Cuisines

Jamie’s Broadway Grille – Sacramento, California

Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Sacramento, Season 6

Jamie’s Broadway Grille on Broadway in Sacramento has been serving BBQ and American grill food to the Oak Park and Midtown neighborhoods since owner Jamie Butturff opened it as a neighborhood restaurant committed to quality sourcing and scratch cooking. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Funky Joints,” which aired […]

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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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Mustache Bill’s Diner – Barnegat Light, New Jersey

Breakfast, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 2

Bill Smith started at Mustache Bill’s Diner as a dishwasher at age 14, when it was still called the Barnegat Light Diner. He bought it in 1972 and ran it for over 50 years. He never bought anything pre-made. He cracked whole eggs instead of using liquid egg cartons. He made gravy the old-fashioned way,

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Louie’s – Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Gastropub, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5, Texas

Louie’s on North Henderson Avenue in Dallas has been a Lower Greenville neighborhood fixture serving pizza, pub food, and Italian-American comfort food to a community of regulars who have been coming since the restaurant opened. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Favorites,” which aired March 23, 2009. Guy

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Giusti’s – Walnut Grove, California – Closed

Califonia, Restaurants, Season 5, Steakhouse

Giusti’s in Walnut Grove appeared in Season 5, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Favorites,” which aired March 23, 2009, as a Sacramento Delta institution that had been serving Italian-American steakhouse food to generations of boaters, hunters, and locals since 1912, making it one of the oldest restaurants in California at the time

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Krazy Jim’s Blimpy Burger – Ann Arbor, Michigan – Closed

Burgers, Michigan, Restaurants, Season 2

Ann Arbor’s oldest hamburger stand has been grinding its own chuck daily since Jim Shafer opened it in 1953 at 551 South Division Street, a short walk from the University of Michigan campus. Rich Magner started working there as a student in 1969, left, came back in 1993, and bought the business. The ordering system

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Bert’s Burger Bowl – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

Burgers, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Bert’s Burger Bowl appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Kinds of Fast Food,” which aired March 16, 2009, as a Santa Fe burger stand serving the kind of honest, no-frills green chile cheeseburger that New Mexico does better than anywhere else in the country. The restaurant has since permanently

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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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