Mediterranean

Cafe Rakka – Hendersonville, Tennessee

Cafe Rakka on New Shackle Island Road in Hendersonville has been bringing authentic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking to suburban Nashville since it opened, serving house-made hummus, falafel, shawarma, and the scratch-made Lebanese and Mediterranean dishes that are genuinely difficult to find in Nashville’s surrounding communities. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 6 of Diners, […]

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Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Restaurants, Season 10, Tennessee

Cafe Pita+ – Houston, Texas – Closed

Cafe Pita+ appeared in Season 7, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Style,” which aired November 2, 2009, as a Houston Bosnian restaurant serving the food of the former Yugoslavia — cevapi, burek, and the Eastern European-Mediterranean cooking that Houston’s Bosnian immigrant community brought with them — in a setting that gave the

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Houston, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, Texas

Niko Niko’s – Houston, Texas

Niko Niko’s on Montrose Boulevard has been a Houston institution since Niko Pappas opened it in 1977, serving Greek food to a city that didn’t know it needed a neighborhood Greek restaurant until it had one. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired

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Greek, Houston, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, Texas

Prince Lebanese Grill – Arlington, Texas

Prince Lebanese Grill on West Randol Mill Road in Arlington has been serving authentic Lebanese food to the DFW metroplex since it opened, building a following around house-made hummus, fresh-baked pita, shawarma, and the kind of from-scratch Lebanese cooking that is genuinely difficult to find in North Texas. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 4

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Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, Texas

Crystal Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Closed

Crystal Restaurant on Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh appeared in Season 4, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Taste of Everywhere,” which aired September 15, 2008, as a Lebanese and Mediterranean kitchen bringing authentic Middle Eastern cooking to Pittsburgh’s downtown dining scene. Also listed as Crystal on Penn, the restaurant earned its DDD

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Mediterranean, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Mad Greek Cafe – Baker, California

Mad Greek Cafe in Baker, California is the kind of desert-road stop that practically begs for a pull-off. Sitting along one of the most traveled stretches between Southern California and Las Vegas, it brought a little Greek and Mediterranean flavor to Season 1, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. There is a fun early-series

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Califonia, Greek, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 1
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