Captain Chuck-A-Muck’s sits on Marina Road in Rescue, Virginia, along the James River in Isle of Wight County, and the setting alone is worth the drive: a waterfront seafood shack where the boats come in and the fish on your plate reflects whatever was fresh that morning. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 4 of […]
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Restaurants, Seafood, Season 4, VirginiaGalewood Cook Shack appeared in Season 2, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Off the Hook Specials,” aired January 20, 2008 — as a Chicago BBQ and food truck operation that earned its DDD segment with straightforward, no-frills smoked meat. The operation has since closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Galewood Cook ShackCity: Chicago, IllinoisCuisine:
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Barbecue, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2G&A Restaurant was originally a Baltimore institution, operating on Eastern Avenue in the Highlandtown neighborhood for decades before relocating. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers and Dogs,” which aired July 28, 2008, at its original Baltimore location, where it had been serving Eastern European-influenced comfort food including kielbasa,
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Burgers, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 4Blue Plate Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as a viewer-nominated Salt Lake City diner serving creative American comfort food with a scratch-made approach that earned its spot in the episode. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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American, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahBroadway Diner on Eastern Avenue in Baltimore is one of those diners that announces itself before you get close: a large chrome building sitting up on a small hill, glimmering with neon and rounded corners like a monument to the American diner era. The interior is just as large, with two separate dining rooms and
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American, Baltimore, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 4Guy Fieri has said that The Fly Trap in Ferndale, Michigan was one of the first restaurants he saw when he started watching his own show — and that it was fabulous. That’s a meaningful line from someone who has been inside thousands of restaurants, and it tracks with what Delish confirmed when they named
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American, Michigan, Restaurants, Season 2Town Talk Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as one of the viewer-nominated stops in an episode driven entirely by fan recommendations. The diner occupied a building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis that had housed a bar since
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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Brad Orrison was dumpster diving in Oxford, Mississippi when he had the idea. Knee deep in discarded hardwood flooring, he decided he was going to build himself a BBQ joint out of all the junk he’d collected. He moved back to Ocean Springs, enlisted his sister Brooke and his brother Brett, and hammered and nailed
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Barbecue, Mississippi, Restaurants, Season 3Stretch is a sculptor. He opened his studio in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District in 1992, improvised a bar from an I-beam for a handful of friends, and spent the next twelve years building a community before the first Grinders restaurant was born. The inspiration was simple: he missed Philadelphia cheesesteaks and New York-style pizza
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Kansas City, Missouri, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 2Pete and Jenny Breen moved to New Orleans and took to BBQ the way transplants to the city tend to take to whatever they fall in love with: completely. They opened The Joint in 2004 on Poland Avenue in the Bywater District and built a reputation that put them on Bon Appétit and Zagat top
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