Nopalito on Broderick Street in San Francisco has been one of the Bay Area’s most celebrated authentic Mexican restaurants since it opened as a spinoff of Nopa, building a menu around the regional Mexican cooking traditions — house-made masa, slow-braised meats, and the complex sauces of interior Mexico — that most San Francisco Mexican restaurants
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 17Pizzeria Luigi on 25th Street in San Diego’s Golden Hill neighborhood has been a city pizza institution since Luigi Agostini opened it in 1995, serving New York-style pizza by the slice and whole pies with the quality and consistency that earns a neighborhood pizzeria its multigenerational loyal following across nearly three decades of San Diego
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Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 17OB Noodle House and Sake Bar on Cable Street in Ocean Beach has been a San Diego neighborhood institution since it opened, combining a serious Asian noodle program with a creative wings menu and one of the most respected sake selections in a city that has developed a strong appreciation for Japanese drinks culture. It
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 17Hodad’s on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach has been a San Diego burger institution since Mike Hardin opened it in 1969, serving the hand-formed burgers in a surf culture setting that has made it one of the most beloved and recognizable restaurants in a city with a serious burger culture. It appeared in Season 17,
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 17Eastside Market Italian Deli on Alpine Street in Los Angeles’s Chinatown-adjacent neighborhood has been a city Italian deli institution since the Badalamenti family opened it in 1929, serving the overstuffed Italian sub sandwiches, house-made salads, and the scratch-made Italian deli food that earns a Los Angeles neighborhood its most beloved Italian counter nearly a century
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 17The Park’s Finest BBQ on West Temple Street in Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown has been building a reputation as one of the most distinctive BBQ operations in the country since it opened, combining American slow-smoked BBQ technique with Filipino flavors — adobo-marinated smoked meats, longanisa sausage, and the Southeast Asian spice traditions that make The
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Barbecue, Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 17The Duce on South Central Avenue in Phoenix has been one of the city’s most distinctive bar and comfort food destinations since it opened, combining a vintage-inspired two-story space with scratch-made American comfort food, a serious cocktail and beer program, and the kind of eclectic, personality-driven atmosphere that makes a Phoenix restaurant feel genuinely unlike
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Arizona, Comfort Food, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 17Geechee Girl Rice Cafe appeared in Season 17, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “From Pound Cake to Pot Pie,” which aired July 1, 2013, as a Philadelphia Germantown restaurant celebrating the Gullah Geechee food traditions of the South Carolina and Georgia Low Country — a distinct African-American culinary tradition centered on rice, seafood,
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 17DeFalco’s Italian Eatery, Grocery and Deli on North Scottsdale Road has been a Valley of the Sun Italian deli institution since it opened, combining a working Italian grocery market with a deli counter serving house-made meatball subs, Italian sausage sandwiches, and the prepared Italian foods that earn a Scottsdale restaurant its loyal following in a
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Arizona, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Scottsdale, Season 17Jamaican Jerk Hut appeared in Season 17, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Timeless Traditions,” which aired June 24, 2013, as a Philadelphia South Street Jamaican restaurant serving the jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, and the island comfort food traditions that earned it a devoted following in a city with a significant Caribbean community
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