Baxter 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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Burgers, Comfort Food, North Carolina, Season 1Leo’s BBQ in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma feels like the kind of stop that does not waste time explaining itself. It showed up in Season 1, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and in an episode called Local Legends, a barbecue and soul food spot like this sounds right at home. There is a different
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