Los Taquitos Mexican Grill on East Elliot Road in the Ahwatukee area of Phoenix appeared in Season 6, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Over the Map,” which aired June 15, 2009. Guy Fieri found a Phoenix Mexican restaurant building authentic tacos, burritos, and Mexican street food from scratch in a neighborhood that […]
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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 6Giuseppe’s on 28th has been serving Italian-American comfort food to the Phoenix neighborhood surrounding East Indian School Road since it opened, building a loyal following around house-made pasta, scratch-made sauces, and the kind of red-sauce Italian cooking that earns multi-generational regulars. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Homestyle,” which
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Arizona, Italian, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 6Salsa Brava on East Route 66 in Flagstaff has been serving Mexican and Southwestern food to the high desert college town and the Route 66 travelers passing through since 1989, building a menu around fresh ingredients, house-made salsas, and the green chile that defines Northern Arizona cooking. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 9 of
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Arizona, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 5Roberto’s Mexican Food appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as an authentic Mexican restaurant in the Anthem area north of Phoenix serving the kind of homemade, scratch-made Mexican food that earned a DDD segment. The operation has since rebranded as Tortas
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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3La 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 6In late October 2004, Matt Pool opened an 800-square-foot red brick restaurant on a quiet corner in downtown Phoenix. He had no advertising budget and a menu built around one conviction: food tastes better when prepared simply with better ingredients. Within a few years the lines were stretching out the door every day. It appeared
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Arizona, Breakfast, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3Aunt Lena’s Creamery appeared in Season 4, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Brain Freeze,” which aired August 11, 2008, as an artisan gelato operation in Chandler, Arizona bringing Italian-style frozen desserts to the Phoenix area with house-made flavors well outside the standard gelato catalog. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:
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Arizona, Restaurants, Season 4Brandy’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 6Brett 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 5In 1967 Jim and Virginia Johnston built a ranch-style home on their farm in what would eventually become Gilbert, Arizona. They raised three sons there — Joe, Steve, and Paul — on land that had been farmed since 1927, when barren desert was cleared and irrigation made agriculture possible. By the time the Agritopia development
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