The stadium sits in Inglewood, one of the great Black cities in California. Oddusee Los Angeles is your guide to Game Week — and to keeping the weekend's money in the neighborhood it landed in.
On February 14, 2027, Super Bowl LXI will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood — the second Super Bowl in the building, after LVI in 2022, and the latest in a long run of them across Los Angeles going back to the first one in 1967.
What makes this one different from the guide's point of view is where the stadium is. SoFi was built in Inglewood, a city that has been a center of Black life in Southern California for sixty years, a mile from the Crenshaw corridor and the Leimert Park blocks that anchor Black culture in this city. The restaurants within walking distance of the stadium are Nigerian, Belizean, Somali, Ethiopian, Jamaican, Creole and Southern.
So this page does one thing: it puts every Black-owned business we can verify on a map centred on SoFi, ringed by how far it sits from the gate, and asks you to plan the week around them.
| Event | Super Bowl LXI |
| Date | Sunday, February 14, 2027 |
| Kickoff | Afternoon Pacific — exact time TBA by the NFL |
| Venue | SoFi Stadium |
| Address | 1001 Stadium Dr, Inglewood, CA 90301 |
| Capacity | ~70,000, expandable past 100,000 |
| Getting There | Metro K Line to Downtown Inglewood, then the event shuttle |
| Tickets | Official NFL Super Bowl page |
Every pin is a Black-owned LA County business, ringed by distance from SoFi Stadium. Gold pins are the spots we are promoting. Filter by what you're looking for, or get your own business on the map.
Inglewood alone carries Nigerian, Belizean, Somali, Ethiopian, Jamaican, Creole and soul food inside two miles of the stadium. Start there and work outward.
Second-generation soul food from the Dulan family, cooking in South LA and Inglewood for decades. Build a plate around the fried chicken or smothered oxtails with candied yams and braised greens. Ten minutes from the stadium and reliably good on a game day.
View Listing →The Inglewood room of a family barbecue business going since 1975. Order the rib tips or the hot link sandwich and get the sauce on the side so you can taste the smoke first.
View Listing →Nigerian cooking on South La Brea with a menu that runs deep into soups and swallow. The efo riro and the goat pepper soup are the order, and the fried plantain is not optional.
View Listing →A downtown Inglewood breakfast and lunch cafe with a long, forgiving menu and a steady neighborhood crowd. Shrimp and grits, chicken and waffles, or a plain omelet all land.
View Listing →A family-run Belizean kitchen off Manchester, one of a handful in the whole county. Stew chicken with rice and beans, fry jacks at breakfast, and habanero sauce worth asking for.
View Listing →West African cooking on West Manchester, close enough to SoFi to work as a pre-game stop. Jollof, egusi and fried plantain are the anchors and the portions are serious.
View Listing →Smoked meats out of a small South Prairie storefront the Rams have filmed at more than once. Brisket, rib tips and hot links. Order ahead on a game day or plan to wait.
View Listing →A long-running Jamaican counter doing jerk chicken, oxtail and curry goat in containers meant to be eaten in the car. Ask for extra gravy on the oxtail.
View Listing →Ethiopian cooking in a La Brea plaza, injera arriving warm and combination platters built for sharing. The veggie combo with misir wot and gomen is the move.
View Listing →Nigerian food on West Manchester that locals call the fufu spot for good reason. Egusi and ogbono with pounded yam, and goat meat cooked down properly.
View Listing →The Inglewood branch of the LA institution founded by Herb Hudson, still the default answer when someone asks where to eat before a game. Get the Scoe's and don't skip the smothered gravy.
View Listing →Chefs Yaw Marcus Johnson and Abdoulaye Balde's Afro-centric room on North La Brea, drawing on Ghanaian and Senegalese cooking with a real cocktail program. The dressed-up option nearest the stadium.
View Listing →A family-run Somali kitchen near the airport serving goat and camel over rice, sambusas, and a breakfast regulars swear by. The cardamom tea is free and you should take it.
View Listing →A Centinela Avenue institution feeding Inglewood since 1983, still drawing a weekend line out the door. Fried catfish and waffles, salmon croquettes with grits, smothered chicken.
