Eat Your Heart Out

The Stadium Cafe

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The Stadium is a staple for those who love sports and want to watch them all the time. This is indeed why I chose to bring my boyfriend there last night to watch the final Notre Dame game of the season and indulge in some beer battered fries.
As a Spa Catholic alumni, The Stadium was always the place to go after a sporting event to hang out with friends and refuel. The menu has since changed from a more simplified list of typical bar/restaurant food to a mish mosh of what seems like thousands of choices.

Normally, I would have gone with a simple chicken tenders or mozzarella sticks dish when visiting The Stadium, but last night I decided to go with the spinach chicken sandwich while still on that health kick of mine. I wasn't anticipating something spectacular, besides the beer battered fries of course, so I wasn't really let down upon the food's arrival.

The chicken had been grilled and put on an oversized roll, with some flavorless spinach and a slice of provolone to top it off. The chicken was actually very moist and cooked perfectly, but everything else about it was just blah. I found that taking the top half of the bun off and just cutting the sandwich up was the best way to go about eating without having carb overload.

Now just because I wasn't pleased with my meal doesn't mean that The Stadium doesn't have great things to offer. Like I had mentioned before, the beer battered fries are pretty spectacular, along with the Saratoga Chips. I've also always been a fan of the french onion soup, tomato and mozzarella salad and buffalo chicken sandwich, this time I just wanted to try something new.

The bottom line? The Stadium is a great place to go with friends or to watch a game, just don't expect to be swept off your feet.

Happy New Year everyone!

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Ashley Dingeman

My name is Ashley Dingeman and I am in love with food. A recent SUNY Geneseo graduate and Saratoga Springs native, it has always been a dream of mine to have the opportunity to do the two things I do best: eat & write. Just like in a Disney movie, I guess dreams really do come true.

First off, can I just say that my passion for food goes way beyond simply loving to eat. For some, eating is eating and food is food, but to me, it’s so much more. Every element of the food experience, I love.

Perhaps the profound effects of growing up in an Italian family have rubbed off on me. If there was one thing I learned in the process, it was that food brings people together, and where there’s food, there’s family. No, I didn’t grow up in The Olive Garden, but I did grow up privileged to have an incredible Grandmother, and the best cook I’ve ever known. To this day no one will ever be able to replicate her Sunday “gravy”, even though all grandchildren have come close (and some closer than others [me]). It was she who inspired me to begin cooking in the first place, and it is in her honor that I continue on in hopes of inspiring others the same way.

So I invite you now to revel in my words, devour my descriptions, fantasize over my photographs, and maybe just maybe, you’ll be move enough to go out and try something for yourself. Project “Eat Your Heart Out” starts now.