Gloria’s Cafe on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles has been serving authentic Salvadoran and Latin food since Gloria opened it, building a loyal following around pupusas, tamales, and the home cooking of El Salvador that is rare even in Los Angeles’s expansive Latin food landscape. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 9Hank’s Haute Dogs appeared in Season 8, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Triple D Goes Hawaiian,” which aired April 5, 2010, as a Honolulu hot dog operation run by Henry “Hank” Adaniya building specialty sausages with premium and unusual ingredients — foie gras, Kobe beef, alligator — into hot dogs that belonged nowhere
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Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Season 8Nicolas “Nico” Chaize is a classically trained French chef who opened Nico’s at Pier 38 next door to the Honolulu Fish Auction — the largest fresh tuna auction in the United States — which means his fish goes from the boat to the auction block to his kitchen in a matter of hours. It appeared
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Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 8Pier 23 Cafe sits on the Embarcadero waterfront at Pier 23, one of the oldest continuously operating restaurant locations on San Francisco Bay, with a history stretching back to the 1930s and a waterfront patio that makes it the right place to be on a sunny San Francisco afternoon. It appeared in Season 8, Episode
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Seafood, Season 8Jimmy’s Diner appeared in Season 16, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Savory Sensations,” which aired January 14, 2013, as a Williamsburg, Brooklyn retro diner serving classic American breakfast and diner food in a neighborhood that was in the middle of one of the most dramatic demographic and culinary transformations in New York City’s
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Breakfast, Brooklyn, New York, Restaurants, Season 16Tupelo appeared in Season 15, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “East Coast Comfort,” which aired September 24, 2012, as a Cambridge Southern comfort food restaurant bringing the fried chicken, biscuits, and slow-cooked Southern dishes to a New England college city with a perpetual appetite for quality comfort food done well. The restaurant has
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Boston, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 15Landmark Diner on Central Avenue in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood has been a neighborhood institution since it opened in 1976, combining Greek family recipes with classic American diner food in the way that Greek-American diner families across the country perfected throughout the 20th century. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Charlotte, Greek, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 8Earl’s Drive-In appeared in Season 8, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Twists and Traditions,” which aired March 22, 2010, as a rural western New York drive-in serving classic American drive-in comfort food to a community well off the beaten path in Chaffee. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Earl’s Drive-InCity:
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Comfort Food, New York, Restaurants, Season 8Momocho on Fulton Road in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated Mexican restaurants since Eric Williams opened it, building a menu around modern Mexican cuisine — house-made salsas, creative guacamoles prepared tableside, and the kind of upscale approach to Mexican food that challenges the Tex-Mex assumptions most Midwesterners carry.
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Cleveland, Mexican, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 8Dish on Thomas Avenue in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood has been one of the city’s most beloved Southern comfort food restaurants since it opened, building a menu around the kind of scratch-made Southern classics — chicken pot pie, shrimp and grits, pimento cheese — that earn a neighborhood restaurant its loyal following one plate at
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