Town Talk Diner appeared in Season 4, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Diners You Sent Me To,” which aired July 14, 2008, as one of the viewer-nominated stops in an episode driven entirely by fan recommendations. The diner occupied a building on East Lake Street in Minneapolis that had housed a bar since […]
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American, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Brad Orrison was dumpster diving in Oxford, Mississippi when he had the idea. Knee deep in discarded hardwood flooring, he decided he was going to build himself a BBQ joint out of all the junk he’d collected. He moved back to Ocean Springs, enlisted his sister Brooke and his brother Brett, and hammered and nailed
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Barbecue, Mississippi, Restaurants, Season 3Stretch is a sculptor. He opened his studio in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District in 1992, improvised a bar from an I-beam for a handful of friends, and spent the next twelve years building a community before the first Grinders restaurant was born. The inspiration was simple: he missed Philadelphia cheesesteaks and New York-style pizza
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Kansas City, Missouri, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 2Pete and Jenny Breen moved to New Orleans and took to BBQ the way transplants to the city tend to take to whatever they fall in love with: completely. They opened The Joint in 2004 on Poland Avenue in the Bywater District and built a reputation that put them on Bon Appétit and Zagat top
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Barbecue, Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Season 3Benny’s Seafood Restaurant appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,” which aired June 30, 2008, as a family-run South Miami seafood operation serving fresh South Florida seafood in the tradition of the city’s immigrant fishing communities. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Benny’s Seafood RestaurantCity:
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Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 3Burger Bar in Roy, Utah has been a local institution since the 1950s, operating as a classic American drive-in and burger joint that serves the kind of honest, no-shortcuts burger that built the drive-in’s reputation as an American cultural institution. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,”
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Burgers, Restaurants, Season 3, UtahJoe Morozin launched his first diner in 1940 at age 16. Over the next two decades he opened and closed more than a dozen restaurants before landing in Northeast Philadelphia in 1960, where he opened the Torresdale Diner at 8828 Frankford Avenue. The name changed to The Dining Car in 1976, and a fire destroyed
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Diner, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 2In 1987, Gus Glava gave his daughter Donna and son-in-law Bob a pit beef stand as a wedding gift. It was a 12-by-15-foot shack in a parking lot on the east side of Baltimore, and Bob loved to cook, so the logic held. What Gus could not have predicted is that the wedding gift would
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Baltimore, Barbecue, Maryland, Restaurants, Season 3The Rivershack Tavern sits on River Road in Jefferson, a few miles upriver from New Orleans, with a patio that looks out toward the Mississippi and a kitchen that takes Cajun pub food seriously enough to build a reputation well beyond the neighborhood. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Gastropub, Louisiana, Restaurants, Season 3Studio Diner in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa neighborhood was not built to be a restaurant. It was built in the summer of 2003 as a film set next door to the 20-acre Stu Segall Productions facility — the same lot that hosted productions like Veronica Mars and Bring It On. At some point someone realized
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