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The Original Vito & Nick’s Pizzeria – Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5

Vito and Nick Barraco opened their pizzeria on South Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side in 1932, originally as a tavern that served food. The pizza program became the focus over time, and Vito and Nick’s developed one of the most distinctive styles in Chicago: a thin, crispy, cracker-like crust cut into squares rather than […]

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Pizzeria Luigi – San Diego, California

Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5

Pizzeria Luigi on 25th Street in San Diego’s Golden Hill neighborhood has been making New York-style pizza by the slice since 1992, run by Luigi Agostini who left his native Italy and eventually landed in Southern California with a determination to make pizza the way he grew up eating it. It appeared in Season 5,

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LoBello’s Spaghetti House – Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Closed

Italian, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5

LoBello’s Spaghetti House appeared in Season 5, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Real Deal Italian,” which aired November 17, 2008, as a family-run Coraopolis Italian restaurant serving scratch-made pasta and old-school Italian-American cooking that had built a multi-generational following west of Pittsburgh. The restaurant closed in 2017. Quick Facts Restaurant: LoBello’s Spaghetti HouseCity:

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Donatelli’s – White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Italian, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4

Donatelli’s in White Bear Lake, Minnesota has been serving Italian-American food to the Twin Cities suburbs since 1960, building a multi-generational following around scratch-made pasta, house-made meatballs, and the kind of Italian supper club cooking that defines Midwestern Italian dining at its best. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,

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Amato’s – Omaha, Nebraska – Closed

Italian, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4

Amato’s in Omaha appeared in Season 4, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Better Than Ever,” which aired September 22, 2008, as an Omaha Italian restaurant and breakfast operation serving scratch-made Italian food with the kind of family recipe approach that earned a DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:

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La Piazza Al Forno – Glendale, Arizona

Arizona, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6

La Piazza Al Forno in historic downtown Glendale has been making Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza in a neighborhood a block from Murphy Park since opening, producing the kind of thin-crust, blistered, properly charred pizza that almost never shows up in the Phoenix suburbs. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A

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Bizzarro Italian Cafe – Seattle, Washington

Italian, Restaurants, Season 6, Seattle, Washington

In 1986, David Nast was a visual artist with a shoestring budget and a dream. He took a 1920s auto garage in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, enlisted a crew of artist friends, and transformed it into a restaurant that would reflect his personality in every corner: a vintage tandem bike suspended from the ceiling, an oversize

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