In 1922 Leonard Heuberger traded a Model T Ford for a 7-stool sandwich stand in South Memphis and started selling chopped pork sandwiches for five cents. That modest beginning grew into what became, by the 1940s and 1950s, the world’s largest barbecue drive-in restaurant, with 20 car-hops working the canopied lot serving a daily parade […]
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeEssex, Massachusetts sits at the edge of the Great Salt Marsh, and JT Farnham’s Seafood and Grill sits right at the edge of Essex with a view of Eben’s Creek and Choate Island that’s almost as good as what’s on the plate. Almost. The fried clams — whole belly, locally caught, battered with a recipe
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Massachusetts, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 2Chef Pete Blohme graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1986, spent 20 years cooking on cruise ships and in restaurants across the country — including a stint as Executive Chef of the University of Alabama — and opened a tiny sandwich shop in the French Quarter of downtown Fairhope, Alabama in February 2006.
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Alabama, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 3Bobo Drive-In has been operating in Topeka since 1948, making it one of the longest-running drive-ins in the state of Kansas. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “American Classics,” aired May 12, 2008 — as a genuine classic American drive-in serving the kind of burgers and fries that
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Burgers, Kansas, Restaurants, Season 3Most 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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