Momocho 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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Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 8Sophia’s Restaurant on Military Road in Buffalo has been a neighborhood breakfast institution, serving the kind of generous, scratch-made morning food that earns the loyal regulars who show up at the same stool at the same time every week. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “And the Kicker Is…,”
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American, Breakfast, New York, Restaurants, Season 8The Red Lion on South Shepherd Drive has been Houston’s go-to British pub since it opened, serving fish and chips, bangers and mash, scotch eggs, and the full British pub food canon alongside a deep selection of imported ales and lagers in a setting that transplanted Brits and anglophile Houstonians have been calling home for
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Houston, Restaurants, Season 8, TexasThree Greek brothers — Sam, George, and Nick Copsis — immigrated to the United States and in 1955 opened a drive-in on South Boulevard in Charlotte small enough to hold a grill, a toaster, two deep fryers, and a drink station. The Independence Boulevard location, which opened in 1959, is the one that has been
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Burgers, Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 8Blackthorn Restaurant and Pub on Seneca Street in Buffalo’s South Buffalo neighborhood has been the kind of Irish-American pub and kitchen that the neighborhood was built around — cold beer, solid food, and the kind of community gathering place that keeps a working-class Buffalo neighborhood intact across generations. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 5
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New York, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 8Taste of Peru on North Clark Street in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood has been bringing authentic Peruvian cooking to the city since it opened, serving ceviche, lomo saltado, aji de gallina, and the full Peruvian coastal and highland food traditions in a setting that earns a devoted following from Chicago’s Latin American community and the
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 8Pizza Junction appeared in Season 8, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pizza, Pork and Paprikash,” which aired January 11, 2010, as a North Tonawanda pizza operation serving the Buffalo-area style of pizza that the Western New York pizza tradition has built its reputation on. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:
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New York, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 8Sterle’s Slovenian Country House appeared in Season 8, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pizza, Pork and Paprikash,” which aired January 11, 2010, as a Cleveland East Side institution serving Slovenian and Central European food in a setting that reflected the city’s deep Eastern European immigrant heritage — schnitzel, kielbasa, and the Old World
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Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 8Q Restaurant appeared in Season 8, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pizza, Pork and Paprikash,” which aired January 11, 2010, as a San Francisco Inner Richmond neighborhood restaurant building a menu around duck and American comfort food with a creative, quality-first approach that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed.
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