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What is the best food to bring to the park?
Manuel Maggio
2025-06-17 04:04:32
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When you’re planning to go to one of St. Louis’s impressive selection of local parks, the third thing you need to decide—even though it might be the most important part of the whole day—is what to eat while appreciating nature. And by “this,” we mean this list of our favorite picnic finger foods to take to the park. Each one was recommended, tasted, tested, and approved by the Dogtown Pizza family, so you know they’re good. Charcuterie Board is a trick answer, and we stand by it, simply gather up all the best and most snackable foods—cured meats and sausages, soft and hard cheeses, pickles and olives, grapes and berries, nuts—and then arrange them on a large tray with crackers or sliced artisan breads. Add a jar of local honey from a farmers’ market for a bit of contrasting sweetness. Other options include Caprese Salad Kabobs, Fried Chicken, Pigs In a Blanket, Fresh Veg and Dip, Pinwheel Sandwich, Cucumber Finger Sandwiches, Pull Apart Bread, Seasonal Fruit, Cookies, Fat Bombs, Homemade Tortilla Chips, and Pizza, which is a finger food if you cut it right, in the party-cut style, making it bite-sized and portable. Any cookies at a picnic are the best picnic finger food to take to the park because they’re cookies, and cookies are a perfect food.
Dina DuBuque
2025-06-08 13:48:16
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The best food to bring to the park is takeout. Park picnics can be spontaneous things — an opportunity to be seized upon whenever the weather seems right. And because of this, the best food is not some homemade potato salad, but takeout. I once went to a park picnic with a loose fried chicken and bubbles theme, with Popeyes’ fried chicken and biscuits and Champagne. I can recall a peak-pandemic-era park dinner of takeout pasta and salad to share. But more often, I’m picking up tamales on Greenmarket days outside of Fort Greene park or banh mi and boba on my way to Prospect Park. Keeping the need for utensils at a minimum is preferable, so sandwiches are ideal, especially if they come from Court Street Grocers. Whereas a beach sandwich risks a dusting of sand and may need to survive hours in a cooler, park sandwiches have all the benefits of alfresco dining without ever growing soggy or sandy.
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Felton Zieme
2025-05-27 10:27:16
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You can make it special by packing crackers, chips or cookies you don’t usually buy. Grapes are a standard in our picnic, but they’ve gotten so expensive that they’re now a treat too. We like a mix of healthy and not-so-healthy. Grapes and baby carrots are our go-to healthy choices. I like these because they’re easy to eat and not messy or sticky. They hold up great in the cooler too. We also like cheese crackers and some kind of packaged cookie. Homemade cookies taste better, but store-bought handle being packed without crushing or smooshing. Sandwiches/Wraps Try turkey, beef, ham or hummus. Add Swiss, provolone, cheddar or American cheese. Savory sides Cheese crackers Chips Carrot sticks Celery sticks Bell pepper strips Pea pods String cheese Sweet sides Grapes Apple slices Whole peaches or pears Cookies