Murphy’s Bar and Grill on Merchant Street in downtown Honolulu has been the city’s Irish pub since Don Murphy opened it in 1987, serving the classic Irish-American pub food alongside the kind of comfort food menu that makes Murphy’s the place downtown Honolulu workers end up after work and tourists end up when they venture […]
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Comfort Food, Hawaii, Honolulu, Restaurants, Season 9Rob Crenshaw spent time surfing the California coast and fell in love with the Baja-style fish tacos he found at taco stands near the water — the kind of fresh, simple, California-Mexico border cooking that doesn’t exist in Charlotte. So in 2001 he brought it there himself. Cabo Fish Taco on North Davidson Street in
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Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 9Cafe Citti on Sonoma Highway in Kenwood sits in the middle of Wine Country and makes no attempt to be a Wine Country restaurant — it is a casual Italian trattoria where the rotisserie chicken spins in the window, the pasta is made in house, and the prices reflect a kitchen that wants to feed
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Califonia, Italian, Restaurants, Season 9Gloria’s Cafe on Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles has been serving authentic Salvadoran and Latin food since Gloria opened it, building a loyal following around pupusas, tamales, and the home cooking of El Salvador that is rare even in Los Angeles’s expansive Latin food landscape. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 913 Gypsies on Stockton Street in Jacksonville’s Riverside neighborhood has been bringing Spanish tapas and creative pasta to a city that didn’t have much of either since chef-owner Eunice Trotti opened it, building a menu around the bold flavors of the Iberian Peninsula executed with genuine skill in a small, intimate dining room. It appeared
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Florida, Restaurants, Season 9, SpanishNorth End Caffe on Highland Avenue in Manhattan Beach has been a South Bay institution since it opened, serving creative scratch-made breakfast and brunch in a neighborhood that appreciates both the beach proximity and the quality of what’s on the plate. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Surf ‘n
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