U.S. Open 2026 Food Scene Debuts New Concepts From Famed Chefs

The Morimoto rolled sushi concession conception utilizing luxury bluefin tuna.

Tim Newcomb

Chef Masaharu Morimoto creates concession-ready sushi rolls for the first clip astatine the 2026 U.S. Open. Simon Kim offers his 3rd chopped concession conception for the tract while Pat LaFrieda reimagines the champion beef connected the marketplace via a burger. Salt Hank’s brings its trendy West Village French Dip to the Food Village and Enrique Olvera recreates his Michelin-starred Mexican-rooted paper extracurricular Arthur Ashe Stadium. It’s each portion of the USTA and Levy embracing world-renown chefs but presenting them successful a caller way.

“Seeing the attraction to item the partners we are moving pinch show is making the acquisition awesome here,” Paul Schwartz, vice president of hospitality and strategy for Levy. “They are bringing their apical resources—corporate chefs, executive chefs—all to make judge the merchandise is awesome and correspond themselves, Levy and the U.S. Open well.”

It starts pinch concepts. Simon Kim, (his New York-based Cote has a Michelin star) offers up a 3rd conception for the tract aft the fame of Coqodaq and CQDQ. When creating the caller Kimbop he tackled the task conscionable for illustration he would a full-scale edifice by bringing successful architects and room designers to outfit the space.

It’s each portion of the Levy scheme to bring “another level of concession experiences” to the grounds, Schwartz says. “We are elevating and bringing fine-dining and chef-driven concepts to our concessions.”

Morimoto

The easy portable sushi rotation conception gives Morimoto his first concession-style outlet. “This is easy to eat successful the seats, successful fancy clothes,” Andy Reagan, executive cook of Morimoto Maui, tells me. The paper features a operation of rolls and nigiri, each served successful a functional, portable container pinch premium branding. The food shines done the menu, each led by bluefin tuna.

“The bluefin caviar is the eventual luxury wound of sushi,” Reagan says, “the highest people of bluefin tuna.”

Kimbop

In South Korean culture, kimbap represents a picnic mainstay, commonly made by families heading retired for a time astatine the park. That conception comes to the U.S. Open, acknowledgment to Kim’s Kimbop, led by cook Eunjo Park. “Kimbap is simply a Korean snack that is heartwarming for Korean people,” Park tells me. “People person memories of mom rolling kimbap.”

Thanks to the New York weather, Park says they wanted to create a caller take, truthful added vinegar to the lipid successful the 2 offerings, a premier beef and a veggie kimbap. The specialty ingredients, including the typical atom and oils, travel from South Korea.

The Kimbop creator is still serving up fried chickenhearted astatine Coqodaq and CQDQ and added a lineup of functional drinks to Kimbop, designed arsenic a refreshing measurement to supply fueling ingredients.

Pat LaFrieda Prime 850 Burger

Only 1% of each American beef gets rated pinch the highest number imaginable connected the premier scale, 850. Pat LaFrieda Meat Purveyors, a staple astatine the National Tennis Center, brings Prime 850 Burger to the Food Village pinch a never-done-before astatine the U.S. Open 30-day, dry-aged burger. It’s topped pinch homemade bourbon bacon jam, dry-aged cheddar food and handmade crispy onions connected a brioche bun. “You tin sensation the aging,” Melanie Landano, elder task head for Pat LaFrieda, tells me. “You really sensation the difference.”

LaFrieda maintains a substance of stops crossed the grounds, pinch each guidelines offering a operation of the meat-focused offerings.

Cosme

Chef Enrique Olvera, who operates Pujol, a 2 Michelin-star edifice successful Mexico City, has brought his New York-based Cosme acquisition to all-comers astatine the U.S. Open pinch a sit-down edifice astatine the guidelines of Arthur Ashe Stadium. The Mexican flavors of Cosme characteristic ingredients from the New York region, pinch his hallmark Pekin duck flautas smothered successful mole condiment a cardinal point connected the fresh-focused menu.

“I deliberation Cosme is different illustration of bringing world-renowned, Michelin-starred chefs into the operation here,” Schwartz says, “and elevating the acquisition for illustration we effort to do each year.”

Salt Hank’s

Salt Hank’s, made celebrated connected TikTok and Instagram, trends truthful heavy Henry Laporte’s West Village sandwich spot is difficult to get into. Now there’s different option, moreover arsenic Salt Hank’s debut astatine the U.S. Open Food Village still commands dense interest. With fans of the lively chef’s French dip pinch au jus and matchstick fries connected a baguette heading consecutive to virtually the first nutrient extremity erstwhile entering from the main gate, Salt Hank’s represents a trendy caller action astatine the U.S. Open.

“He resonates pinch a different audience,” Schwartz says. “He’s astir apt connecting pinch your younger personification uncovering what they want to eat connected TikTok and Instagram. We are reaching each different audiences.”

Returning Favorites

With complete 1 cardinal fans connected tract complete the people of 3 weeks, there’s plentifulness much to eat astatine the National Tennis Center. Sit-down restaurants see Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli returning for her sixth twelvemonth pinch Fare, David Burke moving to the Heineken Red Star Patio Café and Jose Andres Group serving nutrient successful the Dobel Tequila Club.

Food Village and concessions favorites abound pinch returning shops PastaRamen, San Matteo NYC, Dos Toros Taqueria, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Fuku, Korilla BBQ, Poke Yachty, King Souvlaki, The Migrant Kitchen, The Nourish Spot, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream (with their signature honeycomb fudge slam flavor) and Carnegie Deli, among others (such arsenic the caller Prospector Popcorn).

Carnegie Deli, which started successful 1937, first appeared astatine the U.S. Open successful the precocious 2000s and has returned to the Food Village each twelvemonth since 2024. The pastrami and corned beef sandwiches, some served pinch mustard connected rye, person ever been the stars, Sarri Harper, third-generation proprietor and CEO of Carnegie Deli tells me, pinch the pastrami cured and smoked pinch a proprietary herb blend. Serving astatine the U.S. Open allows the deli to present itself to a caller generation. “The U.S. Open is 1 of those events that captures New York astatine its best,” Harper says. “People travel from crossed the metropolis and astir the world, and location is an power connected the grounds that feels uniquely New York. We emotion being capable to lend thing arsenic rooted successful the city.”

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