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Smorgasburg Meets Backboard? Barclays Center Has High Local Food Hopes

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Garth Johnston

Published Feb 29, 2012

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Those kids on the left are so pumped to go and buy some beer, or at least magical rendering beer

 

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Published Feb 29, 2012

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Now that the Barclays Center over at the Atlantic Yards is getting closer to its debut Jay Z concert, developer Bruce Ratner is getting serious about the venue's food. Though he went with Atlanta-based Coke to be the official soda (over hometown sugar water seller Pepsi) he says they want Brooklyn food vendors to feed the hoped for teeming masses. Finally, some of those Brooklyn-friendly jobs the project promised?

"We are committed to bringing the best of Brooklyn to Barclays Center and to draw on the borough's dynamic food scene," Ratner said in a statement. "Our goal is cast a wide net to make Barclays Center's culinary experience as quintessentially Brooklyn as it gets." As such, the stadium has created an online survey to help find local businesses that are not only interested in being vendors but can also handle the demands of such a large audience.

In our dream world this will lead to an arena-sized version of Smorgasburg, but we have a sneaking suspicion that it'll just means we'll be getting chicken wings from Jay-Z's cousin's restaurant and hot dogs from Nathan's served with some of those custom Brooklyn Coke flavors we were promised. Maybe a few bottles of beer from Brooklyn Brewery if we're lucky.

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