Chuck’s Southern Comforts Cafe on West 79th Street in Burbank has been bringing the flavors of the American South to the Chicago southwest suburbs since it opened, serving fried chicken, smoked ribs, and the soul food and BBQ traditions that earn a suburban restaurant a destination reputation across the region. It appeared in Season 12,
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Barbecue, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12Rigoletto Italian Bakery and Cafe on Upton Drive in Virginia Beach has been bringing authentic Italian baking to the Hampton Roads community since it opened, producing house-baked breads, pastries, and the Italian cafe food that earns a loyal following in a market with very few genuine alternatives. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 10 of
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Restaurants, Season 12, VirginiaTaco Taco Cafe on East Hildebrand Avenue in San Antonio has been serving the breakfast taco that defines the city’s morning food culture since it opened — fresh tortillas, house-made fillings, and the kind of from-scratch Mexican breakfast that San Antonio does better than anywhere else in the country. It appeared in Season 12, Episode
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Mexican, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasTortilleria Nixtamal on 47th Avenue in Corona, Queens has been doing something almost nobody else in New York City does — making tortillas the traditional way, from nixtamalized corn masa ground in house, rather than from commercial masa flour. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Latin Street Food,” which
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New York, Restaurants, Season 12Beto’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, TampaZest! Exciting Food Creations appeared in Season 12, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Bar Food and Bon Bons,” which aired May 9, 2011, as an Indianapolis American cafe building a creative vegetarian and comfort food menu that brought exciting, quality-forward food to a city that appreciated it. The restaurant has since permanently closed.
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