Harry 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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Breakfast, Diner, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 3Arleta Library Bakery and Cafe on SE 72nd at Harold in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood takes its name from the Arleta School building that once occupied the site — a neighborhood institution repurposed into a bakery and cafe that functions as a neighborhood institution of a different kind. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of
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Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6In late October 2004, Matt Pool opened an 800-square-foot red brick restaurant on a quiet corner in downtown Phoenix. He had no advertising budget and a menu built around one conviction: food tastes better when prepared simply with better ingredients. Within a few years the lines were stretching out the door every day. It appeared
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Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Mama’s 39th Street Diner appeared in Season 3, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Big Breakfast,” aired March 10, 2008 — as a Kansas City breakfast institution serving the kind of hearty, no-shortcuts morning food that earns a Triple D segment. The diner has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Mama’s 39th Street
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