Moochie’s Meatballs and More on East 800 South in Salt Lake City built its reputation on bringing serious Philadelphia-style cheesesteaks and meatball subs to a city that had very little access to either. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Grabbin’ a Sandwich,” which aired October 13, 2008, and Guy […]
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Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahBig 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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Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4Casamento’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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Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 4Nadine’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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American, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4Victor’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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Carribean, Cuban, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4BOP 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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Baltimore, Maryland, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 4Amato’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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Italian, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4Frank Tarleton opened The Colonnade in 1927 in a white-columned house at the corner of Lindbergh Drive and Piedmont Road in Atlanta, serving Southern comfort food to a city that knew exactly what it wanted from a neighborhood restaurant. In 1962 the operation moved to its current location on Cheshire Bridge Road NE, where it
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American, Atlanta, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 4, SouthernIn 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahCrystal Restaurant on Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh appeared in Season 4, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Taste of Everywhere,” which aired September 15, 2008, as a Lebanese and Mediterranean kitchen bringing authentic Middle Eastern cooking to Pittsburgh’s downtown dining scene. Also listed as Crystal on Penn, the restaurant earned its DDD
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