Tecolote Café – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

Breakfast, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3

Tecolote Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Regional Favorites,” aired March 24, 2008 — as a Santa Fe breakfast institution serving New Mexican-style food that reflected the deep culinary traditions of the region: green and red chile, huevos rancheros, posole, and the kind of morning cooking that defines […]

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Big Mama’s Kitchen & Catering – Omaha, Nebraska

Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4

Big Mama’s Kitchen and Catering in Omaha was founded by Patricia Barron, known to everyone as Big Mama, and built around the soul food recipes she grew up cooking and the belief that food is how you take care of people. The restaurant appeared in Season 4, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Cookin’

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Casamento’s Restaurant – New Orleans, Louisiana

Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 4

Casamento’s Restaurant on Magazine Street in New Orleans has been one of the city’s beloved oyster houses since Joseph Casamento opened it in 1919, building a reputation on oysters served raw, fried, and in loaves on white bread that has endured for more than a century. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 10 of Diners,

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Nadine’s Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

American, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Nadine’s Restaurant in the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh has been a neighborhood bar and diner since 1977, serving the kind of honest American comfort food that earns 45-year reputations. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Cookin’ It Old School,” which aired October 6, 2008, as a Pittsburgh neighborhood

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Virginia Diner – Wakefield, Virginia

Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, Virginia

In 1929, Mrs. D’Earcy Davis served hot biscuits and vegetable soup to hungry customers from a refurbished Sussex, Surry, and Southampton Railroad car along a dusty highway in southeastern Virginia. That railroad car is now a legend. The Virginia Diner has been growing around it ever since — dining room after dining room added over

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Victor’s 1959 Cafe – Minneapolis, Minnesota

Carribean, Cuban, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Victor’s 1959 Cafe on Grand Avenue in Minneapolis has been serving Cuban food to the Twin Cities since 1994, named for the year that holds so much significance in Cuban history. The restaurant brings the flavors of pre-revolution Cuba to a Minneapolis neighborhood restaurant in a way that has built a 30-year local following and

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BOP Brick Oven Pizza – Baltimore, Maryland – Closed

Baltimore, Maryland, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 4

BOP Brick Oven Pizza appeared in Season 4, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Big Flavor,” which aired September 29, 2008, as a Baltimore wood-fired pizza operation producing the kind of brick oven pizza that stands apart from the city’s standard pie offerings. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: BOP Brick

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Darwell’s Cafe – Long Beach, Mississippi

Mississippi, Restaurants, Season 4, Southern

Darwell’s Cafe in Long Beach, Mississippi has been serving the Gulf Coast since the 1990s, built around fresh local seafood and the Southern cooking traditions that define coastal Mississippi food culture. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Big Flavor,” which aired September 29, 2008, and Guy Fieri found a

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Amato’s – Omaha, Nebraska – Closed

Italian, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4

Amato’s in Omaha appeared in Season 4, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Better Than Ever,” which aired September 22, 2008, as an Omaha Italian restaurant and breakfast operation serving scratch-made Italian food with the kind of family recipe approach that earned a DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:

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Charlie Parker’s Diner – Springfield, Illinois

American, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 3

The building that houses Charlie Parker’s Diner is a genuine World War II-era Quonset hut — a curved steel prefabricated military structure converted into one of Springfield’s most beloved breakfast and lunch spots. The diner has occupied the same 700 North Street address since 1991, when it was opened under the current name. Mike and

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