Lake Effect Diner on Main Street in Buffalo has been one of the city’s favorite breakfast and comfort food stops since it opened, named after the weather phenomenon that defines western New York winters and serving the kind of hearty scratch-made diner food that Buffalo winters demand. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 13 of […]
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Comfort Food, Diner, New York, Restaurants, Season 7Grampa’s Bakery and Restaurant in Dania Beach, Florida built its reputation on baking everything from scratch in house and then building a comfort food menu around that baking foundation. The cinnamon rolls, the bread, the pies, the biscuits — all of it comes from the kitchen rather than a supplier. It appeared in Season 3,
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Bakery, Comfort Food, Florida, Restaurants, Season 3Central City Café in Huntington, West Virginia has been a neighborhood gathering place serving American comfort food to a loyal community of regulars who know what they want and keep coming back for it. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Food,” which aired June 15, 2008, as a
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American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 3, West VirginiaDeWese’s Tip Top Café has been on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio since 1938, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the city. The official name is DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe, though it is widely known simply as the Tip Top. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 3, TexasMike’s City Diner has been a South End institution since Chef Jay Hajj opened it in 1995, and it didn’t take long for the rest of the country to catch up to what Boston already knew. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007
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Comfort Food, Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 2Baxter Springs, Kansas sits at the very bottom tip of the state where Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma meet, right on old Route 66. It is a small town with a big history, and for a stretch of years it had a restaurant inside a former bank building that could stop a road tripper cold. Café
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American, Comfort Food, Kansas, Restaurants, Season 2Ramona, California is the kind of small town that doesn’t make a lot of noise — which makes it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. Ramona Cafe has been on Main Street since 1936, serving San Diego County’s backcountry the kind of scratch-made comfort food that doesn’t need
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American, Califonia, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 2Every road has a starting point. For Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, that starting point was right here — 2019 S Wood Ave, Linden, NJ 07036. Johnny Prince’s Famous Bayway Diner lays claim to being the first diner ever featured on the show, which makes it less of a stop on the Triple D trail and
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Comfort Food, Diner, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 1Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire has the kind of all-day diner presence that fits Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives like chrome trim on a counter stool. Featured in Season 1, Episode 8, this was a natural stop for House Specials: a classic diner, a comfort-food lane that never goes out of style, and the
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Comfort Food, Diner, New Hampshire, Restaurants, Season 1The Penguin in Charlotte, North Carolina brought burger-joint comfort and neighborhood personality to Season 1, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. In an episode called Blue Plate Special, it fit right into the early Triple D groove: casual food, local character, and the kind of place that did not need a fancy pitch to
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