This page is for the NCAA tournament only. College football Saturdays live on a separate guide. March is daytime basketball, office brackets, and people who will not move until the buzzer.
Goal on West 3rd
Goal Sports Cafe at 8334 W 3rd Street is built for multi-game days: twelve 55-inch sets plus the 11-foot screen. Tell us your region when you sit down. We will not make a table share one muted feed.
Weekdays we open at 4pm (Tuesday lunch is the exception). Weekend tournament windows start at 9:30am. Call (323) 655-5955 for Sweet Sixteen and Final Four booths.
Santa Monica sports bars vs 3rd Street
Santa Monica sports bars own the beach crowd and the after-work Pico/Wilshire loop. Fine if you already live west of the 405. If your bracket watch is a West Hollywood or Beverly Grove plan — dinner on 3rd, then four games — driving to Santa Monica in March traffic is a first-round upset you do not need.
Goal is the inland, chef-kitchen version: pirate wings during the 9am tip, $5 cocktails into the nightcaps, valet on the curb.
Eat between tips
The Lineup sampler, nachos, pizza pies, Goal Burger. Kitchen details on the menu. For a citywide shortlist that is not tournament-specific, see best sports bars in Los Angeles.