Al’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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Italian, New York, Restaurants, Season 9Bro’s Cajun Cuisine appeared in Season 10, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Timeless,” which aired September 13, 2010, as a Nashville Cajun restaurant bringing the bold flavors of Louisiana cooking — crawfish étouffée, gumbo, jambalaya — to a city better known for its country music and hot chicken than for Gulf Coast cuisine.
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Nashville, Restaurants, Season 10, Southern, TennesseeTune Inn Restaurant and Bar on Pennsylvania Avenue SE has been a Capitol Hill institution since it opened in 1947, serving burgers, bar food, and cold beer to the staffers, lobbyists, journalists, and neighborhood regulars who make up the Capitol Hill community. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Tried
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Burgers, Gastropub, Restaurants, Season 10, Washington DCHappy Gillis Cafe and Hangout appeared in Season 10, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Joints,” which aired August 30, 2010, as a Kansas City Columbus Park neighborhood cafe serving scratch-made American breakfast and lunch in a community-focused setting that earned its loyal following one thoughtfully prepared plate at a time. The restaurant
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American, Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 10Wasyl and Anna Kramarczuk fled Ukraine during World War II, settled in Minneapolis’s Northeast neighborhood, and in 1954 opened a Ukrainian and Eastern European delicatessen and sausage shop that has been a Minneapolis institution ever since. Three generations of the family have run it across seven decades, maintaining the house-made sausage program — kielbasa, bratwurst,
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Southern Soul Barbeque on Demere Road in St. Simons Island has been serving low-country Georgia BBQ since Griffin Bufkin and his partners opened it in 2007, smoking meats over local hardwood and bringing the whole hog tradition of the Carolina and Georgia coasts to the Golden Isles. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 13 of
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Barbecue, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 9Jack Arnold started his restaurant career as a dishwasher at age 12. He studied art at Vanderbilt University, managed the campus cafeteria, and in 1982 purchased a concrete block building on 8th Avenue South in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood, installed a steam table and a tray line, and named it Arnold’s Country Kitchen. His son Kahlil
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Nashville, Restaurants, Season 9, TennesseeAthens Family Restaurant on Franklin Pike in Nashville has been serving Greek-American diner food to the city since the Sarris family opened it, combining the Greek immigrant diner tradition — gyros, moussaka, and spanakopita sitting comfortably alongside eggs, pancakes, and burgers — with the kind of from-scratch approach that earns a Nashville neighborhood its loyal
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Greek, Nashville, Restaurants, Season 9, TennesseeSwagger Fine Spirits and Food appeared in Season 9, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers ‘n More,” which aired July 19, 2010, as a Kansas City bar and kitchen building creative, upscale burgers and pub food in a craft spirits setting that went well beyond standard bar fare. The restaurant has since permanently
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