Sam LaGrassa’s on Province Street in downtown Boston has been making sandwiches since 1909, operating as a working-class lunch counter in the heart of the Financial District for over a century with a menu anchored by house-roasted meats, hand-carved on the spot. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Blast
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Boston, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7Ziggy Gruber is the third generation of a New York deli family who moved to Houston and opened Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in 1999, determined to bring the full New York Jewish deli experience — towering sandwiches, house-cured pastrami, matzo ball soup, knishes, cheesecake — to a city that had never had the
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Houston, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7, TexasSonny’s Famous Steak Hogies in Hollywood, Florida has been making Philadelphia-style cheesesteaks for South Florida since it opened, bringing the real thing to a state that has no shortage of sandwich shops but plenty of reason to appreciate one that gets the cheesesteak right. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Florida, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7Tommy Habetz was a serious chef — former sous chef at Mario Batali’s Lupa in New York — when he and Nick Wood decided to open a small sandwich shop in Portland in 2008. The name comes from Bunk Moreland, the detective from The Wire, and also functions as the owners calling out anyone in
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7James “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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