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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Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5LoBello’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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Italian, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5Donatelli’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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Italian, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Amato’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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Italian, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 4La 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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Arizona, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6In 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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Italian, Restaurants, Season 6, Seattle, WashingtonHullabaloo Diner in Wellborn, Texas sounds like it was named with a grin, and that already puts it in a good lane for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Featured in Season 1, Episode 2, this Texas stop brought a mix of American diner fare and Italian specials to an episode built around red-sauce comfort. That combination
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