Putah Creek Cafe on Main Street in Winters sits in a small Yolo County agricultural town that most California visitors drive past on their way somewhere else — which is their loss. The cafe has been serving creative scratch-made California comfort food to the farming community and the Napa and Sacramento Valley day-trippers who discovered
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American, Califonia, Comfort Food, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 11Catelli’s on Geyserville Avenue has been the dining anchor of a small Sonoma County Alexander Valley wine town since the Catelli family first opened it in 1936, and the current incarnation under Nick and Domenica Catelli has brought the family restaurant back to life with a menu built around house-made pasta, locally sourced ingredients, and
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Burgers, Califonia, Italian, Restaurants, Season 12HRD Coffee Shop appeared in Season 12, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Only Get It Here,” which aired May 23, 2011, as a San Francisco SoMa neighborhood breakfast cafe building Korean-Mexican fusion breakfast plates that you genuinely could not find anywhere else — kimchi burritos, Korean-spiced scrambles, and the creative cross-cultural
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 12Broken Record appeared in Season 12, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Southern Flavor,” which aired September 19, 2011, as a San Francisco Excelsior neighborhood pub serving Southern comfort food and bar food with the creative scratch-made approach that earned it a DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Broken
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Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 12Meal Ticket appeared in Season 10, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Sweet ‘n Savory,” which aired November 26, 2010, as a Berkeley American restaurant building a creative comfort food menu around pork and seasonal local ingredients in the tradition of the Bay Area’s farm-to-table movement. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts
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American, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 10Brats Brothers appeared in Season 10, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Gone Global,” which aired November 8, 2010, as a Sherman Oaks German sausage operation bringing house-made bratwurst, currywurst, and the Central European sausage tradition to the San Fernando Valley with the kind of scratch-made quality that earned a DDD segment. The restaurant
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Califonia, Restaurants, Season 10Mama Cozza’s on West Ball Road in Anaheim has been serving Italian-American comfort food to Orange County since it opened in 1967, building a multi-generational following around house-made pasta, lasagna, and the kind of red-sauce Italian cooking that earns a family restaurant its neighborhood anchor status across six decades. It appeared in Season 10, Episode
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Califonia, Italian, Restaurants, Season 10Paul’s Coffee Shop on Bushard Street in Fountain Valley has been a Southern California breakfast institution since it opened, serving the kind of generous, no-frills diner breakfast that earns a suburban neighborhood its loyal regulars one plate at a time. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Called It,”
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, Season 9Burger Me! on Donner Pass Road in Truckee has been feeding the Sierra Nevada mountain community with quality burgers since it opened, building a menu around fresh-ground beef, creative toppings, and the kind of straightforward quality that earns a mountain town its locals’ loyalty beyond the ski season. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 11
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 9Don Chow Tacos was a Los Angeles food truck serving Chinese-Mexican fusion — a combination that made perfect sense in a city where both culinary traditions have deep roots and a food truck culture willing to smash them together. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Fast Food Their Way,”
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