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Q Restaurant – San Francisco, California – Closed

American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 8

Q 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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American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 8

Tee Off Bar & Grill – San Francisco, California – Closed

Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 8

Tee Off Bar and Grill appeared in Season 8, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers, Steaks and Chops,” which aired November 23, 2009, as a San Francisco Richmond District bar and kitchen serving scratch-made pub food and slow-cooked pork that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:

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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 8

Dottie’s True Blue Cafe – San Francisco, California – Closed

Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

Dottie’s True Blue Cafe appeared in Season 6, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Cookin’,” which aired June 29, 2009, as a San Francisco breakfast institution on 6th Street in SoMa that had built a multi-decade reputation around creative scratch-made breakfast plates, housemade jams, and the kind of generous, quality-first morning food that

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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

Rocco’s Cafe – San Francisco, California

Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

Rocco’s Cafe on Folsom Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood has been serving Italian-American breakfast and lunch to the city since it opened, built around the kind of straightforward, generous, scratch-made food that earns a neighborhood diner its regulars one plate at a time. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and

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Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

Tommy’s Joynt – San Francisco, California

American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Sandwiches, Season 5

Tommy Harris was a popular young radio crooner on KFRC in San Francisco in the 1930s before moving to NBC. In 1947, he and partners Al Pollack and the Veprin family opened Tommy’s Joynt at the corner of Van Ness and Geary on Route 101, calling it “the most gorgeous joynt in S.F.” and welcoming

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American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Sandwiches, Season 5

Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant – San Francisco, California – Closed

Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 2

Joe Obegi opened Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco’s Excelsior District in 1965, when burgers were $0.40. He ran it until March 16, 2014 — 49 years, same owner, same address, same philosophy — when he closed the doors to retire rather than sell to someone who might compromise the quality.

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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 2
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