Gloria’s Cafe on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles has been serving authentic Salvadoran and Latin food since Gloria opened it, building a loyal following around pupusas, tamales, and the home cooking of El Salvador that is rare even in Los Angeles’s expansive Latin food landscape. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 913 Gypsies on Stockton Street in Jacksonville’s Riverside neighborhood has been bringing Spanish tapas and creative pasta to a city that didn’t have much of either since chef-owner Eunice Trotti opened it, building a menu around the bold flavors of the Iberian Peninsula executed with genuine skill in a small, intimate dining room. It appeared
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Florida, Restaurants, Season 9, SpanishNorth End Caffe on Highland Avenue in Manhattan Beach has been a South Bay institution since it opened, serving creative scratch-made breakfast and brunch in a neighborhood that appreciates both the beach proximity and the quality of what’s on the plate. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Surf ‘n
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Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 9Germaine’s Luau on Oahu’s west coast has been running traditional Hawaiian luaus for visitors since 1972, combining the ali’i (royal) traditions of the imu — the underground oven where the kalua pig is cooked — with the ocean-front luau experience that gives visitors a genuine taste of Hawaiian cultural food traditions. It appeared in Season
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Hawaii, Restaurants, Season 8Hank’s Haute Dogs appeared in Season 8, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Triple D Goes Hawaiian,” which aired April 5, 2010, as a Honolulu hot dog operation run by Henry “Hank” Adaniya building specialty sausages with premium and unusual ingredients — foie gras, Kobe beef, alligator — into hot dogs that belonged nowhere
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Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Season 8Nicolas “Nico” Chaize is a classically trained French chef who opened Nico’s at Pier 38 next door to the Honolulu Fish Auction — the largest fresh tuna auction in the United States — which means his fish goes from the boat to the auction block to his kitchen in a matter of hours. It appeared
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Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 8The Toguchi family opened Highway Inn in 1947 in Waipahu, serving the authentic Hawaiian plate lunch food that had sustained the island’s plantation workers for generations — lau lau, kalua pig, lomi salmon, poi, and the dishes that are Hawaii’s culinary heritage rather than its tourist-facing presentation. Three generations and three locations later, the family
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Hawaii, Restaurants, Season 8Pier 23 Cafe sits on the Embarcadero waterfront at Pier 23, one of the oldest continuously operating restaurant locations on San Francisco Bay, with a history stretching back to the 1930s and a waterfront patio that makes it the right place to be on a sunny San Francisco afternoon. It appeared in Season 8, Episode
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Seafood, Season 8Dish Cafe and Catering appeared in Season 8, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Fresh and Funky,” which aired March 29, 2010, as a Reno cafe building a creative vegetarian and cafe menu that brought fresh, thoughtful food to a city better known for its casino buffets. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick
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Nevada, Restaurants, Season 8, VegetarianJimmy’s Diner appeared in Season 16, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Savory Sensations,” which aired January 14, 2013, as a Williamsburg, Brooklyn retro diner serving classic American breakfast and diner food in a neighborhood that was in the middle of one of the most dramatic demographic and culinary transformations in New York City’s
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