Paradise Pup has been doing Chicago-style fast food the right way since 1985 from a small roadside shack on South River Road in Des Plaines, Illinois. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Family Owned,” aired November 23, 2007 — and Guy Fieri called the Char Cheddar Burger the […]
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Burgers, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2DeWese’s Tip Top Café has been on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio since 1938, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the city. The official name is DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe, though it is widely known simply as the Tip Top. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 3, TexasLos Tapatios started as a lunch truck on the side of the road in San Jose and upgraded to a full restaurant before Guy Fieri came looking. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “One of a Kind,” aired November 19, 2007 — as a place serving homemade authentic
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Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 2Sarah Simington grew up watching her mother Sherri work the diner counter, which gave her both the love of breakfast food and the knowledge of how to execute it properly. In 1996 the two of them opened the Blue Moon Café in Baltimore’s historic Fells Point neighborhood, and Sarah’s rock and roll personality went into
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Baltimore, Breakfast, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 3Ray Robinson opened Cozy Corner in Memphis in 1977 after years of perfecting his BBQ recipes at home in Colorado, where he and his wife Desiree had moved from Memphis before eventually returning. The Cornish game hen was on the menu from the beginning because, as Desiree explains it simply, “We liked it.” Cozy Corner
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeTom’s Bar-B-Q has been feeding Memphis from its New Getwell Road location for decades, operating as a classic neighborhood pit stop where the regulars know exactly what they’re getting and first-timers figure it out quickly. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “The Memphis BBQ Tour,” which aired May 26,
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Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, TennesseeMaria Corbalan started Taco Xpress in 1997 with her income tax refund, a little trailer, $500 cash, some dishes from her house, and a friend who painted the trailer real cute. For the first three months sales ran about $17 a day. Then a review in the Austin American-Statesman ran, and as Maria describes it:
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Austin, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 3, TexasIn 1967 Jim and Virginia Johnston built a ranch-style home on their farm in what would eventually become Gilbert, Arizona. They raised three sons there — Joe, Steve, and Paul — on land that had been farmed since 1927, when barren desert was cleared and irrigation made agriculture possible. By the time the Agritopia development
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American, Arizona, Burgers, Restaurants, Season 3The name alone earned Potterville, Michigan a spot in the Triple D history books. Joe’s Gizzard City appeared in Season 2, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “One of a Kind,” aired November 19, 2007 — and Guy Fieri got a quick lesson in what a gizzard actually is (a chicken’s second stomach,
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American, Michigan, Restaurants, Season 2In 1922 Leonard Heuberger traded a Model T Ford for a 7-stool sandwich stand in South Memphis and started selling chopped pork sandwiches for five cents. That modest beginning grew into what became, by the 1940s and 1950s, the world’s largest barbecue drive-in restaurant, with 20 car-hops working the canopied lot serving a daily parade
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