Comfort Food

Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine – Boise, Idaho – Closed

Boise, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7

Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine appeared in Season 7, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Only At This Joint,” which aired August 31, 2009, as a Boise restaurant that leaned fully into its trailer park theme while delivering scratch-made comfort food that was anything but low-rent. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts […]

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Rick’s Press Room Grill & Bar – Meridian, Idaho – Closed

American, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7

Rick’s Press Room Grill and Bar appeared in Season 7, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Name That Cook,” which aired August 17, 2009, as a Meridian, Idaho American comfort food restaurant serving scratch-made food that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Rick’s Press Room Grill and

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Lankford Grocery & Market – Houston, Texas

Burgers, Comfort Food, Houston, Restaurants, Season 7, Texas

Aubrey and Nona Lankford started a fruit stand in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in 1937, moved into a two-story building at 88 Dennis Street in 1939, and ran a full-service grocery there for four decades. In the early 1980s their daughter Eydie took over, recognized the big grocery chains weren’t beatable, and pivoted to a

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The Depot American Diner – Chicago, Illinois – Closed

Chicago, Comfort Food, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7

The Depot American Diner appeared in Season 7, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Upper Crust,” which aired August 3, 2009, as a Chicago West Side diner serving scratch-made American comfort food to a neighborhood that needed exactly that restaurant. The Depot has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: The Depot American DinerCity: Chicago,

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Comet Cafe – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Comfort Food, Diner, Milwaukee, Restaurants, Season 6, Wisconsin

Comet Cafe on North Farwell Avenue in Milwaukee’s East Side neighborhood has been a neighborhood comfort food institution since it opened, serving the kind of scratch-made diner food — mac and cheese, meatloaf, chicken pot pie, and the kind of American comfort classics that the East Side’s mix of students, artists, and longtime Milwaukee residents

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Lake Effect Diner – Buffalo, New York

Comfort Food, Diner, New York, Restaurants, Season 7

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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Grampa’s Bakery & Restaurant – Dania Beach, Florida

Bakery, Comfort Food, Florida, Restaurants, Season 3

Grampa’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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Central City Café – Huntington, West Virginia

American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 3, West Virginia

Central 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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DeWese’s Tip Top Café – San Antonio, Texas

American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 3, Texas

DeWese’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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Mike’s City Diner – Boston, Massachusetts

Comfort Food, Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 2

Mike’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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