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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Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 5Joe Morozin launched his first diner in 1940 at age 16. Over the next two decades he opened and closed more than a dozen restaurants before landing in Northeast Philadelphia in 1960, where he opened the Torresdale Diner at 8828 Frankford Avenue. The name changed to The Dining Car in 1976, and a fire destroyed
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Diner, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 2Charlie’s Diner in Spencer, Massachusetts has been running on three generations of the same Turner family for over 60 years. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Family Owned,” aired November 23, 2007 — and that episode title was as accurate as it gets. The diner itself started in
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Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 2The 11th Street Diner started its life in 1948 when the Paramount Dining Car Company of Haledon, New Jersey built an Art Deco aluminum-sided diner and shipped it to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It operated there for 44 years before being dismantled, transported to Miami Beach, and reassembled in the heart of the South Beach Art Deco
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Diner, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Mike’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 2Gus Tselios grew up with big Greek family diners in New York and moved to Georgia with a plan to build something similar in the South. He succeeded by a considerable margin. Marietta Diner sits on Cobb Parkway just outside Atlanta and serves nearly 3,000 people a day from a 500-item menu, 24 hours a
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Diner, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 3White Palace Grill has been open every single day since 1939. Not most days. Every day. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, around the clock, for going on 87 years. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Open 24/7,” aired January 13, 2008 — and Guy Fieri found
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Chicago, Diner, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2Some restaurants earn their place on the map. The Rock Café in Stroud, Oklahoma earned its place in history. Built in 1936 using sandstone left over from Route 66 road construction — purchased for five dollars — and opened in August 1939, it has been feeding travelers on the Mother Road ever since. It appeared
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American, Diner, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 2Silk City Diner – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia has no shortage of places worth eating, but Silk City Diner on Spring Garden Street occupies a category all its own. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Totally Fried,” aired October 1, 2007 — and it brought something to that episode
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American, Diner, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 2Rosie’s Diner in Rockford, Michigan carried more history per square foot than most restaurants ever dream of. Featured in Season 1, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Cookin’,” which aired July 30, 2007 — it was already one of the most storied dining cars in the country long before Guy Fieri ever
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