View Listing →Straightforward New Orleans cooking on North La Brea where the gumbo is the tell. Gumbo, a fried catfish po boy, or red beans and rice on a Monday.
View Listing →Seafood by the pound plus fried baskets, from a Black-owned operation that grew out of South LA. Garlic butter shrimp or a catfish basket, with the corn and potatoes.
View Listing →An ambitious sit-down room on Slauson named for the Somerville Hotel, doing refined versions of dishes the neighborhood already loves. The collard green lasagna is the signature.
View Listing →A bakery and bistro on South Western serving breakfast and soul food since 1991. Come for the cakes and pies, stay for the chicken and waffles.
View Listing →A plant-based kitchen on South Western doing Caribbean-leaning vegan food that doesn't feel like a compromise. The Jamaican-style veggie patties and the mac and cheese.
View Listing →Southern plates out of a small Slauson kitchen run exactly like the name suggests. Smothered turkey wings, mac and cheese and yams, with cobbler if you time it right.
View Listing →The original Slauson location of the Woody family's business, going since 1975. Rib tips, hot links and beef ribs with the sweet red sauce that defines LA barbecue for a lot of people.
View Listing →A South Western fried fish counter that has fed the neighborhood for years. Whiting or catfish with hush puppies and collard greens, hot sauce on the counter.
View Listing →A health food market and kitchen on West Slauson, grocery and supplements on one side and a full kitchen on the other. A View Park fixture for decades.
View Listing →A brunch room on the Ladera Heights and Westchester edge from the team behind Taco Mell. Salmon croquettes, shrimp and grits, and a chicken and waffle plate people plan Saturdays around.
View Listing →The Crenshaw Boulevard branch of the Dulan operation, with a takeout window that moves fast. Golden fried chicken, braised greens, candied yams, cornbread that isn't too sweet.
View Listing →Jermelle Henderson's Leimert Park taco counter, where the deep fried tacos and the soul cake are what people talk about. Catering is a big part of the business.
View Listing →A Gardena counter that took the smashed patty seriously before everyone did. The signature burger with house sauce, and the garlic fries are not an afterthought.
View Listing →A straight-ahead soul food counter on El Segundo Boulevard. Oxtails, smothered turkey wings, greens and yams, priced fairly and portioned generously.
View Listing →The closest Black-owned sweet shop to the stadium, and a cake shop that built its name on one thing then kept doing it perfectly. The red velvet is why people drive across town; the peach cobbler holds its own.
View Listing →A tiny takeout window turning out dense, tall cheesecakes for decades, with the Food Network segments to prove it. Sweet potato and lemon are the ones regulars fight over. Cash and carry.
View Listing →A neighborhood ice cream shop on East Manchester making its own flavors and stacking them high. Banana pudding and sweet potato pie are the ones to ask about.
View Listing →The North La Brea flagship of the Hilltop group, founded in 2018 by Yonnie Hagos and partners. A full coffee bar with a kitchen doing all-day food in downtown Inglewood.
View Listing →Lara Curtis's small tea shop on Crenshaw Boulevard, open since 2015, serving loose-leaf blends, tea drinks and baked goods to a mostly neighborhood crowd.
View Listing →Chace Johnson's coffee bar on Degnan Boulevard, on the block of galleries and record shops that has anchored Black cultural life in LA for decades.
View Listing →The Slauson outpost, next door to Somerville on the View Park stretch. Espresso, breakfast burritos, and a patio that stays busy all morning.
View Listing →Event caterer based in Hyde Park handling private parties, celebrations and corporate catering across LA. The one to call if you are feeding a house during Game Week.
View Listing →Full-service catering and event services on Crenshaw Boulevard. Quotes by phone or through the site, weekday office hours.
View Listing →Wine bars, cigar rooms, sports bars and the jazz houses that Black Los Angeles built. The Inglewood cluster is walkable from the Market Street blocks; the Leimert Park rooms are worth the drive.
The closest live music room to SoFi: a Black-woman-owned restaurant lounge doing intimate jazz and blues in Inglewood for eleven years, with programming built around ticketed sets.
View Listing →A sports bar and restaurant on South Market Street in downtown Inglewood, screens across more than one floor, a short walk from both SoFi and the Kia Forum. The obvious watch-party room.
