El Bohio appeared in Season 12, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Global Comfort,” which aired October 24, 2011, as a San Antonio Puerto Rican restaurant serving the comfort food of the island — mofongo, pernil, pasteles, and the slow-cooked Caribbean dishes that are genuinely difficult to find in Texas. The restaurant has since
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Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasBig and Little’s appeared in Season 12, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pizza, Pancakes and Pork,” which aired November 7, 2011, as a Chicago River North fast-casual operation building creative seafood sandwiches and hot dogs with the kind of from-scratch quality and bold flavor combinations that earned a cult following in a city
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 12DMK Burger Bar on North Sheffield Avenue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated burger destinations since David Morton and Michael Kornick opened it in 2009, building a menu around quality sourcing, creative toppings, and the kind of elevated bar burger that treats the format with the seriousness it deserves.
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Burgers, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Taco Taco Cafe on East Hildebrand Avenue in San Antonio has been serving the breakfast taco that defines the city’s morning food culture since it opened — fresh tortillas, house-made fillings, and the kind of from-scratch Mexican breakfast that San Antonio does better than anywhere else in the country. It appeared in Season 12, Episode
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Mexican, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasTortilleria Nixtamal on 47th Avenue in Corona, Queens has been doing something almost nobody else in New York City does — making tortillas the traditional way, from nixtamalized corn masa ground in house, rather than from commercial masa flour. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Latin Street Food,” which
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New York, Restaurants, Season 12Beto’s Comida Latina appeared in Season 12, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Latin Street Food,” which aired October 10, 2011, as a San Antonio Latin and Puerto Rican restaurant serving the Caribbean island cooking traditions that are genuinely rare in Texas — mofongo, pernil, and the comfort food of the Puerto Rican table
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Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasIrazu on North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood has been the city’s only Costa Rican restaurant since it opened in 1991, serving the casados, gallo pinto, and the home cooking of Central America that Chicago’s Costa Rican community and the curious eaters who found Irazu have been coming back for over 30 years.
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Chilam Balam on North Broadway in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated Mexican restaurants since chef Rodrigo Monterrey opened it, building a menu around authentic regional Mexican cooking that goes well beyond the Tex-Mex and generic Mexican-American cuisine that most Chicago neighborhoods had access to. It appeared in Season 12,
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Tampa Bay Brewing Company on East 8th Avenue in Ybor City has been one of Tampa’s anchor craft breweries since it opened, combining a serious brewing program with a scratch-made pub food kitchen in the historic Latin Quarter neighborhood that built Tampa’s identity. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Florida, Gastropub, Restaurants, Season 12, TampaMemphis Taproom appeared in Season 11, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pub, Grub and More,” which aired January 3, 2011, as a Philadelphia Kensington neighborhood gastropub serving creative scratch-made bar food and a serious craft beer selection in a neighborhood that was in the early stages of what would become a significant restaurant
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