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Roberto’s Mexican Food (Tortas Chano) – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

Roberto’s Mexican Food appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as an authentic Mexican restaurant in the Anthem area north of Phoenix serving the kind of homemade, scratch-made Mexican food that earned a DDD segment. The operation has since rebranded as Tortas […]

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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In – Boise, Idaho

Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6

Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In on West State Street in Boise has been a drive-in institution in the Treasure Valley since it opened, serving the Idaho specialty of finger steaks — beef strips battered and deep-fried, invented in Boise in the 1950s — alongside classic American drive-in burgers and the kind of comfort food menu that

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Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6

Sweetie Pie’s – St. Louis, Missouri – Closed

Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, St. Louis

Sweetie Pie’s was a St. Louis soul food institution founded by Miss Robbie Montgomery, a former Ikettes backup singer who turned to cooking after an asthma diagnosis ended her performing career. The Manchester Avenue location appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 —

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Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, St. Louis

Arleta Library Bakery & Cafe – Portland, Oregon

Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

Arleta Library Bakery and Cafe on SE 72nd at Harold in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood takes its name from the Arleta School building that once occupied the site — a neighborhood institution repurposed into a bakery and cafe that functions as a neighborhood institution of a different kind. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of

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Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

Twisted Root Burger Co. – Dallas, Texas

Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Twisted Root Burger Co. opened in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood in 2006, built around the same creative burger philosophy that Kuma’s Corner was developing simultaneously in Chicago: take a serious 10-ounce beef patty and build something unexpected on top of it. At Twisted Root the wildcard is game meat — venison, elk, bison, wild boar,

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Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Slim’s Last Chance Chili Shack & Watering Hole – Seattle, Washington

Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 6, Seattle, Washington

Slim’s Last Chance Chili Shack and Watering Hole on First Avenue South in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood has been serving house-made chili, BBQ, and the kind of unpretentious bar food that earns a neighborhood reputation well before any camera shows up. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Burger, a

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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 6, Seattle, Washington

Matt’s Big Breakfast – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

In late October 2004, Matt Pool opened an 800-square-foot red brick restaurant on a quiet corner in downtown Phoenix. He had no advertising budget and a menu built around one conviction: food tastes better when prepared simply with better ingredients. Within a few years the lines were stretching out the door every day. It appeared

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Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

Cafe Rolle – Sacramento, California – Closed

Califonia, French, Restaurants, Sacramento, Sandwiches, Season 6

Cafe Rolle appeared in Season 6, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Bit of Everywhere,” which aired April 20, 2009, as a Sacramento French sandwich and cafe operation bringing classic French preparations — fresh baguettes, charcuterie, and the kind of simple, quality-first French deli cooking that is exceedingly rare outside major metropolitan

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Califonia, French, Restaurants, Sacramento, Sandwiches, Season 6

Kuma’s Corner – Chicago, Illinois

Burgers, Chicago, Gastropub, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 6

Luke Tobias opened Kuma’s Corner in 2005 at the corner of Belmont and Francisco in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, intending to run a craft beer bar with heavy metal on the sound system. The burgers caught on faster than the beer list. Almost every burger on the menu is named after a heavy metal or hard

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Burgers, Chicago, Gastropub, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 6
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