Vote Citi Field: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Vote Citi Field is and who runs it

Vote Citi Field is a fan-voting campaign run by the New York Mets from the team's own site. Its home is the ballpark page at https://www.mlb.com/mets/ballpark/best-stadium-food, where the Mets direct supporters toward the USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice ballot and Citi Field's nomination in the Best Baseball Stadium Food category. This campaign belongs to the best-of vertical, but unlike a chamber or magazine roundup it is a single-venue honor: the thing being voted on is the food program at the Mets' stadium in New York City, and the audience is the team's own fan base plus the wider 10Best readership.

The division of labor matters for anyone voting. The Mets promote the push, set the tone of the appeal on their page and print the deadline; USA Today 10Best operates the actual Readers' Choice form. A supporter who wants to understand the mechanics of public votes in general can compare this drive with the roundups covered on our Best of New York City page, which answers to a different publisher entirely.

The dated record for this ballot

The run of confirmed years is the strongest fact on this page. The Mets state that Citi Field was named Best Stadium Food in 2023 and Best Baseball Stadium Food in 2024 and 2025, and that the venue is once again nominated by the USA Today 10Best 2026 Readers' Choice Awards. That makes 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 the campaign's editions, one per season, with a 2027 return dependent on the next nomination round.

The current window carries one printed date: voting ends March 16 at 11:59 a.m. EST. No opening date for the window is printed on the Mets page, and the same page is silent on the other terms a supporter usually wants. The Mets page prints no cap on how often a supporter may vote, and no eligibility terms appear there either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Treat that silence as the shape of the program rather than a flaw. The Mets are promoting somebody else's poll, so their page carries the appeal and the deadline while the 10Best form carries the fine print. Anything dated that is not March 16 or the 2023 through 2026 run should be taken from the live ballot rather than assumed.

How a supporter votes for Citi Field today

The mechanic is a two-step public vote. A supporter opens the Mets' ballpark page, where the Vote Citi Field block sits near the top with a VOTE NOW prompt and the printed deadline, then follows through to the USA Today 10Best Readers' Choice ballot. There, Citi Field appears as a nominee in the Best Baseball Stadium Food category, and the voter selects it and submits the form. Whatever verification the 10Best platform asks for on a given day, an email confirmation or similar, is printed on the form itself.

Because the Mets page does not restate the poll's rules, the form is also where a supporter learns whether repeat visits count and on what schedule. Planning a fan push around a daily-return habit that the ballot does not actually allow is the most common mistake in drives like this, so the fine print should be read once before any reminder campaign starts. A supporter who wants the literal sequence laid out can follow the voting steps listed on this page, which mirror what the Mets' page asks for in order: find the block, follow the link, select Citi Field, submit, and return only as often as the posted rules permit before March 16.

Where this ballot sits among New York's best-of programs

New York carries a crowded field of reader-voted honors, and Vote Citi Field stands apart from that group. The state's other programs are broad local roundups run by publications and chambers: the Best of Brooklyn ballot, the Best of Queens ballot and the Best of the Bronx ballot each cover a borough with dozens of business categories, while the Best of Hudson Valley and Best of Westchester programs cover their regions through magazine titles.

This campaign is narrower in every dimension. It names a single nominee rather than a category slate, it is promoted by the Mets from mlb.com rather than by a local publisher, and the deciding ballot belongs to USA Today 10Best, a national readers' choice platform, rather than to any New York outlet. That also changes the competitive picture: a Citi Field vote is cast against other ballparks across the country, not against neighboring New York businesses. For a business or fan group choosing where to spend outreach effort, the practical difference is that this ballot rewards one concentrated push in a single category, while the borough and regional roundups reward breadth across many.

Strengthening support for Citi Field before March 16

Every legitimate lever here runs through fan mobilization. The Mets' own page models the play: a direct ask, a prominent VOTE NOW prompt and a deadline supporters can see. A business or fan group riding along should do the same, posting the ballot link while the voting window stays live, asking season-ticket holders and newsletter lists directly, and timing reminders so the last one lands before the March 16 close rather than after it.

On outside help the Mets page says nothing at all: no statement for or against purchased support appears there, and the operative rules are whatever the 10Best form posts. That silence cuts both ways, so anyone considering paid support should understand the mechanics and risks first. Our award votes page explains how support for reader-voted honors is generally arranged, and no vote service, whichever one a campaign picks, can promise victory in a national poll of this size.