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NHL arenas debut new food items for 2025-26 Season This NHL season, fans will get to enjoy a variety of new food and beverage options including Taiyaki cones, themed cocktails, donut burgers and more.
Dominance Era: The Octopus Bowl: Tito’s, Malibu, electric blue, lemonade, Nerds and sour octopus gummies. The drink is served with a blue ice cube and octopus garnish. 6. The Triple Double Burger In addition to the new drink offerings, there is also a new burger option at Lit- tle Caesars Arena. The Triple Double Burger includes triple smash burgers, double cheese, Nueske’s bacon, caramel- ized onions and burger sauce. 7. Centennial Burger The Chicago Blackhawks will also be celebrating their centennial this season. The United Center’s foodservice provid- er Levy is offering some special centen- nial-themed items to celebrate, including its new Centennial Burger which fea- tures a triple cheeseburger with Havarti, pepperjack and American cheeses along with lettuce, tomato and onion. 8. Next Originals Dog Levy is also offering different hot dogs for the centennial that will rotate throughout the season. Its Next Originals Dog will be available from March 6 to March 31. It features eloté topped with Cotija cheese and Hot Cheeto dust on top of a jumbo hot dog. 9. Midnight Nachos Washington Capitals fans visiting Cap- ital One Arena can enjoy a new nacho option this season courtesy of foodser- vice provider Aramark. The Midnight Nachos include house smoked chopped brisket, Empty Bowl Queso, Texas Trey’s tortilla, pico de gallo, lime crema and ci- lantro. 10. “Ocho” cheesesteak Aramark is also debuting a “Ocho” chees - esteak at Capital One Arena. The menu item features rib eye topped with truffle and blue cheese sauce, bourbon caramel- ized onions, and Sicilian salsa verde and is served on a toasted semolina roll from Bread & Water, a local bakery.
BY BENITA GINGERELLA
T he start of fall also marks the start of hockey season and foodservice teams at NHL arenas across the country have come up with a variety of new menu items to keep fans full and ready to cheer on their favorite teams. Here’s a look at what’s new in food and beverage this NHL season. 1. Loaded Fried Green Tomatoes at SRP Park in Augusta, Ga. The Delaware North team at the Key- Bank Center in Buffalo New York is de- buting a variety of new menu items in honor of famous Sabres players. One of the new offerings is The French Connection which includes three layers of French toast topped with with ham, cheese, a fried egg and mustard cream sauce. The menu item is a homage to players Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin and René Robert, Delaware North says. 2. Cheetos Pretzel Sabres fans will also be able to enjoy some new pretzel offerings this sea- son, one of which is the Cheetos Pret- zel which comes topped with crumbled Cheetos and nacho cheese. 3. Bison Osso Bucco Sandwich A Bison Osso Bucco Sandwich is one of
the new items available at the club level this season at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. Developed by Aramark, the dish features braised bison with fon- tina, asiago, broccoli rabe and bone mar- row aioli on a ciabatta bun. 4. Smoked Chicken Cheesesteak The Aramark team is also offering a new take on a Cheesesteak at Xfinity Mobile Arena with its Smoked Chicken Cheesesteak which includes Smoked and deep-fried chicken thighs along with gouda wiz, crispy chicken skin and onion jam on a seeded roll. 5. Era’s cocktails It is the Red Wings Centennial this sea- son and the team at Delaware North is offering specialty cocktails to celebrate at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Fans can enjoy three new cocktails each celebrating a different era in Red Wings history: Origins Era: The Roaring Red: Light and dark rum, blood orange juice, passionfruit juice, fresh lime and grenadine. Dynasty Era: Dynasty on Ice: Tito’s, strawberry, dragon fruit, lemonade and red cotton candy. The drink is garnished with a hockey player cutout and blinking ice cube.
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