Matt 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 6Giusti’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, SteakhouseJoe Obegi opened Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant on Mission Street in San Francisco’s Excelsior District in 1965, when burgers were $0.40. He ran it until March 16, 2014 — 49 years, same owner, same address, same philosophy — when he closed the doors to retire rather than sell to someone who might compromise the quality.
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 2Studio Diner in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa neighborhood was not built to be a restaurant. It was built in the summer of 2003 as a film set next door to the 20-acre Stu Segall Productions facility — the same lot that hosted productions like Veronica Mars and Bring It On. At some point someone realized
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Ralph Pesqueira Sr. started El Indio in 1940 as a tortilla factory at the corner of India and Grape Streets in San Diego. He made them by hand. Fresh corn tortillas, supplied to local restaurants. He also coined the word “taquito” for his rolled tacos, which is a detail that belongs in the record books.
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Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 2Los Tapatios started as a lunch truck on the side of the road in San Jose and upgraded to a full restaurant before Guy Fieri came looking. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “One of a Kind,” aired November 19, 2007 — as a place serving homemade authentic
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Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 2Willie Benedetti raised turkeys. Then he turned those turkeys into a restaurant that became a Sonoma County institution. Willie Bird’s Restaurant in Santa Rosa, California appeared in Season 2, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Talkin’ Turkey,” aired November 10, 2007 — and it was the perfect fit for that episode. The man
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Pescadero, California is a small coastal town on San Mateo County’s coast, the kind of place you drive through on the way to somewhere else until you find out about Duarte’s Tavern. Open since 1894, it appeared in Season 2, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Local Flavor,” aired October 22, 2007 —
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2There is no dining room. There is no fancy signage. Jay Bee’s Bar-B-Que in Gardena, California operates out of what can only be described as a shack on the median of South Avalon Boulevard — and it has been one of the most respected BBQ operations in Los Angeles for decades. It appeared in Season
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