Most steakhouses are just steakhouses. Alpine Steakhouse in Sarasota, Florida is a steakhouse, a butcher shop, a specialty grocery, a German deli, and the place that introduced Guy Fieri to the Turducken — a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, twelve hours in the oven, and one of the most elaborate things ever served […]
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Florida, Restaurants, Season 2, SteakhouseLittle Tea Shop appeared in Season 3, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Classics,” aired May 12, 2008 — as a Memphis downtown lunch institution serving Southern soul food the way it was meant to be served: scratch-made, generous, and deeply rooted in the regional cooking tradition that makes Memphis food culture
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Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, TennesseeThe 11th Street Diner started its life in 1948 when the Paramount Dining Car Company of Haledon, New Jersey built an Art Deco aluminum-sided diner and shipped it to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It operated there for 44 years before being dismantled, transported to Miami Beach, and reassembled in the heart of the South Beach Art Deco
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Diner, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Willie Benedetti raised turkeys. Then he turned those turkeys into a restaurant that became a Sonoma County institution. Willie Bird’s Restaurant in Santa Rosa, California appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007 — and it was the perfect fit for that episode. The man
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Mike’s City Diner has been a South End institution since Chef Jay Hajj opened it in 1995, and it didn’t take long for the rest of the country to catch up to what Boston already knew. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007
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Comfort Food, Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 2Pescadero, California is a small coastal town on San Mateo County’s coast, the kind of place you drive through on the way to somewhere else until you find out about Duarte’s Tavern. Open since 1894, it appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 —
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2In November 1990, Frank and Eve Collins opened a 1,000-square-foot restaurant in north Phoenix with seating for 16 and a menu that blended Chinese cooking, Mexican cooking, and Jamaican cooking into something that had no name and no precedent. Eve’s Chinese heritage and their shared Arizona roots were the starting point. The result was Chino
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Arizona, Chinese, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Vinita, Oklahoma is a small town on Route 66 that most travelers pass through without stopping. Clanton’s Café, sitting at 319 E. Illinois Ave. since 1927, is the reason to stop. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 — and brought something to
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American, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 2The BBQ Shack in Paola, Kansas started in 1997 with a whiskey barrel, a smoker, and a batch of wings that quickly built a reputation across the Kansas City area. By 2006 it had grown into a brick-and-mortar restaurant. By 2007 Guy Fieri showed up for Season 2, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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Barbecue, Kansas, Restaurants, Season 2Daddypops opened in 1953 and has not tried very hard to update itself since. The single-room diner in Hatboro, Pennsylvania — one row of barstools, two antique barber chairs anchoring each end of the counter, vintage memorabilia on every wall including a portrait of Guy Fieri — is a Back to the Future moment for
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