Black Duck Cafe on Riverside Avenue in Westport has been a Connecticut shoreline institution, combining fresh seafood with pub food in a waterfront setting that earns the loyalty of Fairfield County residents who know the difference between a proper fish sandwich and what passes for one in most suburban restaurants. It appeared in Season 6, […]
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Connecticut, Gastropub, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 6Lake Effect Diner on Main Street in Buffalo has been one of the city’s favorite breakfast and comfort food stops since it opened, named after the weather phenomenon that defines western New York winters and serving the kind of hearty scratch-made diner food that Buffalo winters demand. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 13 of
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Comfort Food, Diner, New York, Restaurants, Season 7Roberto’s Mexican Food appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as an authentic Mexican restaurant in the Anthem area north of Phoenix serving the kind of homemade, scratch-made Mexican food that earned a DDD segment. The operation has since rebranded as Tortas
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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In on West State Street in Boise has been a drive-in institution in the Treasure Valley since it opened, serving the Idaho specialty of finger steaks — beef strips battered and deep-fried, invented in Boise in the 1950s — alongside classic American drive-in burgers and the kind of comfort food menu that
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Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6Jamaica Gates Caribbean Cuisine on West Arkansas Lane in Arlington has been bringing authentic Jamaican and Caribbean cooking to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since opening, serving jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, and the kind of from-scratch Caribbean food that makes the drive from Dallas or Fort Worth worth it. It appeared in Season 6, Episode
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Carribean, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasBackroad Pizza on Second Street in Santa Fe has been building a reputation around fresh-made dough, quality toppings, and the kind of creative pizza combinations that reflect the New Mexican culinary environment — green chile on pizza is not a novelty here, it is the obvious move. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 6 of
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New Mexico, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6Sweetie Pie’s was a St. Louis soul food institution founded by Miss Robbie Montgomery, a former Ikettes backup singer who turned to cooking after an asthma diagnosis ended her performing career. The Manchester Avenue location appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 —
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Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, St. LouisFlakowitz of Boynton on West Boynton Beach Boulevard has been the go-to deli and bakery for South Florida’s Jewish community and anyone else who found their way in since it opened, serving classic Jewish-style breakfast and deli food with the house-baked breads, bagels, and pastries that distinguish a real deli from a deli in name
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Bakery, Florida, Restaurants, Season 6Bubba’s Diner appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Biscuits, Bagels and BLTs,” which aired May 4, 2009, as a San Anselmo diner in Marin County serving the kind of generous, scratch-made breakfast and diner food that built a loyal community following in one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, Season 6Peter and Irene Bournias emigrated from Chios, Greece in the 1950s and opened a tiny subway car diner in downtown Jersey City in 1968. They had no idea what a pancake was when they started. By the time their children took over, the family had invented 31 varieties of them. The Brownstone Diner and Pancake
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