BOBilicious!

Inside Eating:Chef Borders has completely reconstructed BOB's fine-dining experience. Previously, even the expensive seats chowed on the same stuff as the masses -- hot dogs, burgers, cotton candy. But now, in-seat dining service for the pricey Clubhouse ticketholders includes upper-crust snacks like an outstanding crisp-casing, chargrilled, herbed chicken-Parmesan sausage topped with slivered onions, sweet green chile chunks and mild mozzarella. A ham and Jarlsberg Swiss sandwich on pretzel bread with whole-grain mustard butter is terrific, and there's plenty of fresh radicchio and baby spinach in the Chinese chicken salad.

Pre-game diners will find a greatly improved Strike Zone Lounge (Field Level), too, with classier choices including hand-carved roast sirloin, smoked turkey, barbecued pulled pork, and corned-beef sandwiches, plus a pasta station featuring penne with roma-basil, pesto or four-cheese sauce to be topped with a variety of things such as Italian sausage, applewood-smoked bacon, grilled chicken and sun-dried tomatoes.

Erik Guzowski

Friday's Front Row Sports Grill in Bank One Ball Park offers fans an opportunity to enjoy the game while dining restaurant-style.

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Chase Field

401 E. Jefferson St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Category: Sports/Recreation

Region: Central Phoenix

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602-514-8400. Hours: Baseball season, March to October

401 East Jefferson, Phoenix

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BOB's biggest makeover is in the Arizona Baseball Club, though, the exclusive restaurant on the suite level. Banished are tacky chafing dishes, in are live chefs serving a constantly changing buffet of carved prime rib with spicy rémoulade, turkey breast with prickly pear relish, braised pork with apple-mint relish, and pan-seared salmon with citrus-saffron sauce. Specials might include sushi, duck confit, wild mushroom and goat cheese burritos, cheese tortellini with pesto crème fraîche and imported prosciutto, mascarpone polenta, or chuka soba noodle and straw-mushroom salad in sesame-ginger dressing.

Suite guests, finally, will be pleased to know that Borders has massaged their menus, too, adding chef-manned pasta stations, lobster and specialty dessert carts including a signature Cracker Jack bar, covering fudge with frozen candy.

Downtown is still infested with too many sports bars, serving subpar food to fans more interested in drinking than dining. But things are looking up. The area is finally attracting quality restaurants. And Chef Borders has put a new face on BOB -- a handsome one indeed.