The 11th Street Diner started its life in 1948 when the Paramount Dining Car Company of Haledon, New Jersey built an Art Deco aluminum-sided diner and shipped it to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It operated there for 44 years before being dismantled, transported to Miami Beach, and reassembled in the heart of the South Beach Art Deco […]
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Diner, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Willie Benedetti raised turkeys. Then he turned those turkeys into a restaurant that became a Sonoma County institution. Willie Bird’s Restaurant in Santa Rosa, California appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007 — and it was the perfect fit for that episode. The man
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Scully’s Tavern appeared in Season 3, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Something Different,” aired April 14, 2008 — as a Miami pub and bar kitchen serving food well above the standard tavern fare. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Scully’s TavernCity: Miami, FloridaCuisine: Pub / Bar FoodDDD Season: 3DDD
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Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Cookie Giannini opened Dot’s Back Inn in 1990 and named it after her Aunt Dot, a server who waited tables for nearly 50 years. In 2007, Jimmy Tsamouras — a longtime friend of Cookie’s son and a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef who had cooked in kitchens in Hawaii, New York, Arizona, and Hilton Head
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Restaurants, Season 3, VirginiaSonny Knight’s parents had operated a hot dog stand in Lesage, West Virginia decades before Sonny himself took up the family tradition. In 1999, he and his wife Sharie — a West Virginia hillbilly and a California city girl, as they always described themselves — built a 12×16 foot shack on the bank of the
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Restaurants, Season 3, West VirginiaYJ’s Snack Bar appeared in Season 3, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “A World of Flavors,” aired April 7, 2008 — as an eclectic, Latin-influenced Kansas City dive bar kitchen serving creative food well outside the standard bar menu. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: YJ’s Snack BarCity: Kansas
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Kansas City, Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3Mike’s City Diner has been a South End institution since Chef Jay Hajj opened it in 1995, and it didn’t take long for the rest of the country to catch up to what Boston already knew. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007
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Comfort Food, Diner, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Season 2Pescadero, California is a small coastal town on San Mateo County’s coast, the kind of place you drive through on the way to somewhere else until you find out about Duarte’s Tavern. Open since 1894, it appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 —
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2In November 1990, Frank and Eve Collins opened a 1,000-square-foot restaurant in north Phoenix with seating for 16 and a menu that blended Chinese cooking, Mexican cooking, and Jamaican cooking into something that had no name and no precedent. Eve’s Chinese heritage and their shared Arizona roots were the starting point. The result was Chino
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Arizona, Chinese, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Vinita, Oklahoma is a small town on Route 66 that most travelers pass through without stopping. Clanton’s Café, sitting at 319 E. Illinois Ave. since 1927, is the reason to stop. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 — and brought something to
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