Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington D.C.’s Cleveland Park neighborhood has been a neighborhood pizza and bar institution since James Alefantis opened it in 2006, serving wood-fired pizza, bar food, and the kind of unpretentious neighborhood restaurant experience that earns a political city’s off-duty crowd. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 9
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Pizza, Restaurants, Season 9, Washington DCBlackwater Grill appeared in Season 9, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Farm to Table,” which aired June 28, 2010, as a St. Simons Island, Georgia seafood and Southern restaurant building a menu around the coastal Georgia ingredients — fresh shrimp, local fish, and the farm-to-table Southern cooking that the Golden Isles region produces
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Georgia, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 9, SouthernSeiju Ifuku was born in Okinawa, joined the US Army, learned to cook while serving with the 100th Battalion through campaigns in Italy and France during World War II, and eventually settled in Hawaii. In 1961 he and his wife Ayako opened Rainbow Drive-In in Kapahulu, a small neighborhood at the edge of Waikiki, serving
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Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Season 9Don Chow Tacos was a Los Angeles food truck serving Chinese-Mexican fusion — a combination that made perfect sense in a city where both culinary traditions have deep roots and a food truck culture willing to smash them together. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Fast Food Their Way,”
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 9Grover’s Bar and Grill on Transit Road in East Amherst has been the kind of Buffalo-area neighborhood pub that earns its reputation quietly — great burgers, cold beer, and the kind of no-frills bar food that keeps a suburban community coming back for years. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Burgers, Gastropub, New York, Restaurants, Season 7Blue Ash Chili on Kenwood Road has been serving Cincinnati-style chili since 1969, which means it has been serving a style of chili that most of the country doesn’t recognize as chili — Greek-spiced, cinnamon-forward, served over spaghetti or as a coney dog — for over 50 years. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 7
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Cincinnati, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 9Jake’s Good Eats appeared in Season 9, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Grilled, Smoked and Sauced,” which aired May 31, 2010, as a Charlotte Southern comfort food restaurant serving scratch-made American and Southern food with the kind of neighborhood restaurant warmth that makes a community gathering place out of a dining room. The
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American, Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 9Terry’s Turf Club on Eastern Avenue in Cincinnati is impossible to miss — the exterior is covered in neon signs, the interior is louder, and the burgers are the reason people line up outside a building that seats only a handful of people at a time. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 6 of Diners,
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Burgers, Cincinnati, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 9Murphy’s Bar and Grill on Merchant Street in downtown Honolulu has been the city’s Irish pub since Don Murphy opened it in 1987, serving the classic Irish-American pub food alongside the kind of comfort food menu that makes Murphy’s the place downtown Honolulu workers end up after work and tourists end up when they venture
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Comfort Food, Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Season 9Rob Crenshaw spent time surfing the California coast and fell in love with the Baja-style fish tacos he found at taco stands near the water — the kind of fresh, simple, California-Mexico border cooking that doesn’t exist in Charlotte. So in 2001 he brought it there himself. Cabo Fish Taco on North Davidson Street in
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