YJ’s Snack Bar appeared in Season 3, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “A World of Flavors,” aired April 7, 2008 — as an eclectic, Latin-influenced Kansas City dive bar kitchen serving creative food well outside the standard bar menu. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: YJ’s Snack BarCity: Kansas […]
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Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3Mike’s City Diner has been a South End institution since Chef Jay Hajj opened it in 1995, and it didn’t take long for the rest of the country to catch up to what Boston already knew. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007
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Comfort Food, Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 2Pescadero, California is a small coastal town on San Mateo County’s coast, the kind of place you drive through on the way to somewhere else until you find out about Duarte’s Tavern. Open since 1894, it appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 —
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2In November 1990, Frank and Eve Collins opened a 1,000-square-foot restaurant in north Phoenix with seating for 16 and a menu that blended Chinese cooking, Mexican cooking, and Jamaican cooking into something that had no name and no precedent. Eve’s Chinese heritage and their shared Arizona roots were the starting point. The result was Chino
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Arizona, Chinese, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Vinita, Oklahoma is a small town on Route 66 that most travelers pass through without stopping. Clanton’s Café, sitting at 319 E. Illinois Ave. since 1927, is the reason to stop. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 — and brought something to
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American, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 2The BBQ Shack in Paola, Kansas started in 1997 with a whiskey barrel, a smoker, and a batch of wings that quickly built a reputation across the Kansas City area. By 2006 it had grown into a brick-and-mortar restaurant. By 2007 Guy Fieri showed up for Season 2, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
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Barbecue, Kansas, Restaurants, Season 2Daddypops opened in 1953 and has not tried very hard to update itself since. The single-room diner in Hatboro, Pennsylvania — one row of barstools, two antique barber chairs anchoring each end of the counter, vintage memorabilia on every wall including a portrait of Guy Fieri — is a Back to the Future moment for
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Breakfast, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 3Gus Tselios grew up with big Greek family diners in New York and moved to Georgia with a plan to build something similar in the South. He succeeded by a considerable margin. Marietta Diner sits on Cobb Parkway just outside Atlanta and serves nearly 3,000 people a day from a 500-item menu, 24 hours a
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Diner, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 3Five guys who loved food and were passionate about BBQ opened Smoque in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood in 2006. Within a year, Guy Fieri was there. That’s how fast word travels when the food is right. Smoque appeared in Season 2, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Real Deal BBQ,” aired November
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Barbecue, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2There is no dining room. There is no fancy signage. Jay Bee’s Bar-B-Que in Gardena, California operates out of what can only be described as a shack on the median of South Avalon Boulevard — and it has been one of the most respected BBQ operations in Los Angeles for decades. It appeared in Season
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