Gus Tselios grew up with big Greek family diners in New York and moved to Georgia with a plan to build something similar in the South. He succeeded by a considerable margin. Marietta Diner sits on Cobb Parkway just outside Atlanta and serves nearly 3,000 people a day from a 500-item menu, 24 hours a […]
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Diner, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 3Five guys who loved food and were passionate about BBQ opened Smoque in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood in 2006. Within a year, Guy Fieri was there. That’s how fast word travels when the food is right. Smoque appeared in Season 2, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Real Deal BBQ,” aired November
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Barbecue, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2There is no dining room. There is no fancy signage. Jay Bee’s Bar-B-Que in Gardena, California operates out of what can only be described as a shack on the median of South Avalon Boulevard — and it has been one of the most respected BBQ operations in Los Angeles for decades. It appeared in Season
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Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Guy Fieri described The Village Café as “part dive, part bar, but all neighborhood joint.” That’s a precise description of what has been going on at 1001 West Grace Street in Richmond’s Fan District since 1956. The Village Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Neighborhood Joints,” aired March
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American, Restaurants, Season 3, VirginiaThee Pitts Again appeared in Season 3, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Neighborhood Joints,” aired March 31, 2008 — as a Glendale, Arizona BBQ operation earning its DDD segment with serious smoked meat. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Thee Pitts AgainCity: Glendale, ArizonaCuisine: BBQDDD Season: 3DDD Episode: 4Episode
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Arizona, Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 3Mike’s Chili Parlor has been at the corner of Ballard Way in Seattle since 1922. That’s not a typo. Over 100 years in the same neighborhood, serving the same closely guarded chili recipe, from a building that has watched Ballard transform around it while refusing to change along with it. It appeared in Season 2,
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Restaurants, Season 2, WashingtonIndian Rocks Beach sits on a narrow barrier island on Florida’s Gulf Coast, a short drive from Clearwater and St. Pete, and Keegan’s Seafood Grille has been the locals’ go-to for fresh Gulf seafood since 1985. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Seaside Eats,” aired October 15, 2007
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Florida, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 2Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge was not a place you stumbled into by accident. The tiki bar on the Mississippi River in northeast Minneapolis was a full-blown experience: tropical drinks, pizza, fire-lit torches, waterfront seating, zombie slushies, and enough tiki kitsch to make your eyes work hard just to take it all in. It appeared in
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American, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 2One block from the beach in Ocean Beach, San Diego, Hodad’s has been doing burgers its own way since 1969. No shoes, no shirt, no problem. The walls are covered floor to ceiling in license plates sent in by customers from every corner of the country. The booths are plastered in stickers. There is a
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2White Palace Grill has been open every single day since 1939. Not most days. Every day. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, around the clock, for going on 87 years. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Open 24/7,” aired January 13, 2008 — and Guy Fieri found
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