Becky’s Diner on Commercial Street in Portland has been a waterfront institution since Becky Rand opened it in 1991, serving the fishing community, the dock workers, the lobstermen, and everyone else who needs real food at 4:00 AM on a cold Maine morning. The diner opens at 4:00 AM seven days a week — not
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Maine, Portland, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 10Savarino’s Cucina appeared in Season 10, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Gone Global,” which aired November 8, 2010, as a Nashville Italian sandwich and cafe operation building house-made Italian food in the Hillsboro Village neighborhood with a from-scratch commitment that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:
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Italian, Nashville, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 10, TennesseePorthole Restaurant and Pub on Custom House Wharf in Portland sits on one of the few working waterfront piers left in the Old Port, with views of Casco Bay and the working boats that still come in and out of one of New England’s most active fishing ports. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 8
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Maine, Portland, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 10Good Dog Bar and Restaurant on South 15th Street in Philadelphia’s Center City has been one of the city’s most beloved bar kitchens since it opened, building a reputation around the Good Dog Burger — a beef patty stuffed with Roquefort cheese, sealed inside, and cooked until the cheese melts into the meat from within.
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Burgers, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 10Chaps Coffee Co on South Cheney-Spokane Road has been a Spokane area breakfast destination since it opened, building a menu around locally sourced ingredients and the kind of farm-driven scratch cooking that makes a breakfast cafe into a reason to drive across the city. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 10, Spokane, WashingtonRino’s Place on Saratoga Street in Boston’s East Boston neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated Italian restaurants since Rino Covino opened it, building a reputation around house-made pasta and the kind of red-sauce Italian cooking that East Boston’s Italian-American community has kept alive through generations of change in the neighborhood. It appeared
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Boston, Italian, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 10Oohh’s and Aahh’s on U Street NW has been serving soul food in one of Washington D.C.’s most historically significant corridors since Oji and Ayo Abbott opened it, building a menu around the Southern comfort food traditions that the U Street community has always known. The neighborhood — once known as Black Broadway for its
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Restaurants, Season 10, Washington DCThe Brick on McGee Street in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District has been a neighborhood pub and live music venue since it opened, combining a serious bar food kitchen with one of the city’s best small music stages in a setting that earns loyalty from both the foodie crowd and the live music crowd simultaneously.
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Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 10Al’s Breakfast on 14th Avenue SE in Minneapolis’s Dinkytown neighborhood has been open since 1950, operating in a space so narrow — 10 feet wide, 14 stools, no room for anything extra — that it has become as famous for its dimensions as for its pancakes. There is no room to wait inside. The line
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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Mulberry Italian Ristorante on Jackson Avenue in Lackawanna has been serving scratch-made Italian-American food to the Buffalo area since it opened, building a following around house-made pasta, braised meats, and the kind of red-sauce Italian cooking that earns a neighborhood restaurant its regulars one slow-cooked dish at a time. It appeared in Season 9, Episode
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