{"id":9097,"date":"2026-06-10T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:24:14","slug":"cws-food-presentation-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omahanebraska.com\/blog\/cws-food-presentation-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CWS Food Presentation 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

CWS 2026 Media Tasting<\/h3>\n
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Executive Chef Katie Cochran giving the CWS food presentation to media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the 76th College World Series here in Omaha, we are introducing 31 new food items to the list this year. We updated four of our items that we have sold over the years. We have 36 specialty items on our concourse. We have 15 specialty items on our premium level, which is the level we’re currently on.<\/p>\n

One of my biggest things that this year I am so very proud of is that we brought Smash Burgers to the ballpark. It is something that we do over at the CHI Center, and it was a big feat for me to try to get this over here. We have a lot of different things working, but we were able to get Smash Burgers in two different locations.<\/p>\n

The first location is on the concourse, and that’s Burger Burger. So Burger Burger with four different smash burgers. They’ll have a Plain Jane, which is just our two seared beef patties with American cheese. And then we will have our Deluxe Burger, which is two seared beef patties, American cheese, our burger sauce, lettuce, and tomatoes. And then we have our Bacon Barbecue Smash Burger as well. That’s got white American cheese, barbecue sauce, caramelized onions, and bacon. And then our specialty burger this year for Burger Burger is our Banh Mi Burger. This will also be a branded bun again this year with our CWS logo. So we have the two seared patties. We have white American cheese. We have fried pork belly tossed in the gochujang sauce and topped with pickled banh mi vegetables and Kewpie mayo.<\/p>\n

Our specialty smash burger for upstairs in our premium level is our Comeback Burger. It is our two seared patties, American cheese, Comeback Sauce, lettuce, shaved red onion, and a thick sliced heirloom tomato. Down in Slice, we also have a different burger this year. It’s kind of our crazy big Wow Burger. We have a grilled beef patty with provolone cheese. On top of that, we put a fried chicken fritter. So it’s basically a chicken Parmesan on top of a burger. It\u2019s very delicious. It’s got mozzarella cheese and marinara and banana peppers on that.<\/p>\n

Another burger that we’re going to feature this year in our outfield, in Big Hits, is our Curveball. It’s a sealed burger. So normally out in Big Hits, we wouldn’t be able to have cheeseburgers because it’s not a stand that produces that. So this is the availability to get that cheeseburger out in the outfield to get that going. So we branded the bun seeds on the burger and then we just press it together. So that is a burger patty, two slices of American cheese. We have burger sauce and pickles. These are our featured burgers this year.<\/p>\n

We’ll move on down. We’ll start with our dogs next. We have a Texas Leaguer this year. That is in Great Plains Heat Zone and Diggity Dog. It is a Black Forest bacon smoked sausage topped with house-made brisket, caramelized onions, barbecue sauce, and crispy bacon. Next, we have our Bavarian dog.So that is our all-beef hot dog topped with beer cheese, crispy bacon pieces, and honey mustard pretzel pieces all in a Bavarian bun.<\/p>\n

I’ll go down here. So next we’ve got our nachos. This year in Slice of Pizza, we have kind of a different one. We’re calling it our Tag Up Tortellini. It’s fried cheese tortellinis topped with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, and then crispy fried cups pepperoni and Italian sausage. Next is our Elote Nacho, and that is an in Diggity Dog. And that is corn tortilla chips topped with our queso blanco, fire roasted corn, and jalapenos. And then it is topped with queso fresco and cilantro, and it is drizzled with a little bit of chili lime vinegar or chili lime fruit. And then this is our iconic Home Plate Nacho. We gave it a little bit of a facelift this year. This is something that’s been at our ballpark forever. How we upgraded it this year is we put a piece of blanco on it, Volcanic Peppers, brand new fire roasted salsa. They started coming out with it in May. So we put that on top of it. It has such amazing flavor. And then topped with our cilantro and green onions. And that is our new take on our iconic home plate nacho.<\/p>\n

Move over to our spicy and premium levels. We have our Nashville Hot Tenders this year, and you can find that in Clubhouse. That’s chicken tenders tossed in our Nashville hot sauce. It’s served with tater tots and spicy pickles, and it has dill ranch on the side. All of our ranch dressings on the concourse and on premium level this year are all house-made as well.<\/p>\n

Next we have two premium items that are only featured on our club level. We have our Steakhouse Mac n Cheese. It is a creamy, house-made mac and cheese topped with tender steak bites, blue cheese crumbles, fried onion tanglers, and green onions. And then we have our Slugger Buffalo Chicken Sub. That is in Gasworks, and that is chicken tenders topped in buffalo sauce with buffalo ranch and then pepper jack cheese and then topped with ranch sauce.<\/p>\n

And then to my absolute favorite thing, which is our desserts. It is something that we’re starting to get a little bit better at, I feel like. We keep coming up with some new great ones each year. The You’re Killing These S’mores will definitely make its return back to Batter’s Box. But this year, we came up with a Midwest Monster Fried Twinkie. So we make this Twinkie in-house. We dip it and we batter it and we fry it in the stands. It’s topped with a strawberry compote, chocolate sauce, and powdered sugar. It is definitely meant to be shared. And this is out of Burger Burger.<\/p>\n

Our last dessert on the concourse this year is our Churro Bites. Just churro bites, golden fried, tossed in cinnamon sugar, and it comes with caramel on the side to dip in.<\/p>\n

And kind of to reiterate a little bit of what Adam said earlier, here is an example of those Yeti cups. You can find these Yeti cups at any of our concession stands and at Club Bar. Reiterating, you can have refill drinks, so if you buy one, you get free refills the whole entire series. You just have to bring your cup back each game and then take it to the stand. You have to take your lids off, give the cup to them, and they can refill it for you.<\/p>\n

And then we’re going to touch on one last thing. We have a brand-new package in our suites this year. This package is only available for pre-order, but it is available at our suite level. This is our grazing package. Our grazing package consists of Al Pastor pork skewers and that’s a fried pork belly with an Al Pastor sauce, and it’s like grilled pineapple. We have our Street Corn Deviled Eggs and then Grilled Peach and Heirloom Tomato Skewers. You get pretzel whites and queso cheese with it, a feta and watermelon salad, topped with serrano vinaigrette and mint. And then we have crab rangoon dip. All of this is absolutely fabulous for snacking and right in your suite, and it’s a great package to have.<\/p>\n

Well, this concludes all of our new items this year. Once again, I said we have a lot of our favorites coming back.<\/p>\n

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