In 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahCrystal Restaurant on Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh appeared in Season 4, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Taste of Everywhere,” which aired September 15, 2008, as a Lebanese and Mediterranean kitchen bringing authentic Middle Eastern cooking to Pittsburgh’s downtown dining scene. Also listed as Crystal on Penn, the restaurant earned its DDD
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Mediterranean, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4Cheryl Chin was raised in Kingston, Jamaica with four siblings and a father who told them all they were going to America and all going to college. She came in 1980 and has been running Jamaica Kitchen since 1986, having taken over from the family that started it. The restaurant opened in 1980 as a
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 4Bryant-Lake Bowl on West Lake Street in Minneapolis is a bowling alley, a theater, and a restaurant, all operating under one roof since 1993, and the combination works better than it has any right to. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008, as
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American, Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Otto’s Sausage Kitchen and Meat Market on SE Woodstock Boulevard in Portland has been making sausages the German way — house-ground meat, traditional spicing, natural casings, smoked over real wood — since the Eichentopf family opened it in 1936. Four generations later the family operation is still running, still making the same bratwurst, knockwurst, and
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6Lake Effect Diner on Main Street in Buffalo has been one of the city’s favorite breakfast and comfort food stops since it opened, named after the weather phenomenon that defines western New York winters and serving the kind of hearty scratch-made diner food that Buffalo winters demand. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 13 of
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Comfort Food, Diner, New York, Restaurants, Season 7Roberto’s Mexican Food appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as an authentic Mexican restaurant in the Anthem area north of Phoenix serving the kind of homemade, scratch-made Mexican food that earned a DDD segment. The operation has since rebranded as Tortas
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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In on West State Street in Boise has been a drive-in institution in the Treasure Valley since it opened, serving the Idaho specialty of finger steaks — beef strips battered and deep-fried, invented in Boise in the 1950s — alongside classic American drive-in burgers and the kind of comfort food menu that
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Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6Sweetie Pie’s was a St. Louis soul food institution founded by Miss Robbie Montgomery, a former Ikettes backup singer who turned to cooking after an asthma diagnosis ended her performing career. The Manchester Avenue location appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 —
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Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, St. LouisArleta Library Bakery and Cafe on SE 72nd at Harold in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood takes its name from the Arleta School building that once occupied the site — a neighborhood institution repurposed into a bakery and cafe that functions as a neighborhood institution of a different kind. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of
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