Bob’s Clam Hut on US Route 1 in Kittery has been the first real Maine seafood stop for anyone driving up from the south since it opened in 1956, serving fried clams, lobster rolls, and the New England seafood shack experience in a setting that has never needed to be anything more than what it
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Maine, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 10Tune Inn Restaurant and Bar on Pennsylvania Avenue SE has been a Capitol Hill institution since it opened in 1947, serving burgers, bar food, and cold beer to the staffers, lobbyists, journalists, and neighborhood regulars who make up the Capitol Hill community. It appeared in Season 10, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Tried
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Burgers, Gastropub, Restaurants, Season 10, Washington DCMama Cozza’s on West Ball Road in Anaheim has been serving Italian-American comfort food to Orange County since it opened in 1967, building a multi-generational following around house-made pasta, lasagna, and the kind of red-sauce Italian cooking that earns a family restaurant its neighborhood anchor status across six decades. It appeared in Season 10, Episode
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Califonia, Italian, Restaurants, Season 10Hillbilly Hot Dogs on Ohio River Road in Lesage is one of the great American roadside spectacles — a converted school bus, a double-decker outhouse, a tiny space crammed with West Virginia kitsch, and hot dogs that have been earning a national reputation since Sonny Knight and Sharie Harless opened it in 2002. It appeared
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Restaurants, Season 10, West VirginiaGordy’s Hi-Hat on Sunnyside Drive in Cloquet is one of the most beloved roadside drive-ins in Minnesota, a classic 1960s carhop stand that has been serving the same burgers, onion rings, and root beer floats since Gordy Lundquist opened it in 1960. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You
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Burgers, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 9Happy Gillis Cafe and Hangout appeared in Season 10, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Joints,” which aired August 30, 2010, as a Kansas City Columbus Park neighborhood cafe serving scratch-made American breakfast and lunch in a community-focused setting that earned its loyal following one thoughtfully prepared plate at a time. The restaurant
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American, Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 10Wasyl and Anna Kramarczuk fled Ukraine during World War II, settled in Minneapolis’s Northeast neighborhood, and in 1954 opened a Ukrainian and Eastern European delicatessen and sausage shop that has been a Minneapolis institution ever since. Three generations of the family have run it across seven decades, maintaining the house-made sausage program — kielbasa, bratwurst,
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 10Maine Diner on Post Road in Wells has been a New England institution since Dick Henry and his brother opened it in 1953, serving Maine seafood and classic American diner food to a loyal community of locals and the summer visitors who make the journey from Boston and beyond to the southern Maine coast. It
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Breakfast, Diner, Maine, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 9Southern Soul Barbeque on Demere Road in St. Simons Island has been serving low-country Georgia BBQ since Griffin Bufkin and his partners opened it in 2007, smoking meats over local hardwood and bringing the whole hog tradition of the Carolina and Georgia coasts to the Golden Isles. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 13 of
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Barbecue, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 9Jack Arnold started his restaurant career as a dishwasher at age 12. He studied art at Vanderbilt University, managed the campus cafeteria, and in 1982 purchased a concrete block building on 8th Avenue South in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood, installed a steam table and a tray line, and named it Arnold’s Country Kitchen. His son Kahlil
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