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Avila’s Mexican – Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Avila’s Mexican Restaurant on Maple Avenue in Dallas has been a neighborhood institution serving family-recipe Mexican food since the Avila family opened it, building a multi-generational following around enchiladas, tamales, and the kind of from-scratch Tex-Mex and interior Mexican cooking that earns decades of loyalty. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins […]

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Los Taquitos Mexican Grill – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 6

Los Taquitos Mexican Grill on East Elliot Road in the Ahwatukee area of Phoenix appeared in Season 6, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Over the Map,” which aired June 15, 2009. Guy Fieri found a Phoenix Mexican restaurant building authentic tacos, burritos, and Mexican street food from scratch in a neighborhood that

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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 6

Sophia’s Place – Albuquerque, New Mexico – Closed

Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Sophia’s Place appeared in Season 5, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Not What You’d Expect,” which aired November 24, 2008, as an Albuquerque breakfast and lunch operation built around New Mexican-style Mexican food with the kind of scratch-made chile and homemade tortilla cooking that defines the state’s food identity. Both the original Sophia’s

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Lone Star Taqueria – Salt Lake City, Utah

Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, Utah

Manuel Valdez and his brother have been running Lone Star Taqueria on Fort Union Boulevard since 1994, building a loyal Salt Lake Valley following around carne adovada, fish tacos, and the kind of authentic Mexican cooking that Sunset magazine named the “West’s Best Taco.” Lone Star appeared in Season 4, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins

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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, Utah

Cemitas Puebla – Chicago, Illinois – Closed

Chicago, Illinois, Mexican, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 4

Tony Anteliz’s parents both came from the Mexican state of Puebla and raised him between Chicago and summers in Mexico, where he learned to love the city of Puebla’s food culture — particularly two items: the cemita sandwich and the taco arabe. He opened Taqueria Puebla in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, but the standard tacos

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Chicago, Illinois, Mexican, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 4

Tecolote Café – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

Breakfast, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3

Tecolote Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Regional Favorites,” aired March 24, 2008 — as a Santa Fe breakfast institution serving New Mexican-style food that reflected the deep culinary traditions of the region: green and red chile, huevos rancheros, posole, and the kind of morning cooking that defines

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Breakfast, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3

Red Iguana – Salt Lake City, Utah

Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, Utah

In 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated

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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, Utah

Roberto’s Mexican Food (Tortas Chano) – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

Roberto’s Mexican Food appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as an authentic Mexican restaurant in the Anthem area north of Phoenix serving the kind of homemade, scratch-made Mexican food that earned a DDD segment. The operation has since rebranded as Tortas

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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

California Tacos & More – Omaha, Nebraska

Mexican, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 5

California Tacos and More on California Street in Omaha has been serving authentic Mexican street-style tacos to the city’s south side since the 1970s, built around the kind of family recipe tacos that most of Omaha had never encountered at a neighborhood counter. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,

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Mexican, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 5
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