The creative hub and events space for the local community serves coffees from Black-owned roasters. If you need a caffeine kick at any point of the day, try Sip & Sonder in downtown Inglewood. Other standouts include the ceviche marinero and marlin tacos. Shrimp is also a highlight it's ordered fried, steamed, diced, or smothered in jalapeño and chipotle-flecked oozy cheese. The star of the menu is pescado zarandeado, an entire grilled snook fish paired with spicy guacamole, red onions, and cucumbers-a famously tricky dish to prepare. For sides, the baked mac and cheese or tangy candied yams are a favorite.įind authentic Nayarit-style Mexican seafood at Coni’Seafood. Opened in 1975, Dulan’s covers the classics, especially fried chicken, oxtails, and smothered pork chops that make the restaurant a neighborhood darling. Or tuck in a napkin-or several-at Dulan’s Soul Food Kitchen.
Locals also order the jollof rice-tomato-based rice served with plantains. Order the egusi soup, a peppery stew of collard greens and ground pumpkin seeds that you’ll eat with your hands the soup arrives with fufu, a spongy cassava dough meant to be shaped into a scoop for doing so. For lunch, cross culinary continents to Veronica’s Kitchen for Nigerian food.
