Nic’s Grill on North Pennsylvania Avenue in Oklahoma City is a small counter-service burger spot that has been producing some of the best smash burgers in the state since Nick Papadopulous opened it, operating out of a space barely large enough to seat a dozen people with a kitchen that produces outsized results. It appeared […]
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Breakfast, Burgers, Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 7Rick’s Press Room Grill and Bar appeared in Season 7, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Name That Cook,” which aired August 17, 2009, as a Meridian, Idaho American comfort food restaurant serving scratch-made food that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Rick’s Press Room Grill and
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American, Comfort Food, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 7Cempazuchi appeared in Season 7, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Burgers, Tacos and Dogs,” which aired August 10, 2009, as a Milwaukee Brady Street restaurant serving authentic Oaxacan and regional Mexican food well beyond Tex-Mex — mole negro, tlayudas, and the complex preparations of southern Mexico that most of the Midwest had never
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Milwaukee, Restaurants, Season 7, WisconsinFab Hot Dogs on Victory Boulevard in Reseda has been making a case for the San Fernando Valley as a serious hot dog destination since it opened, splitting and griddling all-beef dogs and building them with scratch-made toppings that go well beyond the standard stand. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 7Aubrey and Nona Lankford started a fruit stand in Houston’s Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in 1937, moved into a two-story building at 88 Dennis Street in 1939, and ran a full-service grocery there for four decades. In the early 1980s their daughter Eydie took over, recognized the big grocery chains weren’t beatable, and pivoted to a
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Burgers, Comfort Food, Houston, Restaurants, Season 7, TexasThe Depot American Diner appeared in Season 7, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Upper Crust,” which aired August 3, 2009, as a Chicago West Side diner serving scratch-made American comfort food to a neighborhood that needed exactly that restaurant. The Depot has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: The Depot American DinerCity: Chicago,
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Chicago, Comfort Food, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7Sonny’s Famous Steak Hogies in Hollywood, Florida has been making Philadelphia-style cheesesteaks for South Florida since it opened, bringing the real thing to a state that has no shortage of sandwich shops but plenty of reason to appreciate one that gets the cheesesteak right. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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Florida, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7Tommy Habetz was a serious chef — former sous chef at Mario Batali’s Lupa in New York — when he and Nick Wood decided to open a small sandwich shop in Portland in 2008. The name comes from Bunk Moreland, the detective from The Wire, and also functions as the owners calling out anyone in
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7Lake Effect Diner on Main Street in Buffalo has been one of the city’s favorite breakfast and comfort food stops since it opened, named after the weather phenomenon that defines western New York winters and serving the kind of hearty scratch-made diner food that Buffalo winters demand. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 13 of
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