Pescadero, 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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American, Restaurants, Season 3, VirginiaPsycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge was not a place you stumbled into by accident. The tiki bar on the Mississippi River in northeast Minneapolis was a full-blown experience: tropical drinks, pizza, fire-lit torches, waterfront seating, zombie slushies, and enough tiki kitsch to make your eyes work hard just to take it all in. It appeared in
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American, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 2Baxter Springs, Kansas sits at the very bottom tip of the state where Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma meet, right on old Route 66. It is a small town with a big history, and for a stretch of years it had a restaurant inside a former bank building that could stop a road tripper cold. Café
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American, Comfort Food, Kansas, Restaurants, Season 2Ramona, California is the kind of small town that doesn’t make a lot of noise — which makes it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. Ramona Cafe has been on Main Street since 1936, serving San Diego County’s backcountry the kind of scratch-made comfort food that doesn’t need
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American, Califonia, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 2Some restaurants earn their place on the map. The Rock Café in Stroud, Oklahoma earned its place in history. Built in 1936 using sandstone left over from Route 66 road construction — purchased for five dollars — and opened in August 1939, it has been feeding travelers on the Mother Road ever since. It appeared
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American, Diner, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 2A vintage dining car built in 1927, sitting on Pine Street in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch neighborhood, serving Portuguese food until 4:00 AM. Guy Fieri called it one of the most unique diners he’d ever come across in California. That’s not a throwaway line from a man who has been inside several thousand restaurants. The
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Silk City Diner – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia has no shortage of places worth eating, but Silk City Diner on Spring Garden Street occupies a category all its own. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Totally Fried,” aired October 1, 2007 — and it brought something to that episode
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American, Diner, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 2Not every Triple D stop is just a TV appearance. Some are personal. The Russian River Pub in Forestville, California falls squarely into that second category. When Guy Fieri featured it in Season 1, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Cookin’,” aired July 30, 2007 — he called it one of his
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