View Listing →Smokehouse and sports bar on Market Street doing brisket and rib tips with sidewalk seating, hookah and DJ sets. Margarita Mondays and a regular weekend program.
View Listing →A cigar lounge on Manchester with a pool table and a patio, running something nearly every night: live music, Taco Tuesdays, DJs.
View Listing →Appointment-only, blacked-out windows, high-end leather and a rotating stock of limited cigars. Call ahead; this is not a walk-in.
View Listing →Inglewood's first and only wine bar, founded by Inglewood-raised siblings Leslie and Le Jones, with what it calls California's largest list of Black-owned wines. Also an event space.
View Listing →A private cigar lounge and members club grown out of the DROBE custom clothing brand, pairing bespoke suiting with the humidor.
View Listing →The Crenshaw club that hosted Ike and Tina, Marvin Gaye and the Jackson 5, reopened as Maverick's Flat Social & Night Club. The most storied room on this list.
View Listing →Founded in 1989 by drummer Billy Higgins and poet Kamau Daaood, dedicated to African American music and the oral tradition. Programming most nights of the week.
View Listing →The Leimert Park room founded by the late vocalist Barbara Morrison and still programming under her name, running vocal jazz and blues.
View Listing →A bar, lounge and restaurant on Crenshaw at the edge of Leimert Park, with indoor and outdoor seating, a full bar and a stage.
View Listing →A Creole institution run by the same Black family since 1969, with a full bar and a weekend crowd that treats it as a night out.
View Listing →Chef Keith Corbin's Michelin-recognized West Adams room, California soul food over live fire with a full cocktail bar. Dinner only, Tuesday through Sunday.
View Listing →A wine bar and bottle shop on West Adams built around low-intervention wines from independent farmers. Happy hour Tuesday through Saturday.
View Listing →The Crenshaw hot dog and sausage counter near Leimert Park, grouped with the city's bars in some listings but really a neighborhood institution in its own right.
View Listing →Beauty supply owned by the women who shop in it, two of the best Black bookstores in the country, and a home goods store that has been on Slauson for twenty years.
Inglewood native Lia Dias's beauty supply, selling wigs, human hair extensions, ponytails and hair care in a room built to be browsed without pressure.
View Listing →Diann Valentine's Inglewood store carrying hair care, cosmetics, wellness products and a deliberate shelf of Black-owned beauty brands.
View Listing →Human, braiding and crochet hair along with wigs, ponytails and a broad product range, in downtown Inglewood.
View Listing →The South LA location of the Black-woman-owned chain, same judgment-free concept, stocking wigs, bundles and hair care.
View Listing →Home decor and gifts from Africa, Asia and Latin America, open on West Slauson for more than twenty years.
View Listing →A holistic marketplace in Leimert Park Village selling topical and ingestible products aimed at pH balance and the nervous system, and hosting pop-ups.
View Listing →The independent African American bookstore specializing in books of cultural diversity, plus Black-themed gifts, author events and a second store in the Crenshaw plaza.
View Listing →A concept bookshop and creative space in West Adams built around a Curated by Blackness selection of fiction, poetry, history and antiracism.
View Listing →South LA beauty supply carrying cosmetics, wigs, human hair, skincare, jewelry and accessories, in person and by delivery.
View Listing →A Watts beauty supply serving the neighborhood for more than twenty-five years, carrying hair care and barber supplies.
View Listing →SoFi Stadium was built in Inglewood, a city that has been a center of Black life in California for sixty years. The history is not somewhere else. It is the neighborhood the stadium sits in, and the corridor just up the road.
A 200-acre cemetery founded in 1905 holding an extraordinary concentration of Black American musical and athletic history, and it sits within walking distance of the stadium. Start here if you only do one thing.
View Listing →The intersection of Slauson and Crenshaw, renamed by the Los Angeles City Council on the day of Nipsey Hussle's 2019 funeral. The corner is a gathering place, not a monument, and it is treated that way.
View Listing →The 1.3-mile open-air museum along Crenshaw Boulevard, built by and for Black Los Angeles, with commissioned work from Black artists running the length of the corridor.
