Lucky’s Cafe on Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood has been one of the city’s most beloved brunch destinations since Heather Haviland opened it in 2002, building a menu around seasonal local ingredients and scratch-made breakfast and lunch plates in a neighborhood that was already becoming one of Cleveland’s most interesting food corridors. It appeared
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Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 7Pizzalchik appeared in Season 7, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Barbequed, Baked and Brined,” which aired October 12, 2009, as a Boise fast food pizza operation combining the pizza and chicken concepts in a format that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: PizzalchikCity: Boise, IdahoCuisine: Pizza
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Boise, Idaho, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 7Honky Tonk BBQ on South Racine in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood has been smoking low-and-slow since it opened, bringing serious Southern BBQ to a Mexican-American neighborhood that appreciated the food immediately and made it a local institution. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Barbequed, Baked and Brined,” which aired October
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Barbecue, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7Niko Niko’s on Montrose Boulevard has been a Houston institution since Niko Pappas opened it in 1977, serving Greek food to a city that didn’t know it needed a neighborhood Greek restaurant until it had one. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired
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Greek, Houston, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, TexasHavana Hideout appeared in Season 6, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Bit of Everywhere,” which aired April 20, 2009, as a Lake Worth, Florida Cuban and Latin restaurant bringing the flavors of the Caribbean to the Palm Beach area with an authenticity that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since
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Cuban, Florida, Restaurants, Season 6Andy Ricker spent years traveling and eating in northern Thailand before opening Pok Pok in 2005 as a tiny shack in his front yard on SE Division Street in Portland, serving Vietnamese-style fish sauce chicken wings and the regional Thai food of Chiang Mai that most Americans had never encountered. The restaurant grew from that
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 7, ThaiTap Tap Haitian Restaurant appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired October 5, 2009, as a Miami Beach Haitian restaurant bringing the authentic flavors of Haitian cuisine to South Beach — griot, legim, plantains, and the piquant Scotch bonnet-fired cooking of the Caribbean nation
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 7Ziggy Gruber is the third generation of a New York deli family who moved to Houston and opened Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in 1999, determined to bring the full New York Jewish deli experience — towering sandwiches, house-cured pastrami, matzo ball soup, knishes, cheesecake — to a city that had never had the
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Houston, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7, TexasMom’s Tamales appeared in Season 7, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Picked ‘Em,” which aired September 7, 2009, as a Los Angeles tamale operation building hand-made tamales from family recipes in the tradition that defines the dish at its best. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Mom’s TamalesCity: Los
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 7Peter Eischen opened a saloon in Okarche in 1896, eleven years before Oklahoma became a state. It closed for Prohibition, reopened in the 1930s under his son and grandson, and somewhere in the 1960s George “Boog” Eischen — who also worked as a butcher at the IGA next door — pan-fried a chicken in a
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