Arleta Library Bakery & Cafe – Portland, Oregon

Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

Arleta Library Bakery and Cafe on SE 72nd at Harold in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood takes its name from the Arleta School building that once occupied the site — a neighborhood institution repurposed into a bakery and cafe that functions as a neighborhood institution of a different kind. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of […]

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Twisted Root Burger Co. – Dallas, Texas

Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Twisted Root Burger Co. opened in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood in 2006, built around the same creative burger philosophy that Kuma’s Corner was developing simultaneously in Chicago: take a serious 10-ounce beef patty and build something unexpected on top of it. At Twisted Root the wildcard is game meat — venison, elk, bison, wild boar,

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Slim’s Last Chance Chili Shack & Watering Hole – Seattle, Washington

Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 6, Seattle, Washington

Slim’s Last Chance Chili Shack and Watering Hole on First Avenue South in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood has been serving house-made chili, BBQ, and the kind of unpretentious bar food that earns a neighborhood reputation well before any camera shows up. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Burger, a

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La Piazza Al Forno – Glendale, Arizona

Arizona, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6

La Piazza Al Forno in historic downtown Glendale has been making Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza in a neighborhood a block from Murphy Park since opening, producing the kind of thin-crust, blistered, properly charred pizza that almost never shows up in the Phoenix suburbs. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A

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Matt’s Big Breakfast – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

In late October 2004, Matt Pool opened an 800-square-foot red brick restaurant on a quiet corner in downtown Phoenix. He had no advertising budget and a menu built around one conviction: food tastes better when prepared simply with better ingredients. Within a few years the lines were stretching out the door every day. It appeared

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Cafe Rolle – Sacramento, California – Closed

Califonia, French, Restaurants, Sacramento, Sandwiches, Season 6

Cafe Rolle appeared in Season 6, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Bit of Everywhere,” which aired April 20, 2009, as a Sacramento French sandwich and cafe operation bringing classic French preparations — fresh baguettes, charcuterie, and the kind of simple, quality-first French deli cooking that is exceedingly rare outside major metropolitan

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Kuma’s Corner – Chicago, Illinois

Burgers, Chicago, Gastropub, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 6

Luke Tobias opened Kuma’s Corner in 2005 at the corner of Belmont and Francisco in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, intending to run a craft beer bar with heavy metal on the sound system. The burgers caught on faster than the beer list. Almost every burger on the menu is named after a heavy metal or hard

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Starlite Lounge – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Pierogies and stuffed pepper soup are not the first things that come to mind when someone thinks of a bar outside Pittsburgh. But the Starlite Lounge in Blawnox has been drawing locals in with exactly those two dishes for over 50 years. Owner Ron “Moondog” Esser has run the place with a deep commitment to

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