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, UtahKent Pfeiffer wanted to name his restaurant Eddy’s Westside Cafe, but he and his wife Diana settled on a name after a diner they loved in Louisiana — something involving a nice flower, a magnolia maybe. Magnolia Cafe opened in 1979 on Lake Austin Boulevard and expanded to South Congress in 1988. The story of
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American, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasThe Dor-Stop Restaurant sits on a corner of Potomac Avenue in Dormont, a borough just south of Pittsburgh on the other side of the Liberty Tunnels, and Bob and Vicki Lawhorne have been running it as a family operation for over 25 years. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5Harry Shapiro grew up in Philadelphia, trained as a chef, and eventually landed in Santa Fe, where he brought his Philadelphia food sensibility — particularly a deep affection for scrapple — into a Southwestern roadhouse setting. Harry’s Roadhouse has been on Old Las Vegas Highway just outside of downtown Santa Fe since the 1990s, earning
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Breakfast, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Surrey’s Café and Juice Bar sits on Magazine Street in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District, in a small, warm space that has been filling up every morning since it opened. The café earned its reputation on house-made bagels, fresh-squeezed organic juices, boudin hash with andouille, and shrimp and grits that belong in the conversation about
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Breakfast, Louisiana, Restaurants, Season 5Surrey’s Café and Juice Bar sits on Magazine Street in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District, in a small, warm space that has been filling up every morning since it opened. The café earned its reputation on house-made bagels, fresh-squeezed organic juices, boudin hash with andouille, and shrimp and grits that belong in the conversation about
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Breakfast, Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Season 5Tecolote Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Regional Favorites,” aired March 24, 2008 — as a Santa Fe breakfast institution serving New Mexican-style food that reflected the deep culinary traditions of the region: green and red chile, huevos rancheros, posole, and the kind of morning cooking that defines
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Breakfast, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3The name is a pun — a schooner is a 24-ounce chalice of beer — and it sets the tone for a breakfast and lunch spot that operates on Long Beach marina time, which is to say unhurried, waterfront, and worth the wait. Schooner or Later at Alamitos Harbor has been open since 1985, sitting
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American, Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Bubba’s Diner appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Biscuits, Bagels and BLTs,” which aired May 4, 2009, as a San Anselmo diner in Marin County serving the kind of generous, scratch-made breakfast and diner food that built a loyal community following in one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, Season 6Peter and Irene Bournias emigrated from Chios, Greece in the 1950s and opened a tiny subway car diner in downtown Jersey City in 1968. They had no idea what a pancake was when they started. By the time their children took over, the family had invented 31 varieties of them. The Brownstone Diner and Pancake
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