Jawaiian Irie Jerk Restaurant – Honolulu, Hawaii – Closed

Jawaiian Irie Jerk Restaurant appeared in Season 14, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Dynamic Dishes,” which aired July 2, 2012, as a Honolulu Caribbean and Jamaican restaurant bringing the jerk chicken, oxtail, and island comfort food traditions of Jamaica to a Hawaiian island that shares its own deep Polynesian food culture — a

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Foreign & Domestic – Austin, Texas

Foreign and Domestic on East 53rd Street in Austin has been one of the city’s most celebrated farm-to-table American restaurants since Ned and Jodi Elliott opened it, building a menu around locally sourced Texas ingredients and the kind of creative, technique-driven cooking that earns a neighborhood restaurant its national food media reputation in a city

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Hopleaf Bar – Chicago, Illinois

Hopleaf Bar on North Clark Street in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated craft beer bars and pub kitchens since Michael Roper opened it in 1992, building a menu around Belgian-inspired pub food — mussels, frites, and the Flemish comfort food traditions — alongside one of the most serious Belgian

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Afrah – Richardson, Texas

Afrah on East Main Street in Richardson has been one of the Dallas area’s most celebrated Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants since it opened, serving the mezze plates, shawarma, and slow-cooked Arabic dishes that earn a suburban Dallas restaurant its destination reputation among the DFW area’s large Middle Eastern community and the broader Dallas food

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Bachi Burger – Las Vegas, Nevada – Closed

Bachi Burger appeared in Season 14, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “International Eats,” which aired June 18, 2012, as a Las Vegas Asian-fusion burger operation building creative burgers with Japanese and Asian-influenced toppings — teriyaki glazes, kimchi, sriracha aioli — on quality beef patties in a format that earned a devoted Las Vegas

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Gazala’s Place – New York City, New York

Gazala’s Place on 9th Avenue in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood has been serving the food of the Druze people — an Arabic-speaking minority community with roots in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel whose cooking tradition is distinct from the broader Middle Eastern cuisines most New Yorkers are familiar with — since Gazala Halabi opened it, building

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Casper & Runyon’s Nook – St. Paul, Minnesota

Casper and Runyon’s Nook on South Hamline Avenue in St. Paul has been a Twin Cities burger institution since it opened in 1938, serving the Juicy Nookie — St. Paul’s contribution to the loosemeat and stuffed burger tradition — in a neighborhood tavern setting that has barely changed in nearly 90 years of continuous operation.

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Noble Pig Sandwiches – Austin, Texas – Closed

Noble Pig Sandwiches appeared in Season 14, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Serious Sandwiches,” which aired June 11, 2012, as an Austin sandwich operation building creative scratch-made sandwiches with house-cured meats, house-baked bread, and the kind of from-scratch commitment that earned it a devoted following in a city with an increasingly competitive sandwich

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Lola’s – A Louisiana Kitchen – Las Vegas, Nevada

Lola’s A Louisiana Kitchen on West Charleston in Las Vegas has been bringing authentic Cajun and Creole cooking to a city that desperately needed it since it opened, serving the gumbo, étouffée, and po-boys that the New Orleans table is built around with the kind of from-scratch authenticity that earns a Las Vegas neighborhood restaurant

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UNLV Campus Dining – Las Vegas, Nevada

UNLV Campus Dining appeared in Season 14, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Vegas, All the Time,” which aired June 4, 2012, as a featured stop on Guy Fieri’s all-Las Vegas episode — a college cafeteria operation that earned its segment by doing scratch-made comfort food at a level that most university dining

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