Comerica Park 2025: An All-Star lineup of local foods, food trucks and unique cuisine

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• Food hilights at Comerica Park for the 2025 season include the return of Slows Bar BQ and Breadless and the addition of Fairway Packing Co.’s smashburgers.
• Comerica Park’s new Home Plate Club will offer an elevated dining experience with small plate items and premium steak options.

Cheesy mozzarella sticks between sourdough bread. Jerk chicken and mango wrapped in Swiss chard leaves. Smashburgers with a blend of beef, plus cheese, and a special sauce. A scratch kitchen dedicated to the new club area seating, churning out everything from sushi to steaks to burgers.

When the Detroit Tigers home season opens April 4 at Comerica Park, fans can expect more than hot dogs, peanuts and Cracker Jack.

Comerica Park is serving up new local fare and expanded offerings for the 2025 season, plus returning favorites.

On Wednesday, Ilitch Sports + Entertainment and the Tigers revealed details of the new food and beverage offerings at Comerica Park that include the return of Slows Bar BQ and Breadless plus popular smash burgers from Fairway Packing in Fraser.

At the annual “What’s New” at the ballpark media event, the Tigers organization and Delaware North Sportservice, its food and beverage partner, hosted a food tasting along with announcing new and returning food vendors, new merchandise, game day specials and unique food items.

A highlight, as in years past, is the Tigers’ continued commitment to putting the spotlight on local restaurants in the city of Detroit. This season brings new and previous local food partnerships to fans throughout the ballpark.

Mark Szubeczak, executive chef of Comerica Park for Delaware North Sportservice, said this is an exciting season with the expansion of their partnership with Slows Bar BQ and Breadless and the new Home Plate Club. At the Home Plate Club, Szubeczak said, they will have a scratch kitchen where new items will be created every day during those 81 home games.

“We have great, great items for everyone to enjoy at the ballpark,” he said. “We are all excited for 2025 season. We have so many good flavors. We have smashburgers from Fairway Packing … a nice cheesy, cheesy burger. We are ready to go.”

This is the first foray into Comerica Park for Fairway Packing Co., a Fraser meat distributor. Emmet Baratta, president and CEO of the family-owned business, said its popular smashburger, which first debuted at Little Caesars Arena, will have its own concession area in the Big Cat Court. Fairway is also one of the meat suppliers for the Home Plate Club, which will feature the popular and impressive dry-aged Tomahawk steak.

“At the Home Plate Club, they are giving you an elevated experience with the dry-aged Tomahawk steak,” Baratta said. “We are also doing some porterhouses. They truly went all out on all steak offerings for the clubs. “

Returning flavors

Back for this season, Slows Bar BQ is offering two of its popular sandwiches: the Reason and Yardbirds. The Corktown-based restaurant also added a new sandwich called “Put Me In Coach,” which features shredded brisket in Kansas City-style BBQ sauce, topped with sliced onion and dill pickles. They will also serve their popular mac and cheese.

For the last three seasons at Comerica Park, Breadless was a rotating pop-up. Breadless is now a staple in Section 140.

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“We will be serving up fresh bold flavors for all 81 tigers home games, events, and concerts as well,” Marc Howland, co-owner of Breadless, said.

Howland said it’s been an incredible experience over three years for Breadless.

“We are Detroit entrepreneurs,” he said. “We started this from the bottom up, started selling sandwiches out of brown paper in gyms. To be in such a community staple powerhouse like Comerica Park, on a rotating basis to try it out and see how everything goes. And then to knock it out of the park and for fans to love it to invite us back permanently just means the world to us.”

Here’s what fans can expect:

Section 119: Big Cat Court

Smashburger: Two Fairway beef patties with American cheese, diced onion and special sauce on a Martin’s roll.

Chickpea Power Bowl: Rice, chickpeas, tabouleh, garlic sauce, hummus and pita chips, with an add-on chicken option. Available at the Shawarma section.

Section 140

Breadless, with their unique take on sandwiches without the bread and wrapped in Swiss chard and lettuce leaves is back with health-conscious options:

• Jerk chicken & mango: Oven-roasted jerk chicken, peach mango salsa, no sugar added BBQ sauce, pepperjack cheese, tomatoes, cucumbers, fresh mango slices and onions, wrapped in Swiss chard.
• Avocado turkey: Fresh sliced turkey, avocado spread, champagne vinaigrette, white cheddar cheese, tomatoes, sweet pickles, onions, chopped romaine, wrapped in a romaine lettuce wrap.
• Spicy falafel: Smashed falafel, spicy aioli, pickled turnips, Arabic pickles, tomatoes, onions, and chopped romaine, wrapped in Swiss chard.
• Southwest rice bowl: Oven-roasted or jerk chicken, falafel or house-braised beef, black beans, avocado spread, garlic crema, white cheddar cheese, roasted peppers, caramelized onions, and brown rice.

Section 149

Slows Bar BQ has these three sandwich offerings on its menu this season:

• The Reason: Slows Bar BQ smoked pulled pork, bathed in North Carolina BBQ sauce, topped with coleslaw and dill pickles.
• The Yardbird: Smoked chicken, sauteed mushrooms, cheddar, applewood smoked bacon, whole grain honey mustard and BBQ sauce.
• Put Me In Coach: Shredded brisket bathed in Kansas City-style BBQ sauce, topped with sliced onion and dill pickles.

Section 151

From the Blue Moon Bistro:

• Mozzarella sticks, house-made marinara, and melty provolone, sandwiched between sourdough garlic bread.

Throughout Comerica Park fans will find Little Caesars Deep Dish Pizza.

The rotating food trucks offering is also back for the season on select dates Friday-Sunday.

The Lobster Food Truck with lobster rolls, lobster BLT and shrimp tacos is back for the season and more food truck rotations will be announced throughout the season.

Heritage Nights at Comerica Park take place on specific dates throughout the season. Each Heritage Night celebrates a specific cultures heritage and cuisine.

Heritage Night lineup includes:

April 9: Arab American Night with halal options available for chicken shawarma and chickpea power bowl at the Big Cat court section 119.

April 25: Polish Night with the Hamtramck sandwich in section 122 and the Polish boy slider from Green Dot Stables in section 143.

May 27: Jewish Night features the Brisket slider (not Kosher) from Green Dot Stables in section 143.

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