Havana Hideout appeared in Season 6, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Bit of Everywhere,” which aired April 20, 2009, as a Lake Worth, Florida Cuban and Latin restaurant bringing the flavors of the Caribbean to the Palm Beach area with an authenticity that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since […]
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Cuban, Florida, Restaurants, Season 6Andy Ricker spent years traveling and eating in northern Thailand before opening Pok Pok in 2005 as a tiny shack in his front yard on SE Division Street in Portland, serving Vietnamese-style fish sauce chicken wings and the regional Thai food of Chiang Mai that most Americans had never encountered. The restaurant grew from that
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7, ThaiTap Tap Haitian Restaurant appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired October 5, 2009, as a Miami Beach Haitian restaurant bringing the authentic flavors of Haitian cuisine to South Beach — griot, legim, plantains, and the piquant Scotch bonnet-fired cooking of the Caribbean nation
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, 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, TexasMom’s Tamales appeared in Season 7, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Picked ‘Em,” which aired September 7, 2009, as a Los Angeles tamale operation building hand-made tamales from family recipes in the tradition that defines the dish at its best. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Mom’s TamalesCity: Los
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 7Peter Eischen opened a saloon in Okarche in 1896, eleven years before Oklahoma became a state. It closed for Prohibition, reopened in the 1930s under his son and grandson, and somewhere in the 1960s George “Boog” Eischen — who also worked as a butcher at the IGA next door — pan-fried a chicken in a
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Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 7Whale’s Rib on NE 2nd Street in Deerfield Beach has been a South Florida seafood institution since it opened in 1981, serving fresh fish the way a South Florida seafood shack should: simply, generously, and without pretension. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Only At This Joint,” which aired
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Florida, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 7Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine appeared in Season 7, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Only At This Joint,” which aired August 31, 2009, as a Boise restaurant that leaned fully into its trailer park theme while delivering scratch-made comfort food that was anything but low-rent. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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Boise, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7Rodney Muirhead grew up in Texas, moved to Portland, and got tired of not being able to find Texas-style BBQ. In 2006 he opened Podnah’s Pit Barbecue on NE Killingsworth and started smoking brisket, ribs, and sausage over oak and pecan the way he grew up eating it. Portland took notice immediately. Podnah’s appeared in
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Barbecue, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7La Texanita on Sebastopol Road in Santa Rosa has been serving Sonoran and northern Mexican food to Sonoma County since it opened, building a reputation around carne asada, birria, and the kind of regional Mexican cooking that reflects the traditions of the Mexican state of Sonora rather than a generic Tex-Mex menu. It appeared in
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