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Nickel Diner – Los Angeles, California – Closed

Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 7

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

Breakfast, Burgers, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 7

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

Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 6

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

Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

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

Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

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

Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

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

Atlanta, Breakfast, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 5, Southern

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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Ruth’s Diner – Salt Lake City, Utah

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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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Dor-Stop Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5

The 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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