Beto’s Comida Latina appeared in Season 12, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Latin Street Food,” which aired October 10, 2011, as a San Antonio Latin and Puerto Rican restaurant serving the Caribbean island cooking traditions that are genuinely rare in Texas — mofongo, pernil, and the comfort food of the Puerto Rican table […]
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Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasIrazu on North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood has been the city’s only Costa Rican restaurant since it opened in 1991, serving the casados, gallo pinto, and the home cooking of Central America that Chicago’s Costa Rican community and the curious eaters who found Irazu have been coming back for over 30 years.
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Chilam Balam on North Broadway in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated Mexican restaurants since chef Rodrigo Monterrey opened it, building a menu around authentic regional Mexican cooking that goes well beyond the Tex-Mex and generic Mexican-American cuisine that most Chicago neighborhoods had access to. It appeared in Season 12,
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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Zydeco’s on East Main Street in Mooresville has been bringing authentic Cajun and Creole cooking to a small Morgan County Indiana town that had no business having this good a Louisiana restaurant, and yet here it is. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Homemade and Homebrewed,” which aired October
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Indiana, Restaurants, Season 12Tampa Bay Brewing Company on East 8th Avenue in Ybor City has been one of Tampa’s anchor craft breweries since it opened, combining a serious brewing program with a scratch-made pub food kitchen in the historic Latin Quarter neighborhood that built Tampa’s identity. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Florida, Gastropub, Restaurants, Season 12, TampaMemphis Taproom appeared in Season 11, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pub, Grub and More,” which aired January 3, 2011, as a Philadelphia Kensington neighborhood gastropub serving creative scratch-made bar food and a serious craft beer selection in a neighborhood that was in the early stages of what would become a significant restaurant
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Gastropub, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 11Sage General Store appeared in Season 11, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Funky Finds,” which aired January 17, 2011, as a Long Island City farm-to-table cafe and market building a creative American comfort food menu around locally sourced ingredients in a Queens neighborhood that was rapidly becoming one of the city’s most interesting
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American, New York, Restaurants, Season 11Q Fanatic BBQ in Champlin has been making a strong case for the Twin Cities northern suburbs as a serious BBQ destination since it opened, smoking brisket, ribs, and pork over real wood with the low-and-slow commitment that earns a regional reputation in a market where BBQ is not assumed to be the local specialty.
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Barbecue, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 11Tortilla Cafe on 7th Street SE on Capitol Hill has been serving authentic Salvadoran and Latin American food to the D.C. community since it opened, building a loyal following around pupusas, tamales, and the kind of from-scratch Central American cooking that is rare even in a city as culinarily diverse as Washington. It appeared in
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Restaurants, Season 11, Washington DCPicabu Neighborhood Bistro appeared in Season 11, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Quirky Classics,” which aired January 24, 2011, as a Spokane neighborhood bistro serving creative American comfort food with a locally sourced, scratch-made approach that earned a DDD segment in a city developing a strong independent restaurant identity. The restaurant has since
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