California Tacos and More on California Street in Omaha has been serving authentic Mexican street-style tacos to the city’s south side since the 1970s, built around the kind of family recipe tacos that most of Omaha had never encountered at a neighborhood counter. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Mexican, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 5In 1992, Gary Zemola bought a fully restored vintage food truck that he had seen years earlier in a painting in John Baeder’s 1978 book “Diners.” The truck had been sitting idle at a fire station. Zemola tracked it down, brought it back to life, and began operating Super Duper Weenie from it seasonally around
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Connecticut, Restaurants, Season 5Kelly O’Connor grew up in a huge family around kitchens, not cooking school. She had no formal culinary training when she opened Kelly O’s Diner on Perry Highway in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. What she had was a handful of family recipes — including her grandmother’s haluski — and the conviction to build a neighborhood diner
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Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 5Joe Obegi opened Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco’s Excelsior District in 1965, when burgers were $0.40. He ran it until March 16, 2014 — 49 years, same owner, same address, same philosophy — when he closed the doors to retire rather than sell to someone who might compromise the quality.
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 2Joey K’s Restaurant and Bar started as Tony’s in the 1970s, one block from its current location on the corner of Seventh and Magazine Street in the Garden District. It has been under the name Joey K’s since the transition that brought it to this address, and it has been serving the same New Orleans
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Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Season 5, SouthernCecilia Baca opened Cecilia’s Cafe in 1999 on the corner of 6th Street and Silver Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, naming it after herself and building the menu around the New Mexican food she learned from her grandmother’s kitchen. She is one of twelve siblings and traces her cooking directly to her family’s traditions, including a
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Albuquerque, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5The Highlander appeared in Season 4, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Bar Food,” which aired July 27, 2008, as an Atlanta pub and bar kitchen serving food that punched well above the standard bar menu. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: The HighlanderCity: Atlanta, GeorgiaCuisine: Pub and Bar FoodDDD Season:
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Atlanta, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 4Dixie Quick’s Magnolia Room was originally featured in the Omaha, Nebraska area before relocating to Council Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Missouri River. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Where the Locals Eat,” which aired August 4, 2008, as an eclectic Southern and Cajun kitchen that brought bold, unexpected
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Iowa, Restaurants, Season 4, SouthernThe Nook has been a St. Paul institution since 1938 — which means it was already a 62-year-old neighborhood landmark when Ted Casper and Mike Runyon bought it in 2000 at age 20. The two co-owners, whose fathers are best friends, took the keys and turned an already beloved burger joint into one of the
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Burgers, Gastropub, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 2Captain Chuck-A-Muck’s sits on Marina Road in Rescue, Virginia, along the James River in Isle of Wight County, and the setting alone is worth the drive: a waterfront seafood shack where the boats come in and the fish on your plate reflects whatever was fresh that morning. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 4 of
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