Cafe 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 9North 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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Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 9Pier 23 Cafe sits on the Embarcadero waterfront at Pier 23, one of the oldest continuously operating restaurant locations on San Francisco Bay, with a history stretching back to the 1930s and a waterfront patio that makes it the right place to be on a sunny San Francisco afternoon. It appeared in Season 8, Episode
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Seafood, Season 8Aldo’s Harbor Restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Santa Cruz sits at the edge of the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor, which means the fish on your plate and the boats that caught it are visible from the same window. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Twists and Traditions,” which
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Califonia, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 8Naglee Park Garage appeared in Season 8, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Food Classics,” which aired February 22, 2010, as a San Jose neighborhood restaurant building a creative American comfort food menu around lamb and seasonal local ingredients in a converted garage space that gave it the kind of character most purpose-built
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 8Bette’s Oceanview Diner has been on 4th Street in Berkeley’s Waterfront District since Bette Kroening and her partners opened it in 1982, serving scratch-made California diner breakfasts with the kind of quality sourcing and culinary technique that made the place a Bay Area institution well before Guy Fieri arrived. It appeared in Season 8, Episode
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 8900 Grayson on Grayson Street in Berkeley’s West Berkeley neighborhood has been one of the Bay Area’s go-to spots for creative American comfort food since it opened, built around scratch-made chicken and waffles and the kind of thoughtful, locally sourced breakfast and brunch plates that made it a destination well before the cameras arrived. It
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 8Andre Guerrero opened The Oinkster in 2006 in Eagle Rock in a former Der Wienerschnitzel building, aiming to bring slow-food sensibility to fast-food formats: house-cured pastrami, pulled pork slow-smoked for 14 hours, Belgian-style fries cooked twice, and shakes made with Fosselman’s ice cream. It appeared in Season 8, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 8Rick and Ann’s on Domingo Avenue in Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood has been a neighborhood breakfast and brunch institution since Rick Mahan and Ann Walker opened it, building a menu around scratch-made morning food with the kind of locally sourced, seasonal approach that made Berkeley’s food culture famous before it became nationally common. It appeared in
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