Gazala’s Place on 9th Avenue in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood has been serving the food of the Druze people — an Arabic-speaking minority community with roots in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel whose cooking tradition is distinct from the broader Middle Eastern cuisines most New Yorkers are familiar with — since Gazala Halabi opened it, building
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Middle Eastern, New York, Restaurants, Season 14Noble Pig Sandwiches appeared in Season 14, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Serious Sandwiches,” which aired June 11, 2012, as an Austin sandwich operation building creative scratch-made sandwiches with house-cured meats, house-baked bread, and the kind of from-scratch commitment that earned it a devoted following in a city with an increasingly competitive sandwich
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Austin, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 14, TexasLola’s A Louisiana Kitchen on West Charleston in Las Vegas has been bringing authentic Cajun and Creole cooking to a city that desperately needed it since it opened, serving the gumbo, étouffée, and po-boys that the New Orleans table is built around with the kind of from-scratch authenticity that earns a Las Vegas neighborhood restaurant
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Las Vegas, Louisiana, Nevada, Restaurants, Season 14UNLV Campus Dining appeared in Season 14, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Vegas, All the Time,” which aired June 4, 2012, as a featured stop on Guy Fieri’s all-Las Vegas episode — a college cafeteria operation that earned its segment by doing scratch-made comfort food at a level that most university dining
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American, Las Vegas, Nevada, Restaurants, Season 14Forte European Tapas Bar and Bistro appeared in Season 14, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Vegas, All the Time,” which aired June 4, 2012, as a Las Vegas European tapas and bistro operation serving the small-plate Mediterranean and Eastern European traditions that earned it a destination reputation in a city where most
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Las Vegas, Nevada, Restaurants, Season 14Naked City Pizza has been bringing Buffalo-style pizza and the bar comfort food of upstate New York to Las Vegas since it opened, building a menu around the thick-rimmed, sauce-heavy Buffalo pizza tradition that is genuinely rare outside of western New York and completely unexpected in a desert city built on buffets and celebrity chef
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Las Vegas, Nevada, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 14John Mull’s Meats and Road Kill Grill on Thom Boulevard in Las Vegas’s northwest suburbs has been a butcher shop and BBQ operation since John Mull opened it, combining a working meat counter producing house-made sausages and custom cuts with a BBQ grill serving the smoked meats and grilled plates that earn a neighborhood butcher
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Barbecue, Las Vegas, Nevada, Restaurants, Season 14Pecan Lodge on South Pearl Expressway in Dallas’s Farmers Market district has been one of the most celebrated BBQ destinations in Texas since Justin and Diane Fourton opened it in 2010, smoking brisket, ribs, and sausage with the low-and-slow commitment and quality sourcing that earns a Dallas BBQ operation its national reputation in a state
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Barbecue, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 14, TexasCounter Cafe on North Lamar in Austin has been a city breakfast and lunch institution since it opened, serving the kind of scratch-made diner classics and cafe plates that earn an Austin neighborhood restaurant its loyal following in a city where the breakfast scene is one of the most competitive in the country. It appeared
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Austin, Restaurants, Season 14, TexasMarla’s Caribbean Cuisine appeared in Season 14, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Big Time Flavor,” which aired April 30, 2012, as a Minneapolis Caribbean restaurant serving the jerk chicken, oxtail, and the island comfort food traditions that are genuinely rare in a landlocked Minnesota city, earning a devoted following among the Twin Cities
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