Andy Ricker spent years traveling and eating in northern Thailand before opening Pok Pok in 2005 as a tiny shack in his front yard on SE Division Street in Portland, serving Vietnamese-style fish sauce chicken wings and the regional Thai food of Chiang Mai that most Americans had never encountered. The restaurant grew from that […]
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7, ThaiTap Tap Haitian Restaurant appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired October 5, 2009, as a Miami Beach Haitian restaurant bringing the authentic flavors of Haitian cuisine to South Beach — griot, legim, plantains, and the piquant Scotch bonnet-fired cooking of the Caribbean nation
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 7Ziggy Gruber is the third generation of a New York deli family who moved to Houston and opened Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in 1999, determined to bring the full New York Jewish deli experience — towering sandwiches, house-cured pastrami, matzo ball soup, knishes, cheesecake — to a city that had never had the
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Houston, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7, TexasMom’s Tamales appeared in Season 7, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Picked ‘Em,” which aired September 7, 2009, as a Los Angeles tamale operation building hand-made tamales from family recipes in the tradition that defines the dish at its best. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Mom’s TamalesCity: Los
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 7Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine appeared in Season 7, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Only At This Joint,” which aired August 31, 2009, as a Boise restaurant that leaned fully into its trailer park theme while delivering scratch-made comfort food that was anything but low-rent. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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Boise, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7Rodney Muirhead grew up in Texas, moved to Portland, and got tired of not being able to find Texas-style BBQ. In 2006 he opened Podnah’s Pit Barbecue on NE Killingsworth and started smoking brisket, ribs, and sausage over oak and pecan the way he grew up eating it. Portland took notice immediately. Podnah’s appeared in
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Barbecue, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7Tre Kronor on West Foster Avenue in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood has been serving Swedish and Scandinavian food since Ann Magnuson and her family opened it, named for the three crowns of the Swedish coat of arms. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Global Grub,” which aired August 24,
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7Pam’s Kitchen on University Way NE in Seattle’s University District has been bringing authentic Trinidadian and Caribbean cooking to the Pacific Northwest since owner Pam opened it, serving doubles, roti, curry, and the kind of Trinidad street food that most of Seattle had never encountered. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Carribean, Restaurants, Season 7, Seattle, WashingtonCempazuchi appeared in Season 7, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers, Tacos and Dogs,” which aired August 10, 2009, as a Milwaukee Brady Street restaurant serving authentic Oaxacan and regional Mexican food well beyond Tex-Mex — mole negro, tlayudas, and the complex preparations of southern Mexico that most of the Midwest had never
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Milwaukee, Restaurants, Season 7, WisconsinAubrey and Nona Lankford started a fruit stand in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in 1937, moved into a two-story building at 88 Dennis Street in 1939, and ran a full-service grocery there for four decades. In the early 1980s their daughter Eydie took over, recognized the big grocery chains weren’t beatable, and pivoted to a
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