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Arleta Library Bakery & Cafe – Portland, Oregon

Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

Arleta 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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Matt’s Big Breakfast – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

In 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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Mama’s 39th Street Diner – Kansas City, Missouri – Closed

Breakfast, Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3

Mama’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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Brandy’s Restaurant & Bakery – Flagstaff, Arizona

Arizona, Bakery, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 6

Brandy’s Restaurant and Bakery on East Cedar Avenue in Flagstaff has been a Northern Arizona breakfast and bakery institution since owner Brandy opened it with a commitment to baking everything in house and building a morning menu around that from-scratch foundation. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Their Own

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Mustache Bill’s Diner – Barnegat Light, New Jersey

Breakfast, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 2

Bill Smith started at Mustache Bill’s Diner as a dishwasher at age 14, when it was still called the Barnegat Light Diner. He bought it in 1972 and ran it for over 50 years. He never bought anything pre-made. He cracked whole eggs instead of using liquid egg cartons. He made gravy the old-fashioned way,

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Kelly O’s Diner – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 5

Kelly O’Connor grew up in a huge family around kitchens, not cooking school. She had no formal culinary training when she opened Kelly O’s Diner on Perry Highway in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. What she had was a handful of family recipes — including her grandmother’s haluski — and the conviction to build a neighborhood diner

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Blue Moon Café – Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore, Breakfast, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 3

Sarah Simington grew up watching her mother Sherri work the diner counter, which gave her both the love of breakfast food and the knowledge of how to execute it properly. In 1996 the two of them opened the Blue Moon Café in Baltimore’s historic Fells Point neighborhood, and Sarah’s rock and roll personality went into

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Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Café – Victorville, California

Breakfast, Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2

Route 66 has produced a lot of legendary stops over the decades, and Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Café in Victorville, California earns its place among the best of them. The pistachio green building at 17143 N. D St. has been feeding truck drivers, road-trippers, and High Desert locals since 1947, and it looked right at

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