Mediterranean

Byblos Mediterranean Cafe – Syracuse, New York

Byblos Mediterranean Cafe on North Clinton Street in downtown Syracuse has been serving authentic Lebanese and Mediterranean cooking to the Central New York community since it opened, building a menu around house-made hummus, shawarma, and the mezze traditions of the Lebanese table that earn a Syracuse restaurant its destination reputation in a market with very

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Mediterranean, New York, Restaurants, Season 16

Mediterraneo Caffe – Providence, Rhode Island – Closed

Mediterraneo Caffe appeared in Season 15, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “East Coast Comfort,” which aired September 24, 2012, as a Providence Federal Hill Mediterranean and Italian cafe serving the espresso, pastries, and light Italian cafe food that earned it its place alongside the neighborhood’s more established Italian restaurants on Atwells Avenue. The

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Mediterranean, Restaurants, Rhode Island, Season 15

Afrah – Richardson, Texas

Afrah on East Main Street in Richardson has been one of the Dallas area’s most celebrated Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants since it opened, serving the mezze plates, shawarma, and slow-cooked Arabic dishes that earn a suburban Dallas restaurant its destination reputation among the DFW area’s large Middle Eastern community and the broader Dallas food

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Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Restaurants, Season 14, Texas

Moroccan Bites – San Antonio, Texas

Moroccan Bites on Evers Road in San Antonio has been bringing the fragrant, spice-driven cooking of Morocco to a city that had very little access to North African cuisine since it opened, serving tagines, couscous, bastilla, and the slow-cooked Moroccan comfort food traditions that are genuinely rare in Texas. It appeared in Season 12, Episode

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Mediterranean, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, Texas

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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