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Benny’s Seafood Restaurant – South Miami, Florida – Closed

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Benny’s Seafood Restaurant appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,” which aired June 30, 2008, as a family-run South Miami seafood operation serving fresh South Florida seafood in the tradition of the city’s immigrant fishing communities. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Benny’s Seafood RestaurantCity:

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The Dining Car – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Joe Morozin launched his first diner in 1940 at age 16. Over the next two decades he opened and closed more than a dozen restaurants before landing in Northeast Philadelphia in 1960, where he opened the Torresdale Diner at 8828 Frankford Avenue. The name changed to The Dining Car in 1976, and a fire destroyed

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Monte Carlo Steak House – Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Monte Carlo Steak House sits on Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, which means it sits on Historic Route 66 in a city that has been a crossroads stop for travelers since the highway was commissioned. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution serving steaks and burgers to a loyal local following for decades, built on

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Marlowe’s Ribs – Memphis, Tennessee

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Marlowe’s Ribs sits on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, which means it occupies a stretch of road that carries the weight of the city’s most famous son. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution for years, serving Memphis-style ribs and BBQ to locals and the Graceland tourist crowd alike, with the quality earning a loyal

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DeWese’s Tip Top Café – San Antonio, Texas

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DeWese’s Tip Top Café has been on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio since 1938, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the city. The official name is DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe, though it is widely known simply as the Tip Top. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and

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Blue Moon Café – Baltimore, Maryland

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Sarah Simington grew up watching her mother Sherri work the diner counter, which gave her both the love of breakfast food and the knowledge of how to execute it properly. In 1996 the two of them opened the Blue Moon Café in Baltimore’s historic Fells Point neighborhood, and Sarah’s rock and roll personality went into

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Cozy Corner – Memphis, Tennessee

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Ray Robinson opened Cozy Corner in Memphis in 1977 after years of perfecting his BBQ recipes at home in Colorado, where he and his wife Desiree had moved from Memphis before eventually returning. The Cornish game hen was on the menu from the beginning because, as Desiree explains it simply, “We liked it.” Cozy Corner

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Tom’s Bar-B-Q – Memphis, Tennessee

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Tom’s Bar-B-Q has been feeding Memphis from its New Getwell Road location for decades, operating as a classic neighborhood pit stop where the regulars know exactly what they’re getting and first-timers figure it out quickly. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “The Memphis BBQ Tour,” which aired May 26,

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