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The Original Vito & Nick’s Pizzeria – Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5

Vito and Nick Barraco opened their pizzeria on South Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side in 1932, originally as a tavern that served food. The pizza program became the focus over time, and Vito and Nick’s developed one of the most distinctive styles in Chicago: a thin, crispy, cracker-like crust cut into squares rather than […]

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Pizzeria Luigi – San Diego, California

Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5

Pizzeria Luigi on 25th Street in San Diego’s Golden Hill neighborhood has been making New York-style pizza by the slice since 1992, run by Luigi Agostini who left his native Italy and eventually landed in Southern California with a determination to make pizza the way he grew up eating it. It appeared in Season 5,

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BOP Brick Oven Pizza – Baltimore, Maryland – Closed

Baltimore, Maryland, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 4

BOP Brick Oven Pizza appeared in Season 4, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Big Flavor,” which aired September 29, 2008, as a Baltimore wood-fired pizza operation producing the kind of brick oven pizza that stands apart from the city’s standard pie offerings. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: BOP Brick

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La Piazza Al Forno – Glendale, Arizona

Arizona, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6

La Piazza Al Forno in historic downtown Glendale has been making Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza in a neighborhood a block from Murphy Park since opening, producing the kind of thin-crust, blistered, properly charred pizza that almost never shows up in the Phoenix suburbs. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A

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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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Grinders Pizza – Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 2

Stretch 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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