It’s been done so many times it’s a cliche at this point. The Super Bowl MVP, fresh off triumphantly capturing the top prize in his sport and scraping the face of greatness, gets a camera shoved in his face. A slightly cartoon-ish disembodied voice asks “PLAYER NAME, you just won the Super Bowl, what are you going to do now?”
And the player in question responds “I’m going to Eminem’s spaghetti restaurant!”
Alright, that probably *won’t* happen, but we can’t rule it out. Especially now that the revered rapper is bringing his lyric-inspired comfort food slop shop — both very real and, in a proper confluence of Detroit legends, located on the ground floor of Little Caesar’s global headquarters — with him to the west coast.
Eminem’s Mom’s Spaghetti will set up shop inside what used to be Los Angeles’s Uncle Paulie’s Deli on S. Spring Street for a five-day run of Italian-ish food and 8 Mile references. You can get your authentic, Michigan-style pasta from February 9 to 13, though getting there after the big game will be tough; it shuts down at 8pm on Super Bowl Sunday.
Mom’s Spaghetti has existed under Eminem’s gentle guidance in some form since 2017, taking on pop-up status before the proper brick and mortar location opened in 2021. The Takeout’s Leor Galil visited the restaurant in December and came away with a verdict of “ain’t bad.” It’ll have cheaper prices than the concession stands at Super Bowl 56, but not by all that much; it’ll run you $13 for a “s’ghetti sandwich” and $14 for noodles and meatballs.
Worse yet, they only sell Pepsi products,
(courtesy of MomsSpaghetti.com)
I suppose that last part was inevitable since Pepsi is sponsoring the halftime spectacle that’ll bring Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar together for what promises to be, if nothing else, a million times better than watching the Maroon 5 guy get naked.
As of Thursday night, the get-in price to Super Bowl 56 was $3,300. If you’ve got $3k to burn and can’t bargain your way into SoFi Stadium, there’s still good news. That cash will still get you 230 s’ghetti sandwiches or, if you’re really thirsty, 1,000 Pepsi products you’ll immediately wish were Coke instead.
