In 1922 Leonard Heuberger traded a Model T Ford for a 7-stool sandwich stand in South Memphis and started selling chopped pork sandwiches for five cents. That modest beginning grew into what became, by the 1940s and 1950s, the world’s largest barbecue drive-in restaurant, with 20 car-hops working the canopied lot serving a daily parade
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeLittle Tea Shop appeared in Season 3, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Classics,” aired May 12, 2008 — as a Memphis downtown lunch institution serving Southern soul food the way it was meant to be served: scratch-made, generous, and deeply rooted in the regional cooking tradition that makes Memphis food culture
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Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, TennesseeThe 11th Street Diner started its life in 1948 when the Paramount Dining Car Company of Haledon, New Jersey built an Art Deco aluminum-sided diner and shipped it to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It operated there for 44 years before being dismantled, transported to Miami Beach, and reassembled in the heart of the South Beach Art Deco
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Diner, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Scully’s Tavern appeared in Season 3, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Something Different,” aired April 14, 2008 — as a Miami pub and bar kitchen serving food well above the standard tavern fare. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Scully’s TavernCity: Miami, FloridaCuisine: Pub / Bar FoodDDD Season: 3DDD
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Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3YJ’s Snack Bar appeared in Season 3, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “A World of Flavors,” aired April 7, 2008 — as an eclectic, Latin-influenced Kansas City dive bar kitchen serving creative food well outside the standard bar menu. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: YJ’s Snack BarCity: Kansas
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Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3In November 1990, Frank and Eve Collins opened a 1,000-square-foot restaurant in north Phoenix with seating for 16 and a menu that blended Chinese cooking, Mexican cooking, and Jamaican cooking into something that had no name and no precedent. Eve’s Chinese heritage and their shared Arizona roots were the starting point. The result was Chino
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Arizona, Chinese, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3White Palace Grill has been open every single day since 1939. Not most days. Every day. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, around the clock, for going on 87 years. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Open 24/7,” aired January 13, 2008 — and Guy Fieri found
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Chicago, Diner, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2Ten feet wide. Fourteen stools. A line out the door most mornings. Al’s Breakfast in Minneapolis, Minnesota has been doing more with less space than almost any restaurant in America since 1950, and it has the reputation to prove it. It appeared in Season 1, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Cookin’,”
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Breakfast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 1Voula’s Offshore Cafe in Seattle, Washington brought a different kind of breakfast stop to Season 1, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. In an episode called House Specials, this one had the kind of charm the show has always loved: a local cafe, a little personality on the plate, and a menu that leans
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