Take Me Out to the Ball Game Cafe

"Once upon a time, in a big-league ballpark, a 60-year-old white guy who worked downtown might end up sitting next to a 17-year-old black kid from the inner city," sports writer Michael MacCambridge, author of The Franchise: A History of Sports Illustrated Magazine, told me. But in the newest sports arenas, affluent fans sit in luxury skyboxes, corporate suites and expensive restaurants like Ruggles, and watch the game on TV monitors. "They are not really watching the game anymore. They are watching people watching the game."

Ruggles at Enron is a fascinating restaurant with very innovative food. It's a great place for people to get together before or after a baseball game or on a day when the Astros aren't playing. But from now on, when I take my kids to see a ball game, we will sit in the cheap seats and eat chili dogs. Our dinner at Ruggles taught me that going to the ballpark is about being part of the crowd.

Amy Spangler

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333 Crawford

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Ruggles at Enron Field, 333 Crawford, (713)259-8080.