The Warriors score six new season eateries

Good Taste is a menu for eating well in the Bay Area. This week, we got an exclusive preview of the six new eateries opening this week at Chase Center in time for the Golden State Warriors’ 2025-26 season. Subscribe to our newsletters, including Good Taste, for more weekend-exclusive food & drink news delivered to your inbox.

With an eye for industry trends and direct input from fans, Chase Center is introducing six new eateries this basketball season, as well as new premium dishes on rotation in the Chase Club, JP Morgan Club, courtside lounges, club suites, and theater boxes. I was invited to a tasting on Monday, and was impressed by the overall high quality of selections.

Fans wanted more sandwiches, so they created a new counter called Stacked Sandos. I think the move here is to get the bulgogi beef cheesesteak for a little kick, but there will also be a Cali cheesesteak and a French dip on rotation. The loaded cheesesteak fries were excellent as well.

“I added a vegetarian cheesesteak that nobody’s seen yet, because I wanna perfect it,” said executive chef Toussaint “Chef T” Potter, who is a legend in the culinary end of sports. He’s also working on soup so that there can be half soup, half sandwich combos.

They’re going hard on waffles this season, too. The Waffle Spot is serving chicken and waffles and a Golden Firebird Sando, a take on Nashville hot chicken that’s served with real maple syrup. I don’t eat chicken, so I am not able to share a personal opinion, but the latter was praised most during the tasting.

La Ciudad is the new spot for tacos, and I thought the BBQ beef burnt ends taco, which comes as a trio, was luscious. In his opening remarks at the tasting, Chef T mentioned how they think about the quality of everything they use, down to the masa, and I later noticed how beautiful the corn tortillas were.

Pure Catch will have tuna poké and vegetarian beet bowls. What I tried yesterday was miles better than the generic poké place I ate at the day before, and I would buy it on a future visit if I was in the mood. Also on offer: poké nachos and rangoons. 

Nuevos is described as a New Mexican concept with quesadillas. We didn’t sample anything from this area yesterday.

Ticketholders who have access to the premium areas of Chase Center will be served a rotation of beautiful dishes such as freshly carved prime rib and Porterhouse with red wine demi-glace, crab and lobster risotto, and forbidden rice. I’ve dined at the adjacent Miller & Lux restaurant several times, and feel secure saying that this meat is just as tender and juicy. I thought about it all day after leaving.

The new dessert eatery is called Swish & Sugar, which features items made with Mitchell’s Ice Cream. It’s part of an overall effort to highlight more local products from the San Francisco area.

“About the time you hit the middle of the second quarter, after you’ve eaten all that food, you look for something sweet,” smiled Potter. 

My favorite use of Mitchell’s by far is in their new root beer floats, which I will beeline for the next time I am in the arena. But you’ll also find it in waffle ice cream sandwiches—including one with candied bacon—and atop warm jumbo blondies and brownies.

There will also be new items from the local restaurants who sell inside the arena, such as a soft serve ice cream program from Tony G’s Slice House Pizza, and the giant ube mozzarella cheese stick from The Sarap Shop that debuted during the Valkyries season. I tasted the latter at a recent preview for SOMA Pilipinas’ Tasty Trails, a self-guided map of Filipino restaurants and art in SF’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District.

In short: lots of new choices at the Chase Center, and there will be more to come. The Warriors’ first home game of the new season is on Thursday, so you’ve got time to get your winning snacking strategy together.

Tamara Palmer also publishes the California Eating and Food Book Club newsletters.