Season 5

Wilson’s Holy Smoke BBQ – Fairfield, Connecticut – Closed

Barbecue, Connecticut, Restaurants, Season 5

Wilson’s Holy Smoke BBQ appeared in Season 5, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “BBQ and More,” which aired February 9, 2009, as a Fairfield, Connecticut BBQ operation bringing serious pit-smoked barbecue to a state more known for its pizza and seafood traditions than its BBQ. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts […]

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Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket – Willowbrook, Illinois

Illinois, Restaurants, Season 5

In 1938, two local farm women walked into Irv Kolarik’s gas station lunch counter on Route 66 in what was then rural Hinsdale, Illinois and overheard him complaining about running a gas station when he’d rather be running a restaurant. They offered him their secret fried chicken recipe in exchange for a steady supply contract

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Standard Diner – Albuquerque, New Mexico

American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Standard Diner occupies a 1938 Texaco service station on Central Avenue SE in Albuquerque — which means it occupies a stretch of Historic Route 66 in a building that has its own National Register of Historic Places potential. The restoration converted the gas station into a full-service diner without erasing the Art Deco bones of

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The Silver Skillet – Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Breakfast, Georgia, Restaurants, Season 5, Southern

Sara and Tommy Haygood opened The Silver Skillet in 1956 in Midtown Atlanta when 14th Street was a very different road than the skyscraper corridor it became. Jimmy Collins — the same man who helped design the original Dwarf Houses that became Chick-fil-A — transformed the building into its current Mid-Century diner appearance. George and

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Tufano’s Vernon Park Tap – Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 5

Tufano’s Vernon Park Tap has been on West Vernon Park Place in Chicago’s University Village neighborhood since 1930, which makes it one of the oldest Italian-American restaurants in the city. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Just Like Yesterday,” which aired January 26, 2009. Guy Fieri found a multigenerational

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Hob Nob Hill – San Diego, California

American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5

Harold and Dorothy Hoersch opened a 14-stool lunch counter called the Juniper Café on a corner in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood in May 1944. Dorothy had previously worked as a secretary at Consolidated Aircraft and had no restaurant experience. Within two years the café had outgrown its space and moved to 2271 First Avenue,

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