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Rick’s Press Room Grill & Bar – Meridian, Idaho – Closed

American, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7

Rick’s Press Room Grill and Bar appeared in Season 7, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Name That Cook,” which aired August 17, 2009, as a Meridian, Idaho American comfort food restaurant serving scratch-made food that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Rick’s Press Room Grill and […]

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American, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7

Donn’s Hilltop Kodiak Grill – Boise, Idaho

American, Boise, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6

Donn’s Hilltop Kodiak Grill on East Highway 21 southeast of Boise sits at the Hilltop Station, a roadside stop in the Boise foothills that combines a gas station, a convenience store, and a restaurant in the kind of unlikely combination that Triple D was built to find. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 11 of

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American, Boise, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6

Zia Diner – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 6

Zia Diner and Angel Food Catering appeared in Season 6, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Homestyle,” which aired June 1, 2009, as a Santa Fe diner serving American and New Mexican comfort food with the scratch-made attention that earned a DDD segment. The restaurant was a downtown Santa Fe institution on South Guadalupe

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American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 6

Standard Diner – Albuquerque, New Mexico

American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Standard Diner occupies a 1938 Texaco service station on Central Avenue SE in Albuquerque — which means it occupies a stretch of Historic Route 66 in a building that has its own National Register of Historic Places potential. The restoration converted the gas station into a full-service diner without erasing the Art Deco bones of

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American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Hob Nob Hill – San Diego, California

American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5

Harold and Dorothy Hoersch opened a 14-stool lunch counter called the Juniper Café on a corner in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood in May 1944. Dorothy had previously worked as a secretary at Consolidated Aircraft and had no restaurant experience. Within two years the café had outgrown its space and moved to 2271 First Avenue,

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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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O’Rourke’s Diner – Middletown, Connecticut – Closed

American, Connecticut, Diner, Restaurants, Season 5

O’Rourke’s Diner on Main Street in Middletown, Connecticut was one of the most beloved diners in New England, operating since 1941 in an authentic 1946 Mountain View diner car that owner Brian O’Rourke ran for decades with a scratch-made menu well beyond standard diner expectations. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins

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American, Connecticut, Diner, Restaurants, Season 5

Ruth’s Diner – Salt Lake City, Utah

American, Breakfast, Diner, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, Utah

In 1930, Ruth Evans opened Ruth’s Hamburgers in the old Meredith Building at 120 East Second South in downtown Salt Lake City. When the building was scheduled for demolition in 1946, she purchased an old Utah Light and Traction Company trolley car and moved her business rather than close it. In the spring of 1949

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American, Breakfast, Diner, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, Utah

Iron Barley – St. Louis, Missouri – Closed

American, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, St. Louis

Iron Barley appeared in Season 3, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Neighborhood Joints,” aired March 31, 2008 — as a St. Louis neighborhood pub serving creative American food well beyond standard bar fare. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Iron BarleyCity: St. Louis, MissouriCuisine: American / Pub FareDDD Season:

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American, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, St. Louis
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