Town Talk Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as one of the viewer-nominated stops in an episode driven entirely by fan recommendations. The diner occupied a building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis that had housed a bar since […]
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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Studio Diner in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa neighborhood was not built to be a restaurant. It was built in the summer of 2003 as a film set next door to the 20-acre Stu Segall Productions facility — the same lot that hosted productions like Veronica Mars and Bring It On. At some point someone realized
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Central City Café in Huntington, West Virginia has been a neighborhood gathering place serving American comfort food to a loyal community of regulars who know what they want and keep coming back for it. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Food,” which aired June 15, 2008, as a
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American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 3, West VirginiaDeWese’s Tip Top Café has been on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio since 1938, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the city. The official name is DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe, though it is widely known simply as the Tip Top. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 3, TexasIn 1967 Jim and Virginia Johnston built a ranch-style home on their farm in what would eventually become Gilbert, Arizona. They raised three sons there — Joe, Steve, and Paul — on land that had been farmed since 1927, when barren desert was cleared and irrigation made agriculture possible. By the time the Agritopia development
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American, Arizona, Burgers, Restaurants, Season 3The name alone earned Potterville, Michigan a spot in the Triple D history books. Joe’s Gizzard City appeared in Season 2, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “One of a Kind,” aired November 19, 2007 — and Guy Fieri got a quick lesson in what a gizzard actually is (a chicken’s second stomach,
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American, Michigan, Restaurants, Season 2Willie Benedetti raised turkeys. Then he turned those turkeys into a restaurant that became a Sonoma County institution. Willie Bird’s Restaurant in Santa Rosa, California appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007 — and it was the perfect fit for that episode. The man
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Pescadero, California is a small coastal town on San Mateo County’s coast, the kind of place you drive through on the way to somewhere else until you find out about Duarte’s Tavern. Open since 1894, it appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 —
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Vinita, Oklahoma is a small town on Route 66 that most travelers pass through without stopping. Clanton’s Café, sitting at 319 E. Illinois Ave. since 1927, is the reason to stop. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 — and brought something to
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American, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 2Guy Fieri described The Village Café as “part dive, part bar, but all neighborhood joint.” That’s a precise description of what has been going on at 1001 West Grace Street in Richmond’s Fan District since 1956. The Village Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Neighborhood Joints,” aired March
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