Broadway Diner on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore is one of those diners that announces itself before you get close: a large chrome building sitting up on a small hill, glimmering with neon and rounded corners like a monument to the American diner era. The interior is just as large, with two separate dining rooms and […]
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American, Baltimore, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 4Town Talk Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as one of the viewer-nominated stops in an episode driven entirely by fan recommendations. The diner occupied a building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis that had housed a bar since
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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Stretch is a sculptor. He opened his studio in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District in 1992, improvised a bar from an I-beam for a handful of friends, and spent the next twelve years building a community before the first Grinders restaurant was born. The inspiration was simple: he missed Philadelphia cheesesteaks and New York-style pizza
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Kansas City, Missouri, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 2Pete and Jenny Breen moved to New Orleans and took to BBQ the way transplants to the city tend to take to whatever they fall in love with: completely. They opened The Joint in 2004 on Poland Avenue in the Bywater District and built a reputation that put them on Bon Appétit and Zagat top
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Barbecue, Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Season 3Benny’s Seafood Restaurant appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,” which aired June 30, 2008, as a family-run South Miami seafood operation serving fresh South Florida seafood in the tradition of the city’s immigrant fishing communities. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Benny’s Seafood RestaurantCity:
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Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 3Joe Morozin launched his first diner in 1940 at age 16. Over the next two decades he opened and closed more than a dozen restaurants before landing in Northeast Philadelphia in 1960, where he opened the Torresdale Diner at 8828 Frankford Avenue. The name changed to The Dining Car in 1976, and a fire destroyed
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Diner, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 2In 1987, Gus Glava gave his daughter Donna and son-in-law Bob a pit beef stand as a wedding gift. It was a 12-by-15-foot shack in a parking lot on the east side of Baltimore, and Bob loved to cook, so the logic held. What Gus could not have predicted is that the wedding gift would
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Baltimore, Barbecue, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 3Monte Carlo Steak House sits on Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, which means it sits on Historic Route 66 in a city that has been a crossroads stop for travelers since the highway was commissioned. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution serving steaks and burgers to a loyal local following for decades, built on
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Albuquerque, Burgers, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3, SteakhouseMarlowe’s Ribs sits on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, which means it occupies a stretch of road that carries the weight of the city’s most famous son. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution for years, serving Memphis-style ribs and BBQ to locals and the Graceland tourist crowd alike, with the quality earning a loyal
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeDeWese’s Tip Top Café has been on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio since 1938, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the city. The official name is DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe, though it is widely known simply as the Tip Top. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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