La Piazza Al Forno in historic downtown Glendale has been making Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizza in a neighborhood a block from Murphy Park since opening, producing the kind of thin-crust, blistered, properly charred pizza that almost never shows up in the Phoenix suburbs. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A […]
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Arizona, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6Cafe Rolle appeared in Season 6, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Bit of Everywhere,” which aired April 20, 2009, as a Sacramento French sandwich and cafe operation bringing classic French preparations — fresh baguettes, charcuterie, and the kind of simple, quality-first French deli cooking that is exceedingly rare outside major metropolitan
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Califonia, French, Restaurants, Sacramento, Sandwiches, Season 6In 1990, Adelia Simplot — daughter of a first-generation Basque immigrant — purchased a small brick building on South Capitol Boulevard that had housed the Cub Tavern for over 40 years and saved it from demolition. Dan Ansotegui leased the renovated space and opened Bar Gernika on June 19, 1991, naming it after Gernika, Boise’s
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Boise, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6Luke Tobias opened Kuma’s Corner in 2005 at the corner of Belmont and Francisco in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, intending to run a craft beer bar with heavy metal on the sound system. The burgers caught on faster than the beer list. Almost every burger on the menu is named after a heavy metal or hard
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Burgers, Chicago, Gastropub, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 6Brandy’s Restaurant and Bakery on East Cedar Avenue in Flagstaff has been a Northern Arizona breakfast and bakery institution since owner Brandy opened it with a commitment to baking everything in house and building a morning menu around that from-scratch foundation. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Their Own
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Arizona, Bakery, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 6Matt and Judd Braun grew up in and on the water — surfing, diving, boating, and fishing the beaches and blue water of San Diego and Baja California. They went to Point Loma High with the sons and daughters of the city’s Portuguese fishing community. They worked on boats as commercial divers and knew, intimately,
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Diego, Seafood, Season 6Jamie’s Broadway Grille on Broadway in Sacramento has been serving BBQ and American grill food to the Oak Park and Midtown neighborhoods since owner Jamie Butturff opened it as a neighborhood restaurant committed to quality sourcing and scratch cooking. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Funky Joints,” which aired
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Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Sacramento, Season 6Chef Franson Nwaeze opened Chef Point Cafe inside a car wash in Watauga, Texas — a detail that made it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. The “funky joint” framing was literal: a fine dining kitchen operating inside a functioning car wash, producing upscale comfort food and seafood
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Restaurants, Seafood, Season 6, TexasIn 1986, David Nast was a visual artist with a shoestring budget and a dream. He took a 1920s auto garage in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, enlisted a crew of artist friends, and transformed it into a restaurant that would reflect his personality in every corner: a vintage tandem bike suspended from the ceiling, an oversize
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