Bun ‘N’ Barrel on Austin Highway in San Antonio has been a city institution since it opened in 1950, serving the kind of honest Texas burgers and BBQ that earns a neighborhood restaurant its multigenerational loyal following. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Grillin’ and Smokin’,” which aired September
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Barbecue, Burgers, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasGarifuna Flava on West 63rd Street in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood has been serving the food of the Garifuna people — an Afro-Indigenous Caribbean culture centered in Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala — to Chicago’s Belizean community and the curious eaters who discovered it since it opened. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 3 of Diners,
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Carribean, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 1210th Avenue Burrito on Belmar Plaza has been feeding the Jersey Shore community since it opened, building a following around overstuffed burritos, fresh salsas, and the kind of straightforward quality Mexican food that a beach town embraces when it can find the real thing. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Mexican, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 10Duluth Grill on South 27th Avenue West has been one of Duluth’s most beloved comfort food restaurants since Tom and Jaima Hanson took it over and rebuilt it around a commitment to local sourcing and scratch cooking that went far beyond what the building’s previous lives as a fast food restaurant suggested was possible. It
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American, Comfort Food, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Metro 29 Diner on Lee Highway in Arlington has been a Northern Virginia breakfast institution since it opened, serving the kind of generous, scratch-made diner food that earns a suburban community its go-to morning restaurant. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Sweet ‘n Savory,” which aired November 26, 2010.
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Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 10, VirginiaMeal Ticket appeared in Season 10, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Sweet ‘n Savory,” which aired November 26, 2010, as a Berkeley American restaurant building a creative comfort food menu around pork and seasonal local ingredients in the tradition of the Bay Area’s farm-to-table movement. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 10The Sink on 13th Street in Boulder has been a University of Colorado institution since 1923, feeding students, faculty, and the Boulder community in a basement-level pub whose walls are covered in decades of accumulated art, signatures, graffiti, and the visual history of a college bar that has outlasted every trend around it. It appeared
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Colorado, Restaurants, Season 12Jose’s Real Cuban Food appeared in Season 12, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Southern Flavor,” which aired September 19, 2011, as a Bradenton Cuban restaurant serving the authentic dishes of the Cuban table — ropa vieja, lechon asado, black beans and rice, and the pressed cubano sandwiches that the Florida Cuban community does
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Carribean, Cuban, Florida, Restaurants, Season 12Bang! appeared in Season 12, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Southern Flavor,” which aired September 19, 2011, as a Denver American comfort food restaurant building a creative scratch-made menu in the West Highland neighborhood that earned its DDD segment through quality and personality in equal measure. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick
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American, Colorado, Comfort Food, Denver, Restaurants, Season 12Sammy’s Food Service and Deli on Elysian Fields Avenue has been a New Orleans neighborhood institution since the Gendusa family opened it, serving the po-boys, plate lunches, and Southern deli food that keep a Mid-City community fed on a daily basis rather than on a tourist’s schedule. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 10 of
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