Louie’s on North Henderson Avenue in Dallas has been a Lower Greenville neighborhood fixture serving pizza, pub food, and Italian-American comfort food to a community of regulars who have been coming since the restaurant opened. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Favorites,” which aired March 23, 2009. Guy […]
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Dallas, Gastropub, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasBrett and Rose Hoffmann opened Haus Murphy’s in historic downtown Glendale in 1996, with Rose’s Bavarian upbringing providing the recipes and Brett running the kitchen. The restaurant sits a block from Murphy Park in the antique district of downtown Glendale, and it has been serving authentic German food — schnitzel, sauerbraten, rouladen, potato pancakes, giant
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Arizona, Restaurants, Season 5Giusti’s in Walnut Grove appeared in Season 5, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Favorites,” which aired March 23, 2009, as a Sacramento Delta institution that had been serving Italian-American steakhouse food to generations of boaters, hunters, and locals since 1912, making it one of the oldest restaurants in California at the time
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Califonia, Restaurants, Season 5, SteakhouseBert’s Burger Bowl appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Kinds of Fast Food,” which aired March 16, 2009, as a Santa Fe burger stand serving the kind of honest, no-frills green chile cheeseburger that New Mexico does better than anywhere else in the country. The restaurant has since permanently
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Burgers, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5California Tacos and More on California Street in Omaha has been serving authentic Mexican street-style tacos to the city’s south side since the 1970s, built around the kind of family recipe tacos that most of Omaha had never encountered at a neighborhood counter. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Mexican, Nebraska, Omaha, Restaurants, Season 5In 1992, Gary Zemola bought a fully restored vintage food truck that he had seen years earlier in a painting in John Baeder’s 1978 book “Diners.” The truck had been sitting idle at a fire station. Zemola tracked it down, brought it back to life, and began operating Super Duper Weenie from it seasonally around
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Connecticut, Restaurants, Season 5Kelly O’Connor grew up in a huge family around kitchens, not cooking school. She had no formal culinary training when she opened Kelly O’s Diner on Perry Highway in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. What she had was a handful of family recipes — including her grandmother’s haluski — and the conviction to build a neighborhood diner
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Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 5Joey K’s Restaurant and Bar started as Tony’s in the 1970s, one block from its current location on the corner of Seventh and Magazine Street in the Garden District. It has been under the name Joey K’s since the transition that brought it to this address, and it has been serving the same New Orleans
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Louisiana, New Orleans, Restaurants, Season 5, SouthernCecilia Baca opened Cecilia’s Cafe in 1999 on the corner of 6th Street and Silver Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, naming it after herself and building the menu around the New Mexican food she learned from her grandmother’s kitchen. She is one of twelve siblings and traces her cooking directly to her family’s traditions, including a
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