Jefferson Diner sits on Bowling Green Parkway in Lake Hopatcong, a lakeside community in Morris County, and it has been the community’s go-to diner for decades. It carries a 1950s-style design — chrome accents, neon touches, comfortable booths — and a menu that extends well beyond typical diner fare into Greek specialties, including moussaka and […]
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Diner, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 2Aunt Lena’s Creamery appeared in Season 4, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Brain Freeze,” which aired August 11, 2008, as an artisan gelato operation in Chandler, Arizona bringing Italian-style frozen desserts to the Phoenix area with house-made flavors well outside the standard gelato catalog. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:
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Arizona, Restaurants, Season 4At the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, a traveling salesman named Abe Doumar noticed an ice cream vendor about to turn away customers because he had run out of paper dishes. A nearby vendor was selling waffles. Doumar bought a waffle, rolled it into a cone, added ice cream, and changed the way America ate
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 4, VirginiaThe building that became White Manna Hamburgers was first built for the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows. It was purchased by Louis Bridges, moved to Hackensack, and opened on River Street in 1946. It has been there ever since — the same small stainless steel diner structure, the same flat-top grill, the
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Burgers, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 2Brandy’s Restaurant and Bakery on East Cedar Avenue in Flagstaff has been a Northern Arizona breakfast and bakery institution since owner Brandy opened it with a commitment to baking everything in house and building a morning menu around that from-scratch foundation. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Their Own
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Arizona, Bakery, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 6Matt and Judd Braun grew up in and on the water — surfing, diving, boating, and fishing the beaches and blue water of San Diego and Baja California. They went to Point Loma High with the sons and daughters of the city’s Portuguese fishing community. They worked on boats as commercial divers and knew, intimately,
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Diego, Seafood, Season 6Jamie’s Broadway Grille on Broadway in Sacramento has been serving BBQ and American grill food to the Oak Park and Midtown neighborhoods since owner Jamie Butturff opened it as a neighborhood restaurant committed to quality sourcing and scratch cooking. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Funky Joints,” which aired
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Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Sacramento, Season 6Hightstown Diner has been a gathering spot for the Hightstown community for decades — a classic New Jersey diner in the truest sense, where the coffee stays full, the service is fast, and the menu covers everything a diner should cover. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “The
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Diner, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 2Chef Franson Nwaeze opened Chef Point Cafe inside a car wash in Watauga, Texas — a detail that made it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. The “funky joint” framing was literal: a fine dining kitchen operating inside a functioning car wash, producing upscale comfort food and seafood
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Restaurants, Seafood, Season 6, TexasIn 1986, David Nast was a visual artist with a shoestring budget and a dream. He took a 1920s auto garage in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, enlisted a crew of artist friends, and transformed it into a restaurant that would reflect his personality in every corner: a vintage tandem bike suspended from the ceiling, an oversize
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