The best sports bars to watch Super Bowl Sunday in Los Angeles
Silver Lake’s genre-bending, raucous, modern-Indian sports bar is worth a visit no matter how invested you are in baseball, football, basketball or hockey. Owner Avish Naran built a singular spot that’s big on simply having fun with it all: The ranch is flavored with curry leaf, the chicken tenders get a serious spin on the classics (jaggery and tamarind for the barbecue, achaari for the buffalo), and the onion rings come gloriously browned and puffy thanks to the dosa batter that serves as the breading. Even the cocktails are a notch above the usual sports bar sips, with options for “chai-rish coffee,” house-made mango lassi with mezcal, blood orange negronis, and amaro that’s scented with black and green cardamom. While chef Miles Shorey’s Indian-leaning takes on classic bar bites are always a win for game day, the pastas and pizzas — namely the signatures of Malai rigatoni and green-chutney pijja — are requisites no matter the occasion. This year Pijja Palace is celebrating the Super Bowl with an all-afternoon viewing party complete with discounted prices …
