James “Big Jim” Bochicchio opened Big Jim’s in 1977 in the lower Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh — the area locals call “The Run” — with his mother’s recipes for Italian wedding soup, meatballs, and spaghetti sauce, and a conviction that portions should never leave anyone wondering if they got enough. Big Jim passed away in […]
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Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 5Tommy Harris was a popular young radio crooner on KFRC in San Francisco in the 1930s before moving to NBC. In 1947, he and partners Al Pollack and the Veprin family opened Tommy’s Joynt at the corner of Van Ness and Geary on Route 101, calling it “the most gorgeous joynt in S.F.” and welcoming
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Sandwiches, Season 5Luigi DiPasquale arrived from Corropoli in the Abruzzo region of Italy at age 14 and opened a small corner store on Claremont Street in Baltimore’s Highlandtown neighborhood in 1914. He sold chickens tied to the light pole out front, made his own bleach, and stocked groceries and household goods for the Italian immigrant community settling
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Maryland, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 5Tony Anteliz’s parents both came from the Mexican state of Puebla and raised him between Chicago and summers in Mexico, where he learned to love the city of Puebla’s food culture — particularly two items: the cemita sandwich and the taco arabe. He opened Taqueria Puebla in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, but the standard tacos
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Chicago, Illinois, Mexican, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 4Cafe Rolle appeared in Season 6, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Bit of Everywhere,” which aired April 20, 2009, as a Sacramento French sandwich and cafe operation bringing classic French preparations — fresh baguettes, charcuterie, and the kind of simple, quality-first French deli cooking that is exceedingly rare outside major metropolitan
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Califonia, French, Restaurants, Sacramento, Sandwiches, Season 6