New Providence Park After Renovation

There are now 19 new dining destinations, and 30% more point of sale locations that have been added offering food and beverage services and hopefully reducing lines. Classics and favorites are on the menu, but so are over 20 new menu items this year. The managing hospitality brand, Park Provisions (powered by Levy which has experience managing other sport arenas as well) includes new restaurant partners and beverage providers, as well as partnerships with local companies that provide ingredients going into the food.

I had a chance to get a preview of the new offerings of the new Providence Park after renovation. Besides the obvious expansion of seats (which blend seamless into the rest of the stadium), there are more screens, larger screens, more cover from roofs, the $85 million dollar renovation also extends to the food and beverage stands. Here’s the scoop for the June 1 Timbers home game opening!

For example, the hot dogs and sausages you’ll find at Providence Park are from Zenner’s Sausage Company, made just half a mile from the park. I didn’t get to sample it on my preview visit, but I’m pretty excited for the Tillamook Mac and Cheese Hot Dog with Zenner’s Smoked Sausage that I saw on the new Tillamook Grill concession stand Evergreen Corner by Section 113. I’ll have a Mac and Cheese Hot Dog and a side of Mac and Cheese please.

You will see Tillamook in general in a few offerings, ranging from the classic cheeseburgers and Tillamook Salted Caramel Bar or Strawberry Sandwich to a Philly or Breakfast Quesadilla to Tillamook Bacon Queso Nachos. The nachos are legit, and although I admit I’m not sure why there was a breakfast quesadilla I was also digging it (I liked it better then the Philly quesadilla which tasted more like meat versus the classic egg bacon cheese combo). No complaints about more cheese available ever.

Not to worry vegetarians and vegans – they also offer Tofurky Chorizo with Heidi Ho Cheese Sauce at the Box to Box Nachos kiosk. I also saw offerings of Vegan Dogs and Beyond Meat Vegan Bratwurst, and even a Garden Bar Salad. Gluten free buns can also be substituted for a small fee. Rose City Paninis offers grilled vegetarian paninis. At the PTFC Grill, you’ll find the IMPOSSIBLE burger. They do a good job with the IMPOSSIBLE “meat” here – I mean look at it, you can barely tell it’s not real meat patty.

At the Spring Wood Rice and Noodle Bar Section 99 also on the main concourse, you can order a Vietnamese Noodle Salad with glass noodles, edamame, green onion, cabbage, cilantro, and sesame dressing which is super refreshing.



Food partner Hot Lips Pizza offers a cheese and veggie pizza (besides the popular pepperoni for omnivores). They will be offering their rotating specialty pizza by the slice too. Besides the classic pizzas and hot dogs I’ve already mentioned, look for rotating burgers of the month (example here is a Western Burger with bacon, cheddar, onion ring, bbq sauce), tots, Cuban sandwiches, and turkey and brie paninis among more of the food offerings at the new Providence Park.

From Tamale Boy, besides the Tomatilla Black Bean Tacos, find Chicken Tinga Tacos, and of course the Chicken Tamale. Another new restaurant friend at Providence Park is Podnah’s BBQ with brisket and pulled pork sandwiches

In terms of beverages, I spotted Underwood Wine everywhere (including its own wine bar on the new Duracell Deck), along with fellow local wineries
Westmount Wine, Free Public Wine. Kiosks for Wild Roots Spirits famous for their all natural berry flavored vodkas offering cocktails, Brew Dr Kombucha, and Bulleit Bourbon Whiskey are available too.

New renovated booths have more taps where I saws taplists of a dozen local beers, while there are still simple kiosks for those looking for Coors. You’ll also spot Widmer Brothers, Modelo, El Jimador Tequila, Aviation Gin, 2 Towns Cider, Dutch Brothers Coffee, and more.

As an example of another local business partner, Gonzalez Berry Farms is providing strawberries now for the Underwood Wine Berry Spritzers that as the season progresses will grow to include more from their berry farm – blueberries, marionberries, blackberries, even gooseberries.

Not to worry about what is your personal cost for all the newness. The Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC announced they have frozen concession prices from last season for this year, so you won’t be paying more then last year. There will also be some special “Park Pricing” games sponsored by Coors Light offering $2 hot dogs, $2 nachos, and $5 16 ounce cans of Coors Light at the six games on July 18, July 24, August 14, Sept 11, Sept 18, and Sept 25.

That said, some of the new items are located in the new premium area called Tanner Ridge. Here is where you’ll find La Hacha Cocina offering Tocino Pico hot dogs (bacon wrapped 1/3 lb Zenner’s Hot Dog, housemade pico de gallo), House of 75 with hand carved turkey and prime rib sandwiches, and Goose Hollow Bowls with made to order yakisoba noodles, rice, and mixed green bowls with choice of housemade pork char sui, roasted pineapple teriyaki chicken, or sweet chili tempeh.

They did a great job in adding the new levels with 4000+ new seats – it blends right in with the look of the rest of the stadium. Even though there is more capacity, I’m not sure if it’s because I was at a preview, but the park still seemed roomy. I theorize it is partially because the roof has a smaller footprint now but also because there seemed to be a few open areas?


The new scoreboard is huge – now 1,920 square feet of LED versus the original 800 square foot of LED signage. There have been replacements to use LED in more lighting and long “ribbon” LEDs also added along areas among the seating tiers.

Are you going to opening day, or any games at Providence Park this year? What are your favorite concessions that you go for when you go to the game?

Disclosure: I attended a media preview where I was able to sample some of the dishes and I also spent some time walking around to look at the options, but not everything was open yet.