{"id":659664,"date":"2026-04-02T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:25:16","slug":"red-sox-fans-set-to-return-to-fenway-park-struggling-team-lobstah-poutine-await","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/659664\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox fans set to return to Fenway Park; struggling team, ‘Lobstah poutine’ await"},"content":{"rendered":"

A struggling hometown ballclub and Lobstah Poutine will be greeting Red Sox fans as Fenway Park opens for the season.<\/p>\n

While it has been a dreadful start for the 1-5 Red Sox, Fenway\u2019s top chef says one of the newest concession items is already hitting it out of the park: French fries topped with lobster meat, clam chowder, bacon and scallions.<\/p>\n

The menu item, resembling the popular Canadian French fry-gravy dish, sits in a souvenir, New England fisherman\u2019s boat-shaped container and has its name, Lobstah Poutine, inscribed on the side.<\/p>\n

But make sure you have your money ready to spend on the poutine, costing just under $40 a pop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our over-the-top item,\u201d Fenway Park Executive Chef Ron Abell told reporters on a dreary Thursday, \u201cand it has gotten rave reviews so far from \u2026 testers. We\u2019ll be serving it in a beautiful boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 season will mark Abell\u2019s 21st since the chef debuted at Fenway in 2006. The concessions list keeps growing in the number of items and creativity, he said.<\/p>\n

Visitors to America\u2019s Most Beloved Ballpark this season will also have the opportunity to munch on a spicy grilled cheese featuring mango salsa and sourdough bread; a BBQ steak or turkey tip sub with mayonnaise and American cheese, which Abell said is a \u201ctake on\u201d North Shore roast beef; and Guiness beef stew \u2013 beef stewed for hours with onions, carrots served with pub pastry.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat item in April when the weather is like this,\u201d Abell said of the beef stew. \u201cThank goodness this isn\u2019t Opening Day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Red Sox are set to host the Padres for the first home game this season on Friday at 2:10 p.m. Temperatures are forecast to rebound after a cold, wet Thursday, hovering around in the 50s under cloudy skies.<\/p>\n

Other new amenities include watermelon slushies at the Angry Orchard Deck, a concession and social area on the second level of Fenway, and a slew of sweet dessert options from Nutella empanadas to caramelized banana bread pudding.<\/p>\n

Sarah McKenna, the franchise\u2019s chief experience officer, said she\u2019s excited for \u201ccake in a can,\u201d another new dessert offering that will be available at grab-and-go kiosks throughout the ballpark.<\/p>\n

McKenna called grab-and-go a \u201cwonderful addition\u201d that Fenway has offered since the 2018 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticularly with the pace of play, and everything speeding up, with the pitch clock,\u201d McKenna said, \u201cit\u2019s even more important now than ever that people can get what they need to get and get back to their seats to enjoy the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Boston Red Sox are at the bottom of the AL East as they play their home opener on Friday against the San Diego Padres. (Mark Stockwell\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A struggling hometown ballclub and Lobstah Poutine will be greeting Red Sox fans as Fenway Park opens for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,1350,84153,4,89,84152,35366,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-659664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-fenway-park","13":"tag-lobster-poutine","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-red-sox","16":"tag-red-sox-padres","17":"tag-red-sox-tickets","18":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116337465306541693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}