In October 2006, Pat Martin walked past his favorite Mexican restaurant in Nolensville and found it had closed. He ran into the landlord on the spot, signed a lease on the 950-square-foot shack, and opened Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint with no restaurant experience and a consuming passion for West Tennessee whole hog barbecue he had learned […]
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 9, TennesseeVirgil’s Cafe appeared in Season 9, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Porkapalooza,” which aired May 24, 2010, as a Bellevue, Kentucky Cajun and Creole restaurant bringing the bold flavors of Louisiana to the Cincinnati suburbs across the Ohio River — gumbo, étouffée, and the scratch-made Southern Louisiana cooking that was otherwise hard to
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Comfort Food, Kentucky, Restaurants, Season 9At Last Cafe appeared in Season 9, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Porkapalooza,” which aired May 24, 2010, as a Long Beach New American comfort food restaurant building a creative menu around pork and seasonal ingredients with the kind of neighborhood restaurant warmth that earns a loyal local following. The restaurant has since
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Califonia, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 9Murphy’s Bar and Grill on Merchant Street in downtown Honolulu has been the city’s Irish pub since Don Murphy opened it in 1987, serving the classic Irish-American pub food alongside the kind of comfort food menu that makes Murphy’s the place downtown Honolulu workers end up after work and tourists end up when they venture
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Comfort Food, Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Season 9Rob Crenshaw spent time surfing the California coast and fell in love with the Baja-style fish tacos he found at taco stands near the water — the kind of fresh, simple, California-Mexico border cooking that doesn’t exist in Charlotte. So in 2001 he brought it there himself. Cabo Fish Taco on North Davidson Street in
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Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 9Cafe Citti on Sonoma Highway in Kenwood sits in the middle of Wine Country and makes no attempt to be a Wine Country restaurant — it is a casual Italian trattoria where the rotisserie chicken spins in the window, the pasta is made in house, and the prices reflect a kitchen that wants to feed
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Califonia, Italian, Restaurants, Season 9Gloria’s Cafe on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles has been serving authentic Salvadoran and Latin food since Gloria opened it, building a loyal following around pupusas, tamales, and the home cooking of El Salvador that is rare even in Los Angeles’s expansive Latin food landscape. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 913 Gypsies on Stockton Street in Jacksonville’s Riverside neighborhood has been bringing Spanish tapas and creative pasta to a city that didn’t have much of either since chef-owner Eunice Trotti opened it, building a menu around the bold flavors of the Iberian Peninsula executed with genuine skill in a small, intimate dining room. It appeared
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Florida, Restaurants, Season 9, SpanishNorth End Caffe on Highland Avenue in Manhattan Beach has been a South Bay institution since it opened, serving creative scratch-made breakfast and brunch in a neighborhood that appreciates both the beach proximity and the quality of what’s on the plate. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Surf ‘n
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Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 9Germaine’s Luau on Oahu’s west coast has been running traditional Hawaiian luaus for visitors since 1972, combining the ali’i (royal) traditions of the imu — the underground oven where the kalua pig is cooked — with the ocean-front luau experience that gives visitors a genuine taste of Hawaiian cultural food traditions. It appeared in Season
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