The San Diego Padres baseball team has announced some new food vendors and several new food items that will be introduced next week at Petco Park for the 2026 season.
The season kicks off next Thursday afternoon at the East Village ballpark, and opening-day ticketholders will be the first to sample some of the new items, including a braised beef short rib sandwich, fresh-baked flavored pretzels, an Italian-style caprese sandwich and a variety of Japanese curry dishes.
This chili cheese dog, topped with beef short rib chili, is one of the new food items that will be offered at Petco Park for the San Diego Padres’ 2026 season. (Armond Feffer / San Diego Padres)
Each year, the Padres bring in new food and beverage concessionaires, existing concessionaires roll out new dishes, and its in-house hospitality and retail partner Delaware North rolls out multiple new items.
This season’s two new vendors are San Diego’s Pop Pie Co. and the Japan-born restaurant chain Curry House Coco Ichibanya.
Pop Pie will operate a cart in Section 129 serving its top-selling savory pies, such as Classic Chicken and Green Hog & Cheese, made with slow-braised pork shoulder and roasted peppers.
Curry House Coco Ichibanya, operating in the park’s Mercado area in Secption 104, will be offering curry rice, curry buns, keema cheese fries and garlic nan bread. It will also be selling Sanyo Foods’ panko-crusted mackerel Fish Fry.
Gelati & Peccati’s caprese sandwich is one of the new food items that will be offered at Petco Park for the San Diego Padres’ 2026 season. (Armond Feffer / San Diego Padres)
San Diego-based Gelati & Peccati is returning this season with some new Italian sandwich option served on fresh-baked focaccia, the Mortadella, with stracciatella cheese, arugula and pistachios, and the Caprese, with stracciatella cheese, San Marzano tomataoes and basil pesto.
Delaware North will introduce The Shortstop, a braised beef short rib sandwich with Boursin aioli and au jus on a French roll with chips, as well as a chili cheese dog, an all-beef frank topped with short rib chili, cheese and onions. They will be served in Section 100 near the Home Plate Gate.
An assort of food items from Padres Pretzels, a new dining concept being introduced at Petco Park next week for the San Diego Padres’ 2026 season. (Armond Feffer / San Diego Padres)
Delaware North will also introduce a new concept, Padres Pretzels, on the Terrace Level at section 206. It will serve fresh-baked pretzels in a variety of flavors. There will be braided pretzels in ranch, honey mustard, classic salted and s’mores flavors. The stand will also offer pretzel bites, in cinnamon sugar and salted with cheese flavors.
San Diego-born Stone Brewing will return to the park this season in a newly renovated bar space on the Upper Level near Section 309 with scenic views of downtown and Coronado.
For more details on Padres’ food service, visit mlb.com/padres/ballpark/food.
Gelati & Peccati’s mortadella sandwich is one of the new food items that will be offered at Petco Park for the San Diego Padres’ 2026 season. (Armond Feffer / San Diego Padres)