Psycho 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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Chicago, Diner, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 2There are seafood shacks and then there is Evelyn’s Drive-In. Sitting on the waterfront edge of Nanaquaket Pond in Tiverton, Rhode Island, this seasonal institution has been doing New England seafood the right way since 1969. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Seaside Eats,” aired October 15, 2007
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Restaurants, Rhode Island, Seafood, Season 2Baxter Springs, Kansas sits at the very bottom tip of the state where Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma meet, right on old Route 66. It is a small town with a big history, and for a stretch of years it had a restaurant inside a former bank building that could stop a road tripper cold. Café
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American, Comfort Food, Kansas, Restaurants, Season 2Route 66 has produced a lot of legendary stops over the decades, and Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Café in Victorville, California earns its place among the best of them. The pistachio green building at 17143 N. D St. has been feeding truck drivers, road-trippers, and High Desert locals since 1947, and it looked right at
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Breakfast, Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Ramona, California is the kind of small town that doesn’t make a lot of noise — which makes it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. Ramona Cafe has been on Main Street since 1936, serving San Diego County’s backcountry the kind of scratch-made comfort food that doesn’t need
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American, Califonia, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 2Some restaurants earn their place on the map. The Rock Café in Stroud, Oklahoma earned its place in history. Built in 1936 using sandstone left over from Route 66 road construction — purchased for five dollars — and opened in August 1939, it has been feeding travelers on the Mother Road ever since. It appeared
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American, Diner, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 2Since 1966, Falafel’s Drive-In has been doing one thing on Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose: making falafel the right way, from scratch, every single day. It showed up in Season 2, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Totally Fried,” aired October 1, 2007 — and Guy Fieri found exactly what the show
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Califonia, Middle Eastern, Restaurants, Season 2A vintage dining car built in 1927, sitting on Pine Street in San Francisco’s Polk Gulch neighborhood, serving Portuguese food until 4:00 AM. Guy Fieri called it one of the most unique diners he’d ever come across in California. That’s not a throwaway line from a man who has been inside several thousand restaurants. The
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