What to Eat at Target Field

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The quick read

Minnesota eats at Target Field the way it eats everywhere else in the state, and Delaware North Sportservice, which runs the concessions program, leans into that instead of fighting it. A burger with the cheese sealed inside the patty has its own stand. The state fish gets a sandwich. A sausage maker a mile from the ballpark supplies two carts and a brat sampler.

Two rules matter before you order anything. Outside food is allowed in a soft-sided bag, which is worth using. And the alcohol cutoff is genuinely unsettled: reporting from a few seasons back said last call runs to the end of the 8th, but the team’s current guide doesn’t list a cutoff at all, so check the section below before you plan a 9th-inning drink around it.

Verify before you go: concession lineups, stand locations, and hours change every season. Confirm against the official Target Field A-Z guide on mlb.com/twins within 30 days of your visit.

The Juicy Lucy

The Juicy Lucy is Minneapolis’s own contribution to the American burger, built with the cheese sealed inside the patty instead of melted on top, and Target Field runs its own version at a themed stand. Cut into it fast. The cheese comes out molten, and the first bite is the reason the sandwich exists.

Order it the way it’s built. Asking for the cheese on the side defeats the point.

The Southpaw Walleye Sandwich

Walleye is Minnesota’s fish, pulled from lakes across the state for generations, and the Southpaw Walleye Sandwich puts that on a bun instead of a hook. Lord Fletcher’s walleye tacos joined it in 2025, so the fish now comes two ways if the sandwich isn’t what you’re after that inning.

This is the item that separates Target Field from a generic ballpark menu. Nobody outside the upper Midwest builds a concession stand around walleye, and that’s exactly the point.

Kramarczuk’s sausages

Kramarczuk’s supplies the sausage program at Target Field, and the bratwurst and Polish links are made fresh about a mile from the ballpark, not trucked in from somewhere generic. Two carts sell them straight, and the Main Concourse runs a brat sampler.

Minneapolis has argued about its best sausage maker for decades, and Kramarczuk’s is the one that made it inside the ballpark gates.

The 2026 lineup

The 2026 concessions program added several new items, mapped here by section where the team has confirmed a location:

• La Madre elotes (Section 110): Mexican street corn.
• Grand Slam Shawarma Mediterranean Bowl (Section 114): a chicken shawarma rice bowl.
• Mac and Yes Please (Section 113): build-your-own cavatappi mac, with brisket or Buffalo chicken on top.
• No Gluten Way (Section 112): a dedicated celiac-safe stand, not a gluten-free shelf inside another one.
• Taiyaki from chef Matthew Kazama: the fish-shaped dessert shell filled with chocolate or vanilla ice cream, section number not yet confirmed.

One older item worth knowing about: Pizza Luce’s Dugout Dill Pickle Pizza at Section 234, built for Target Field and not sold at their own shops.

The Minnesota State Fair is one of this state’s real institutions, and Target Field’s concessions program pulls from that same on-a-stick tradition in a handful of seasonal items. None of the 2026 additions above are required eating. The Juicy Lucy and the walleye sandwich still are.

Menus here rotate every season, so a stand can move or disappear between now and your game. If one of these is gone when you get there, say so on the feedback link below.

Bars that outlast the cutoff

Hrbek’s, the pub near Gate 14, Pryes Homeplate Taproom, on the Terrace level behind the plate, and the Budweiser Roof Deck are the ones most likely to keep pouring after the concourse stands stop for the night. If a late game is close, that’s where to be when the concourse stands close out.

The alcohol cutoff

This one isn’t locked down, so don’t plan a night around a specific inning.

• Reporting from a few seasons back put the concession-stand cutoff at the end of the 8th inning. That reporting hasn’t been reconfirmed for the current season, and the team’s own guide doesn’t state a cutoff at all, so treat it as what’s been reported rather than a locked rule.
• A handful of named bars tend to keep serving past the concourse cutoff. See above for which ones.
• The safest move is to check the posted signage or ask a vendor if the timing matters to your night.

There’s no confirmed per-transaction drink limit for Target Field, so none is listed here. The cutoff also has nothing to do with the seventh-inning stretch. The stretch is the mid-7th singalong; whatever inning alcohol actually stops, it’s later than that, and the two just happen to sit close together on the scoreboard clock.

Bring your own

Target Field allows outside food, and the allowance is wide enough to feed a family off one bag:

• Outside food is allowed, as long as it fits in a single-compartment bag no larger than 16x16x8 inches. Backpacks and multi-compartment bags aren’t permitted; the first-timer page covers the full bag policy.
• One sealed bottle of water up to 32 ounces comes in with you, along with a soft single juice or milk box for kids.
• No hard containers, which rules out coolers, Thermoses, glass, and cans.
• Outside food doesn’t go into the bar, restaurant, or suite areas.

Pack a bag of sandwiches and sealed water bottles and the concession budget drops fast, especially for a family working around cold-April or school-night games. Just know there’s no re-entry once you’re through the gate, so plan the day around it.

Paying at the park

Target Field runs fully cashless. Every stand takes major cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. If you need to convert cash, there’s one traditional ATM on the Main Concourse near Section 112, and five reverse ATMs turn cash into a spendable prepaid card at no fee: Gate 29 on the Main Concourse, the elevator lobby near Gate 3, the Treasure Island Home Run Deck near Section 231, and the top of the escalators on both the right-field and left-field Terrace levels. Handle it before you’re standing in a food line behind a full house.

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