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Rick & Ann’s Restaurant – Berkeley, California

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Rick and Ann’s on Domingo Avenue in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood has been a neighborhood breakfast and brunch institution since Rick Mahan and Ann Walker opened it, building a menu around scratch-made morning food with the kind of locally sourced, seasonal approach that made Berkeley’s food culture famous before it became nationally common. It appeared in […]

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The Diner – Norman, Oklahoma

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The Diner on East Main Street in Norman has been feeding University of Oklahoma students, faculty, and Norman residents since it opened, serving all-day breakfast and diner comfort food in a college town that runs on exactly this kind of restaurant. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners Times

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The Little Depot Diner – Peabody, Massachusetts

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The Little Depot Diner in Peabody is a classic New England diner in every sense — counter seating, booths, scratch-made breakfast plates, and the kind of old-school diner energy that the format was built around. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners Times Three,” which aired November 9, 2009.

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Nickel Diner – Los Angeles, California – Closed

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Nickel Diner appeared in Season 7, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Blast from the Past,” which aired October 19, 2009, as a downtown Los Angeles diner on South Main Street serving scratch-made breakfast and diner food with a creative bent — most notably the maple-bacon donut that became something of a city landmark.

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Nic’s Grill – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Nic’s Grill on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Oklahoma City is a small counter-service burger spot that has been producing some of the best smash burgers in the state since Nick Papadopulous opened it, operating out of a space barely large enough to seat a dozen people with a kitchen that produces outsized results. It appeared

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Over Easy – Phoenix, Arizona

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Over Easy on East Indian School Road in Phoenix has been one of the city’s go-to breakfast and brunch destinations since it opened, building a loyal following around creative morning plates that go well beyond the standard Phoenix breakfast menu. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Cookin’,” which

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

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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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Rocco’s Cafe – San Francisco, California

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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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Pine State Biscuits – Portland, Oregon

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Brian Snyder, Walt Alexander, and Kevin Atchley grew up in North Carolina, moved to Portland, and missed biscuits the way transplanted Southerners always miss the specific foods of home. They spent months developing a recipe before debuting at the Portland Saturday Farmers Market in 2006, where the lines stretched to an hour within weeks. By

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The Silver Skillet – Atlanta, Georgia

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Sara and Tommy Haygood opened The Silver Skillet in 1956 in Midtown Atlanta when 14th Street was a very different road than the skyscraper corridor it became. Jimmy Collins — the same man who helped design the original Dwarf Houses that became Chick-fil-A — transformed the building into its current Mid-Century diner appearance. George and

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