The Progressive Field food menu, in my humble opinion, is one of the best in baseball.

The home of the Cleveland Guardians not only showcases iconic local restaurants, it offers a lot of the best in basic baseball food. Like hefty foot long hot dogs and true ballpark mustard.

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I’ve picked out ten items that I think you’ll like. Most all of these are on the lower level, although some of the concession stands have additional outposts in the upper level. If you’d like to see what else the Guardians offer, you can view more here.

I’ll start with some impressive sandwich selections, after this quick word from our sponsor:

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This sandwich almost didn’t last long enough to be photographed.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #1) Melt Bar & Grilled (Right Field District). Melt started in Lakewood with a simple goal: “gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and lots of beer”. The restaurant is no more unfortunately, but the Guardians still list it in their menu.

They have multiple types of large grilled cheese sandwiches at Guardians games. The sandwiches are made with huge slices of Texas Toast and include a bag of chips.

Try the chorizo and potato or the mushroom sandwich with grilled onions. That might be the best vegetarian meal I’ve had at a game.

Melt also has mac and cheese bowls, such as a Buffalo version topped with chicken. I trust these folks to get the taste right!

The beer there is pretty good too.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #2) Fat Head’s Brewery (Infield District). Fat Head’s is a North Olmsted brewery and sandwich shop known for large-sized sandwiches that they call “Headwiches” (because they’re the size of your head).

They have a “Fat Italian” – ham, salami, capicola, pepperoni and hot sausage with provolone, banana peppers and a hard-boiled egg; and a “Southside Slopes” – a kielbasa with pierogies, American cheese, grilled onions and horseradish sauce.

The Slopes, incidentally, was voted #5 Best Sandwich in America by Maxim Magazine.

They make great craft beers too, including some award-winners at the Great American Beer Festival. If you like citrus beers in the summer, Fat Head’s is for you.

Recent addition to the menu: Pepper Jack bites! Crusted Pepper Jack cheese with ranch dressing included for dipping.

Worth a try just because the name of the place is so cool.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #3) Throwin’ Smoke BBQ (Main Concourse). Throwin’ Smoke isn’t a local eatery, just a cleverly named BBQ stand. The sandwiches are definitely BBQ messy and you should probably sit down to eat one. They have a BBQ mac and cheese in a baseball helmet too (I would clean it out before wearing it).

You can get a pulled pork, chicken or beef brisket sandwich or bowl. Have it topped with slaw, sharp cheddar and pickle chips. The Barbacoa Bowl includes crumbled BBQ barbacoa in tomato chipotle sauce, rice, black beans, shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, guacamole, sour cream and salsa.

So there’s your sandwich selections. But in Cleveland, they take ordinary ballpark items a step further…check out Happy Dog, for example!

Get froot loops on your hot dog. Only in Cleveland.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #4) Happy Dog (Infield District). At the actual Happy Dog in Gordon Square, they have over 50 toppings for hot dogs. But at the Prog the pared down offerings are wacky enough. Witness the Slider Dog…topped with Froot Loops, mac and cheese and bacon.

Wait, what? Froot Loops? Yes.

They have other unusual options for baseball’s classic food here, so check it out. Last I looked there was a Bat Flip Dog – with feta, cucumber, sriracha, tomato, onion and aioli; and a High & Inside Dog – with pulled pork, nacho cheese, a pickle spear, and grape chili sauce (!).

All Happy Dog dogs are all-beef quarter-pound sizable hot dogs on poppy seed buns. I would get a fork for the heftier ones. Froot Loops…wow.

Bacon bits AND slices. You almost expect Kevin Bacon to make an appearance.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #5) Build-A-Burger (Main Concourse). The name Build-A-Burger invokes the obvious question: how many toppings can I pile on? We are paying ballpark prices here, so get your money’s worth. You can find this one in the left field corner.

Here you go: get an All-American burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion and pickles. Or make it interesting with a pulled pork burger topped with BBQ sauce slaw, sharp cheddar and bacon (bits or slices!).

Several types of fries here, which I’ve read are crispy and excellent. Chicken tenders too. Get them topped with pulled pork, queso blanco, and/or peppers and onions or just plain loaded.

