The Diner on East Main Street in Norman has been feeding University of Oklahoma students, faculty, and Norman residents since it opened, serving all-day breakfast and diner comfort food in a college town that runs on exactly this kind of restaurant. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners Times
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Breakfast, Diner, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 7Santa Cruz Diner on Ocean Street has been the place to land after a night on the Boardwalk or a morning at the beach since it opened, serving the kind of all-hours diner comfort food that a beach town earns its reputation on. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Califonia, Comfort Food, Diner, Restaurants, Season 7The Little Depot Diner in Peabody is a classic New England diner in every sense — counter seating, booths, scratch-made breakfast plates, and the kind of old-school diner energy that the format was built around. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners Times Three,” which aired November 9, 2009.
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Breakfast, Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 7Nickel Diner appeared in Season 7, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Blast from the Past,” which aired October 19, 2009, as a downtown Los Angeles diner on South Main Street serving scratch-made breakfast and diner food with a creative bent — most notably the maple-bacon donut that became something of a city landmark.
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 7Comet 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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Comfort Food, Diner, Milwaukee, Restaurants, Season 6, WisconsinDottie’s True Blue Cafe appeared in Season 6, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Cookin’,” which aired June 29, 2009, as a San Francisco breakfast institution on 6th Street in SoMa that had built a multi-decade reputation around creative scratch-made breakfast plates, housemade jams, and the kind of generous, quality-first morning food that
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6Harold and Dorothy Hoersch opened a 14-stool lunch counter called the Juniper Café on a corner in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood in May 1944. Dorothy had previously worked as a secretary at Consolidated Aircraft and had no restaurant experience. Within two years the café had outgrown its space and moved to 2271 First Avenue,
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American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5O’Rourke’s Diner on Main Street in Middletown, Connecticut was one of the most beloved diners in New England, operating since 1941 in an authentic 1946 Mountain View diner car that owner Brian O’Rourke ran for decades with a scratch-made menu well beyond standard diner expectations. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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American, Connecticut, Diner, Restaurants, Season 5In 1930, Ruth Evans opened Ruth’s Hamburgers in the old Meredith Building at 120 East Second South in downtown Salt Lake City. When the building was scheduled for demolition in 1946, she purchased an old Utah Light and Traction Company trolley car and moved her business rather than close it. In the spring of 1949
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American, Breakfast, Diner, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, UtahGlenn’s Diner on West Montrose Avenue in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood built its reputation on an unusually bold promise for a neighborhood diner: serving the freshest possible seafood, flown in daily, alongside the American diner classics that keep a neighborhood restaurant full every morning. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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