Here’s What You’ll Be Eating and Drinking at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans

31 January 2025

A loaf of French bread stuffed with fried oysters, bacon, shredded lettuce, and tomato. — A fried oyster po’ boy BLT is a new addition to Superdome food for the Super Bowl. | Sodexo Live!

Where to find alligator sausage, fried oyster and bacon po’ boys, and a loaded spicy bloody mary

New Orleans is a dream Super Bowl location, at least according to one chef.

“The menu here is one of the most contested that we do,” says Jen Bargisen, Sodexo Live!’s senior vice president of culinary. “Everyone wants that New Orleans experience, and we are really focused on giving it to them. If somebody got off a plane, went to the game, and got right back on, we want them to have left with a taste of New Orleans,” she says.

Bargisen — along with hundreds of other chefs and workers — is in charge of what attendees will be eating at Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, February 9. And much like the Superdome itself, which has undergone a complete renovation in preparation, the food menu at the stadium has also gotten an upgrade for game day.

The Superdome’s new bread pudding will be on the menu on game day.

There are new additions to the New Orleans menu sold at the Superdome during the regular season, like po’ boys (all on Leidenheimer bread, the city’s largest maker of po’ boy bread) and bread pudding, the winning recipe for which was created by Brandon Felder, executive chef for the New Orleans Convention Center. Bargisen calls it “out of this world,” and says it will be baked fresh in the last few days leading up to the Super Bowl.

There are also some new stadium classics, updated with a luxury Super Bowl twist: a lobster karaage sandwich, for instance, and seafood nachos with blackened shrimp and a seafood cheese sauce. Bargisen says the team at Sodexo Live! is planning to feed some 62,000 attendees by preparing more than 6,500 pounds of shrimp and 12,000 oysters — both sourced from American Seafoods Inc. in New Orleans, and 50,000 Leidenheimer baguettes.

Here is your guide to all the best new Superdome food and drinks at Super Bowl IX and where to find them.

The Big Easy big game banh mi (vegetarian)

Sections 217, 259, 513, 543

Beer-battered maitake mushrooms, pickled vegetables, cucumber, mushroom duxelles, and remoulade are served on Leidenheimer bread in this sandwich.

Lobster karaage sandwich

Sections 227, 269

This sandwich combines panko-coated butterflied lobster tail drizzled with lemon pepper sauce, butter lettuce, tomato, and remoulade sauce on a brioche bun.

Surf n’ turf po’ boy

Sections 217, 259, 513, 543

Smoked short rib, fried shrimp, Mornay sauce, remoulade sauce, tomatoes, and lettuce all end up on Leidenheimer bread here.

Fried oyster po’ boy BLT

Sections 106, 122, 150

Cornflake-coated fried oysters, thick-cut brown sugar-glazed bacon, spicy mayo, tomatoes, lettuce, and topped with chicharron and chive crumble get piled on Leidenheimer bread.

Soft shell crab po’ boy

This sandwich puts whole soft-shell crab battered and fried, Frito Lay special spread, tomatoes, and lettuce on Leidenheimer bread.

Alligator sausage po’ boy

Sections 104, 113, 124, 141, 135, 205, 227, 239, 269, 506, 525, 536, 555, 613, 615, 639, 641

Alligator sausage is topped with seafood etouffee on Leidenheimer bread.

Seafood nachos

Sections 111, 139, 247, 281, P137, P506, P536, and East bunker club

Cajun blackened shrimp, nacho cheese seafood sauce, guacamole, cilantro, and pico de Gallo gets piled on tortilla chips.

Loaded spicy bloody mary

Plaza level at the 122 bar; terrace level at the 515 bar

Ketel One vodka and bloody mary mix with olives, pepperoncini, spicy green beans, celery, cheese, bacon, and spicy okra all make up this beverage.

Royal Carnival Queen

Plaza level at the 114 and 142 bar; terrace level at the 545 bar

Crown Royal apple, blackberry liqueur, lemon juice, prosecco, and a twist of lemon appear in this drink.

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