Seasons

Meat & Bread – Vancouver, British Columbia

Meat and Bread on Cambie Street in Vancouver has been one of the city’s most celebrated sandwich operations since it opened in 2010, building a focused menu around one or two perfectly executed porchetta sandwiches and the kind of single-minded sandwich quality that earns a fast-casual operation a national food media reputation. It appeared in […]

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Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 13

Norton’s Pastrami & Deli – Santa Barbara, California

Norton’s Pastrami and Deli on West Figueroa Street in downtown Santa Barbara has been a city deli institution since it opened, serving the hand-carved pastrami sandwiches, house-made soups, and the New York-style deli classics that are genuinely rare in a Southern California coastal city better known for avocado toast than a proper pastrami on rye.

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Califonia, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 13

Flip Flops Grill & Chill – Virginia Beach, Virginia

Flip Flops Grill and Chill on Upton Drive in Virginia Beach has been serving the kind of fresh seafood and casual pub food that earns a resort city restaurant its year-round loyal following since it opened, combining Virginia Beach’s access to fresh Atlantic seafood with a pub food menu that keeps the local community coming

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Gastropub, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 13, Virginia

Peaceful Restaurant – Vancouver, British Columbia

Peaceful Restaurant on West Broadway in Vancouver has been a city institution for authentic Chinese dumplings and noodles since it opened, building a reputation around the hand-folded dumplings, dan dan noodles, and the Northern Chinese cooking traditions that earn a Vancouver restaurant its multi-decade loyal following in a city with one of the most competitive

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Chinese, Restaurants, Season 13

Sidecar – Brooklyn, New York – Closed

Sidecar appeared in Season 13, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Matters,” which aired February 6, 2012, as a Park Slope, Brooklyn American pub and restaurant serving creative scratch-made bar food and comfort plates that earned a devoted neighborhood following in one of Brooklyn’s most food-conscious residential communities. The original Park Slope location

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American, Brooklyn, Gastropub, New York, Restaurants, Season 13

The Kitchen – Oxnard, California – Closed

The Kitchen appeared in Season 13, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Multitaskers,” which aired January 30, 2012, as an Oxnard American comfort food restaurant building a creative, eclectic scratch-made menu that earned its DDD segment in a Ventura County city with a strong agricultural community and a growing independent restaurant scene. The restaurant

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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 13

The Early Bird Diner – Charleston, South Carolina

The Early Bird Diner on Savannah Highway in Charleston has been serving the Southern breakfast and diner food that the city’s West Ashley community has built its morning routine around since it opened, with the kind of scratch-made biscuits, fried chicken, and classic diner plates that earn a neighborhood restaurant its loyal following across all

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Restaurants, Season 13, South Carolina, Southern

Mac’s Fish & Chip Shop – Santa Barbara, California – Closed

Mac’s Fish and Chip Shop appeared in Season 13, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Global Traditions,” which aired January 23, 2012, as a Santa Barbara British fish and chip shop serving properly battered fish, hand-cut chips, and the full British chip shop tradition in a California coastal city that appreciated having the real

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Califonia, Restaurants, Season 13

John’s of 12th Street – Manhattan, New York

John’s of 12th Street on East 12th Street in Manhattan’s East Village has been one of New York City’s most beloved Italian restaurants since it opened in 1908, serving red-sauce Italian food in a candlelit dining room that has barely changed in over a century of continuous operation. It appeared in Season 13, Episode 7

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Italian, New York, Restaurants, Season 13

Falconetti’s – Vancouver, British Columbia – Closed

Falconetti’s appeared in Season 13, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Meat Madness,” which aired January 16, 2012, as a Vancouver Commercial Drive neighborhood pub and restaurant serving creative house-made sausages and burgers with the scratch-made quality that earned it a devoted East Vancouver following. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:

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Burgers, Restaurants, Season 13
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