View Listing →The block of galleries, record shops, cafes and drum circles that has anchored Black cultural life in Los Angeles for decades. Walk Degnan on a weekend afternoon.
View Listing →The nonprofit Mark Bradford co-founded with Allan DiCastro and collector Eileen Harris Norton, pairing a free contemporary art space with foster-youth services.
View Listing →The museum inside the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, founded to show African American and African diaspora art, still operating as the mall around it is redeveloped.
View Listing →Chartered by the state in 1977 and open in Exposition Park since 1984, the first African American museum in the country fully supported by a state government. Admission is free.
View Listing →Opened in 1947 as the Broadway-Crenshaw Center, one of the first regional shopping centers in America designed around the car, and for two generations the commercial heart of Black LA.
View Listing →A 401-acre park in the Baldwin Hills often called LA's Central Park, on the site of the reservoir whose 1963 collapse killed five people. The best view of the city on this list.
View Listing →The green triangle the Olmsted Brothers laid out as the civic center of the 1928 subdivision, and now the front yard of Black cultural Los Angeles.
View Listing →Leon H. Washington Jr. founded the Sentinel in 1933 with the slogan "Don't spend your money where you can't work." It is still publishing, and still on Crenshaw.
View Listing →Founded in 1943 with roughly forty members and grown past twenty-four thousand, one of the most visible Black congregations in the country.
View Listing →Founded in 1945 and known as the Church of the Bells, anchoring the West Adams corridor and among the most politically engaged Black congregations in the city.
View Listing →Frederick K.C. Price founded the church in Inglewood in 1973 and in 1981 bought the former Pepperdine campus in South LA, where the FaithDome still stands.
View Listing →Lula and Erwin Washington founded the company in 1980 to give Black dancers in South Los Angeles a professional home. It has toured the world since.
View Listing →Ted Watkins walked to Watts from Meridian, Mississippi at thirteen during the Great Migration and founded WLCAC in 1965. The campus still runs programs and holds the civil rights history museum.
View Listing →The 1904 Pacific Electric depot that gave Watts its shape, built after the Watts family donated the land, and a Red Car stop on the line between Los Angeles and Long Beach.
View Listing →The West Adams center named for the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, running exhibitions and youth programs.
View Listing →Straight talk, the same as we gave Phoenix: we have not been able to verify a Black-owned hotel in Inglewood or the surrounding cities. Rather than pad this section, here is what we do know.
The hotel supply nearest SoFi sits along Century Boulevard by LAX and through Westchester. It is ten minutes from the stadium on a normal day and considerably longer on this one. Book with that in mind.
The Metro K Line runs from Expo/Crenshaw down through Leimert Park, Hyde Park and Downtown Inglewood to Westchester. Staying anywhere along it gives you the Crenshaw corridor and the stadium without moving a car.
Super Bowl rates surge and multi-night minimums are standard. Lock in refundable rates now and re-check in the autumn once blocks are released.
If you run a Black-owned hotel, bed and breakfast or short-term rental anywhere in LA County, submit it below. We will verify it and put it on this map before the weekend.
Super Bowl ticketing is run by the NFL, not by us. Here is how it generally works and what has not been announced.
A small block of face-value tickets is distributed by random drawing each year, entered months in advance. Watch the official Super Bowl page for when the LXI draw opens.
This is where almost everyone actually buys. Prices move fast and anything well below market is a red flag. Face-value pricing for LXI has not been announced.
Super Bowl weeks normally include a multi-day fan experience at the host city convention center along with free community events. The LA lineup and venues have not been announced; we will post them here as they are confirmed.
Most people in LA that week will never get inside SoFi, and that is fine. The Nile Bar, The Wood and every lounge above will have it on. Spend the ticket money on a table instead.
SoFi Stadium
1001 Stadium Dr
Inglewood, CA 90301
Metro K Line to Downtown Inglewood, then the event shuttle. The K Line also runs north through Hyde Park and Leimert Park to Expo/Crenshaw, which is how to see the corridor without parking twice.
Promoted spots sit on top of the map in gold, with a featured strip above it, through the whole run-up to the game. Open to Black-owned LA County businesses: restaurants, lounges, shops, services and event venues.
The stadium is in Inglewood. The food, the rooms, the history and the money should be too.