Salsa Brava on East Route 66 in Flagstaff has been serving Mexican and Southwestern food to the high desert college town and the Route 66 travelers passing through since 1989, building a menu around fresh ingredients, house-made salsas, and the green chile that defines Northern Arizona cooking. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 9 of […]
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Arizona, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 5In 1938, two local farm women walked into Irv Kolarik’s gas station lunch counter on Route 66 in what was then rural Hinsdale, Illinois and overheard him complaining about running a gas station when he’d rather be running a restaurant. They offered him their secret fried chicken recipe in exchange for a steady supply contract
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Illinois, Restaurants, Season 5Standard Diner occupies a 1938 Texaco service station on Central Avenue SE in Albuquerque — which means it occupies a stretch of Historic Route 66 in a building that has its own National Register of Historic Places potential. The restoration converted the gas station into a full-service diner without erasing the Art Deco bones of
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American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Sara and Tommy Haygood opened The Silver Skillet in 1956 in Midtown Atlanta when 14th Street was a very different road than the skyscraper corridor it became. Jimmy Collins — the same man who helped design the original Dwarf Houses that became Chick-fil-A — transformed the building into its current Mid-Century diner appearance. George and
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Atlanta, Breakfast, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 5, SouthernTufano’s Vernon Park Tap has been on West Vernon Park Place in Chicago’s University Village neighborhood since 1930, which makes it one of the oldest Italian-American restaurants in the city. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Just Like Yesterday,” which aired January 26, 2009. Guy Fieri found a multigenerational
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 5Harold and Dorothy Hoersch opened a 14-stool lunch counter called the Juniper Café on a corner in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood in May 1944. Dorothy had previously worked as a secretary at Consolidated Aircraft and had no restaurant experience. Within two years the café had outgrown its space and moved to 2271 First Avenue,
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American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5Tune-Up Cafe on Hickox Street in Santa Fe has been combining the cooking traditions of El Salvador and New Mexico in a small neighborhood restaurant that earns regulars who come back weekly and visitors who plan their Santa Fe trips around a table there. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Blow Fly Inn on Washington Avenue in Gulfport has been a Mississippi Gulf Coast seafood and Southern food institution since the 1940s, surviving hurricanes, ownership changes, and decades of competition to remain one of the most authentic dining experiences on the coast. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Neighborhood
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Mississippi, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 5, SouthernPat’s BBQ on West Commonwealth Avenue in Salt Lake City has been making a case that Utah deserves a serious BBQ reputation since Pat Hughes opened it with a conviction that low-and-slow smoked meat is not a regional specialty but a universal truth. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, UtahEmily’s Lebanese Deli on University Avenue NE in Minneapolis has been serving Lebanese home cooking to the Twin Cities since 1980, built around the recipes that owner Emily Kalil brought from her family’s Lebanese tradition and served in a straightforward deli setting that prioritizes the food over the atmosphere. It appeared in Season 5, Episode
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