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Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant – San Francisco, California – Closed

Joe Obegi opened Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco’s Excelsior District in 1965, when burgers were $0.40. He ran it until March 16, 2014 — 49 years, same owner, same address, same philosophy — when he closed the doors to retire rather than sell to someone who might compromise the quality. […]

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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 2

G&A Restaurant – White Marsh, Maryland

G&A Restaurant was originally a Baltimore institution, operating on Eastern Avenue in the Highlandtown neighborhood for decades before relocating. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers and Dogs,” which aired July 28, 2008, at its original Baltimore location, where it had been serving Eastern European-influenced comfort food including kielbasa,

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Burgers, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 4

Monte Carlo Steak House – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Monte Carlo Steak House sits on Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, which means it sits on Historic Route 66 in a city that has been a crossroads stop for travelers since the highway was commissioned. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution serving steaks and burgers to a loyal local following for decades, built on

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Albuquerque, Burgers, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3, Steakhouse

Joe’s Farm Grill – Gilbert, Arizona

In 1967 Jim and Virginia Johnston built a ranch-style home on their farm in what would eventually become Gilbert, Arizona. They raised three sons there — Joe, Steve, and Paul — on land that had been farmed since 1927, when barren desert was cleared and irrigation made agriculture possible. By the time the Agritopia development

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American, Arizona, Burgers, Restaurants, Season 3

Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Café – Victorville, California

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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Breakfast, Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2
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