Manci’s Antique Club – Daphne, Alabama

Manci’s Antique Club in Daphne, Alabama has been a Mobile Bay institution for decades, combining a restaurant, a bar, and a genuine antique collection into one building that feels unlike anywhere else on the Gulf Coast. The restaurant appeared in Season 4, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Better Than Ever,” which aired September […]

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Alabama, American, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 4

The Colonnade – Atlanta, Georgia

Frank Tarleton opened The Colonnade in 1927 in a white-columned house at the corner of Lindbergh Drive and Piedmont Road in Atlanta, serving Southern comfort food to a city that knew exactly what it wanted from a neighborhood restaurant. In 1962 the operation moved to its current location on Cheshire Bridge Road NE, where it

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American, Atlanta, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 4, Southern

Red Iguana – Salt Lake City, Utah

In 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated

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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, Utah

Schooner or Later – Long Beach, California

The name is a pun — a schooner is a 24-ounce chalice of beer — and it sets the tone for a breakfast and lunch spot that operates on Long Beach marina time, which is to say unhurried, waterfront, and worth the wait. Schooner or Later at Alamitos Harbor has been open since 1985, sitting

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American, Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2

Crystal Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Closed

Crystal Restaurant on Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh appeared in Season 4, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Taste of Everywhere,” which aired September 15, 2008, as a Lebanese and Mediterranean kitchen bringing authentic Middle Eastern cooking to Pittsburgh’s downtown dining scene. Also listed as Crystal on Penn, the restaurant earned its DDD

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Mediterranean, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Bryant-Lake Bowl – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bryant-Lake Bowl on West Lake Street in Minneapolis is a bowling alley, a theater, and a restaurant, all operating under one roof since 1993, and the combination works better than it has any right to. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008, as

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American, Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Smokey Valley Truck Stop – Olive Hill, Kentucky – Closed

Smokey Valley Truck Stop appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as a Kentucky truck stop serving Southern comfort food the way truck stops used to before chains took over every highway exit. The operation has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:

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Kentucky, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern

Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine – San Rafael, California

Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine started in 2003 with four employees selling at the San Rafael 4th Street Farmers’ Market. The food was so well received that a brick-and-mortar location followed in 2004, and the restaurant has since grown to four locations across Marin and Sonoma Counties. Sol Food appeared in Season 6, Episode 7

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Califonia, Restaurants, Season 6

Otto’s Sausage Kitchen & Meat Market – Portland, Oregon

Otto’s Sausage Kitchen and Meat Market on SE Woodstock Boulevard in Portland has been making sausages the German way — house-ground meat, traditional spicing, natural casings, smoked over real wood — since the Eichentopf family opened it in 1936. Four generations later the family operation is still running, still making the same bratwurst, knockwurst, and

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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6
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