Mama E’s Wings and Waffles in Oklahoma City does exactly what the name says and does it better than it has any right to in a city most people wouldn’t associate with standout soul food. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Mama’s Cookin’,” which aired July 27, 2009. Guy
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Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 6Avila’s Mexican Restaurant on Maple Avenue in Dallas has been a neighborhood institution serving family-recipe Mexican food since the Avila family opened it, building a multi-generational following around enchiladas, tamales, and the kind of from-scratch Tex-Mex and interior Mexican cooking that earns decades of loyalty. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Dallas, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasPolka Restaurant on Verdugo Road in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles has been serving authentic Polish home cooking to a city that doesn’t see much of it since it opened, building a following around pierogi, bigos, and the kind of Eastern European comfort food that earns loyal regulars fast. It appeared in Season
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 6Comet Cafe on North Farwell Avenue in Milwaukee’s East Side neighborhood has been a neighborhood comfort food institution since it opened, serving the kind of scratch-made diner food — mac and cheese, meatloaf, chicken pot pie, and the kind of American comfort classics that the East Side’s mix of students, artists, and longtime Milwaukee residents
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Comfort Food, Diner, Milwaukee, Restaurants, Season 6, WisconsinOver Easy on East Indian School Road in Phoenix has been one of the city’s go-to breakfast and brunch destinations since it opened, building a loyal following around creative morning plates that go well beyond the standard Phoenix breakfast menu. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Cookin’,” which
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Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 6Dottie’s True Blue Cafe appeared in Season 6, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Cookin’,” which aired June 29, 2009, as a San Francisco breakfast institution on 6th Street in SoMa that had built a multi-decade reputation around creative scratch-made breakfast plates, housemade jams, and the kind of generous, quality-first morning food that
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6The Garcia brothers founded La Camaronera on West Flagler Street in Miami’s Little Havana in the 1960s — a Cuban family-run fish market and restaurant serving the seafood of their heritage the way Cuban fishermen have always prepared it: fresh, battered, and fried in the tradition that makes the simplest preparations the most satisfying. La
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Cuban, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 6Donn’s Hilltop Kodiak Grill on East Highway 21 southeast of Boise sits at the Hilltop Station, a roadside stop in the Boise foothills that combines a gas station, a convenience store, and a restaurant in the kind of unlikely combination that Triple D was built to find. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 11 of
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American, Boise, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6Blueplate Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain appeared in Season 6, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Old Time Favorites,” which aired June 22, 2009, as a Portland downtown diner and soda fountain operating in the classic American lunch counter tradition — counter seating, egg creams, old-fashioned soda fountain drinks, and the diner food that
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6Rocco’s Cafe on Folsom Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood has been serving Italian-American breakfast and lunch to the city since it opened, built around the kind of straightforward, generous, scratch-made food that earns a neighborhood diner its regulars one plate at a time. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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