Hopleaf Bar on North Clark Street in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated craft beer bars and pub kitchens since Michael Roper opened it in 1992, building a menu around Belgian-inspired pub food — mussels, frites, and the Flemish comfort food traditions — alongside one of the most serious Belgian […]
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Chicago, Gastropub, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 14Casper and Runyon’s Nook on South Hamline Avenue in St. Paul has been a Twin Cities burger institution since it opened in 1938, serving the Juicy Nookie — St. Paul’s contribution to the loosemeat and stuffed burger tradition — in a neighborhood tavern setting that has barely changed in nearly 90 years of continuous operation.
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Burgers, Gastropub, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 14Smack Shack at The 1029 Bar on Marshall Street Northeast in Minneapolis brought serious Gulf and Atlantic seafood to a Northeast Minneapolis dive bar setting, pairing lobster rolls, crab boils, and the kind of fresh seafood that most Minneapolis diners had to travel to the coasts to find with the no-pretension atmosphere of a neighborhood
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Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 14Joe Squared Pizza on West North Avenue in Baltimore’s Station North Arts District was one of the city’s most celebrated pizza destinations for nearly two decades, building a reputation around square-pan pizzas with creative topping combinations and a live music venue atmosphere that made it as much a Baltimore cultural institution as a food one.
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Baltimore, Gastropub, Maryland, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 13Fuel Cantina appeared in Season 13, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Old Faves, New Craves,” which aired February 13, 2012, as a Charleston Mexican and pub food restaurant serving creative scratch-made tacos, burritos, and the kind of Tex-Mex-influenced comfort food that earned a downtown Charleston following. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick
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Gastropub, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 13, South CarolinaFlip Flops Grill and Chill on Upton Drive in Virginia Beach has been serving the kind of fresh seafood and casual pub food that earns a resort city restaurant its year-round loyal following since it opened, combining Virginia Beach’s access to fresh Atlantic seafood with a pub food menu that keeps the local community coming
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Gastropub, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 13, VirginiaSidecar appeared in Season 13, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Matters,” which aired February 6, 2012, as a Park Slope, Brooklyn American pub and restaurant serving creative scratch-made bar food and comfort plates that earned a devoted neighborhood following in one of Brooklyn’s most food-conscious residential communities. The original Park Slope location
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American, Brooklyn, Gastropub, New York, Restaurants, Season 13Tattooed Moose on Morrison Drive in Charleston has been one of the city’s most celebrated casual restaurants since it opened, building a reputation around creative pub food and sandwiches — most famously a duck club sandwich that has become one of the most talked-about menu items in a city with an exceptionally deep restaurant culture.
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Gastropub, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 13, South CarolinaClarkston Union Bar and Kitchen on South Main Street in Clarkston has been one of Metro Detroit’s most celebrated neighborhood restaurants since it opened, building a menu around scratch-made pub food and pasta in a restored 1893 building that makes it the anchor of Clarkston’s historic Main Street. It appeared in Season 13, Episode 3
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Gastropub, Michigan, Restaurants, Season 13Tampa Bay Brewing Company on East 8th Avenue in Ybor City has been one of Tampa’s anchor craft breweries since it opened, combining a serious brewing program with a scratch-made pub food kitchen in the historic Latin Quarter neighborhood that built Tampa’s identity. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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