairs, so you are not crossing the park from either deck.

Crab Smash Tacos

The newer signature: crab cakes pressed into corn tortillas with crab consomme and a cilantro-lime crema, the park’s attempt to take crab somewhere past the cake. Give it a look before you default to the crab cake.

Ekiben

Ekiben is the local-favorite crossover, a Baltimore restaurant whose stand brings the Neighborhood Bird to the park: a soft steamed bao bun around crispy fried chicken. It is the order for the fan who wants neither crab nor pit beef and still wants to eat like the city.

Stuggy’s and The Local Fry

Two more Baltimore names, both built for eating on the move:

• Stuggy’s. The Fells Point hot dog shop, with toppings running from crab to mac and cheese to chili to jerk chicken. The pick when a plain dog is not enough.
• The Local Fry. Crab-dip fries. That is the whole pitch, and it is enough. Split an order.

The one to skip

The Baltimore Banner’s concession roundup panned the park pretzel as dry. Spend the room on crab instead.

Bringing your own food

Camden Yards lets you carry food through the gate. Use it. It travels in the one approved bag:

• The bag: clear, up to 12 by 6 by 12 inches, or a non-clear clutch up to 4.5 by 6.5
• The drink: one factory-sealed non-alcoholic bottle, 20 ounces or less
• The bans: no cans, no glass

For a family, that is packed dinners for the kids and one Boog’s stop for the table instead of a full concourse bill.

The alcohol cutoff

Beer stops when the 8th inning ends, unless the game has already run 3 hours from first pitch. That has been one of the later cutoffs in the league. Sales run 2 per person per transaction, and you need a valid ID.

Do not confuse the cutoff with the seventh-inning stretch. The singing comes an inning and a half earlier; the beer lines are still open after it.

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