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Joe’s Cable Car Restaurant – San Francisco, California – Closed

Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 2

Joe 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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El Indio Mexican Restaurant – San Diego, California

Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 2

Ralph 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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Willie Bird’s Restaurant – Santa Rosa, California

American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2

Willie 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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Duarte’s Tavern – Pescadero, California

American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2

Pescadero, 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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Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Café – Victorville, California

Breakfast, Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2

Route 66 has produced a lot of legendary stops over the decades, and Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Café in Victorville, California earns its place among the best of them. The pistachio green building at 17143 N. D St. has been feeding truck drivers, road-trippers, and High Desert locals since 1947, and it looked right at

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Ramona Cafe – Ramona, California

American, Califonia, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Season 2

Ramona, California is the kind of small town that doesn’t make a lot of noise — which makes it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. Ramona Cafe has been on Main Street since 1936, serving San Diego County’s backcountry the kind of scratch-made comfort food that doesn’t need

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