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Sorry for not getting a picture of the spaghetti and meatball pizza. But I doubt anyone who ordered it would have let me.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #6) Dante’s Inferno (Infield District). Dante’s Inferno is the pizza shop of Cleveland chef Dante Boccuzzi, the owner of several top-rated Cleveland restaurants.

No typical ballpark pizza, this. Dante’s actually has a spaghetti and meatball pizza, and yes, it does have noodles on it (not a lot though, so don’t worry about the carbs).

Dante’s also has a spicy Inferno pizza with sausage, pepperoni, olives and hot peppers, and an above-average veggie pizza with zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms and basil walnut pesto. Or just plain or pepperoni.

Dante’s sells pizza by the pie, and it’s a good-sized pie for one.

I should probably rank these next selections higher, because they’re all great. Just saying that the Prog is a super place to get your Mexican fix on:

That’s what nachos need, folks…lots of ingredients.

Progressive Field Food, Tip #7) Barrio (Right Field District). Barrio is a Tremont-based eatery with build-your-own tacos. You can get chicken or chorizo tacos and they have a veggie “street corn” version too.

But I must add that Barrio does a very impressive plate of nachos; they feature melted and shredded cheese (yes, both), and several different salsas with chicken or chorizo for a small extra fee. I listed this one in my top ten ballpark foods I’ve tried.

The chips are a bit salty in my opinion, but it’s definitely superb nachos for a ballpark, and it can easily feed two.

Not just sour cream…cilantro-lime cream. This is a ballpark, remember?

Progressive Field Food, Tip #8) Momocho (Infield District). Momocho is an Ohio City joint owned by Eric Williams, another “Best Chef” award winner, this time by Scene readers.

Momocho is all about nachos and quesadillas. The chips are made to order and heated in a giant rotisserie oven and served with homemade guac and salsa.

Your choices of toppings include Rostizado chicken or Barbacoa pulled pork. They come with pickled jalapenos, green salsa and cilantro-lime cream. You can add extra queso, smoke BBQ sauce, beans or salsa for a fee that is worth it.

I thought the Barrio nachos were slightly superior, and a couple of nice fans whose opinion I asked at the train station agreed, but I will say the Momocho chips were less salty. And they’re definitely still a great plate of loaded nachos. You wouldn’t regret choosing Momocho.

Note the complete absence of brown-ness on the guacamole!

Progressive Field Food, Tip #9) Ohio City Burrito (Infield District). I feel that the burrito is an ideal ballpark food. Very easy to walk around with and lots of flavors.

Ohio City Burrito is, as the name strongly implies, a burrito joint based in the Ohio City neighborhood; they take pride in the burrito rolling technique that is especially important for eating in a ballpark seat.

At the Prog outpost burrito types include chicken, pork carnitas, Barbacoa beef and a veggie (which is just minus the chicken or beef). Burritos include rice, black beans, onions, peppers, cheese, lettuce, and a choice of salsa, guac and/or sour cream.

They are all available in a bowl without that calorie-laden flour tortilla. OCB is also known for sweet homemade salsa.

Finally, even with the basics, the Guardians clearly care about your baseball fan needs:

See what I mean when I say the Guardians care about their fans?

Progressive Field Food, Tip #10) Big Hot Dogs With Bertman’s Mustard (Everywhere). At Sausages & Dogs or Ballpark Classics stands, whatever – if you look around, most of the generic stands have those really hefty half pound hot dogs.

These are like the footlongs you find at a lot of ballparks, only thicker, and with peppers, onions, and Bertman’s Ballpark Mustard piled on, it can be a great value by ballpark standards.

It’s been a few years since I’ve been to the Prog, but they used to have a Charred Dogs stand behind home plate. If you like the skin burnt on your dogs, it might be worth a look.

Read more about Bertman’s Mustard here…you’ll like this tale.

This should be the only legal way to cook a ballpark hot dog.

There you have it folks…ten great selections of menu items for your next game at Progressive Field. One word of caution…you’ll need your credit card (or Apple Pay or Google Pay device). I’m guessing there will be more of that in the future.

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