The building that houses Charlie Parker’s Diner is a genuine World War II-era Quonset hut — a curved steel prefabricated military structure converted into one of Springfield’s most beloved breakfast and lunch spots. The diner has occupied the same 700 North Street address since 1991, when it was opened under the current name. Mike and […]
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American, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 3Manci’s Antique Club in Daphne, Alabama has been a Mobile Bay institution for decades, combining a restaurant, a bar, and a genuine antique collection into one building that feels unlike anywhere else on the Gulf Coast. The restaurant appeared in Season 4, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Better Than Ever,” which aired September
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Alabama, American, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 4Frank Tarleton opened The Colonnade in 1927 in a white-columned house at the corner of Lindbergh Drive and Piedmont Road in Atlanta, serving Southern comfort food to a city that knew exactly what it wanted from a neighborhood restaurant. In 1962 the operation moved to its current location on Cheshire Bridge Road NE, where it
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American, Atlanta, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 4, SouthernIn 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahThe name is a pun — a schooner is a 24-ounce chalice of beer — and it sets the tone for a breakfast and lunch spot that operates on Long Beach marina time, which is to say unhurried, waterfront, and worth the wait. Schooner or Later at Alamitos Harbor has been open since 1985, sitting
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American, Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Crystal Restaurant on Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh appeared in Season 4, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Taste of Everywhere,” which aired September 15, 2008, as a Lebanese and Mediterranean kitchen bringing authentic Middle Eastern cooking to Pittsburgh’s downtown dining scene. Also listed as Crystal on Penn, the restaurant earned its DDD
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Mediterranean, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4Cheryl Chin was raised in Kingston, Jamaica with four siblings and a father who told them all they were going to America and all going to college. She came in 1980 and has been running Jamaica Kitchen since 1986, having taken over from the family that started it. The restaurant opened in 1980 as a
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 4Bryant-Lake Bowl on West Lake Street in Minneapolis is a bowling alley, a theater, and a restaurant, all operating under one roof since 1993, and the combination works better than it has any right to. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008, as
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American, Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Smokey Valley Truck Stop appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as a Kentucky truck stop serving Southern comfort food the way truck stops used to before chains took over every highway exit. The operation has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:
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Kentucky, Restaurants, Season 3, SouthernSol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine started in 2003 with four employees selling at the San Rafael 4th Street Farmers’ Market. The food was so well received that a brick-and-mortar location followed in 2004, and the restaurant has since grown to four locations across Marin and Sonoma Counties. Sol Food appeared in Season 6, Episode 7
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