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Dottie’s True Blue Cafe – San Francisco, California – Closed

Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

Dottie’s True Blue Cafe appeared in Season 6, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Comfort Cookin’,” which aired June 29, 2009, as a San Francisco breakfast institution on 6th Street in SoMa that had built a multi-decade reputation around creative scratch-made breakfast plates, housemade jams, and the kind of generous, quality-first morning food that […]

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Rocco’s Cafe – San Francisco, California

Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6

Rocco’s Cafe on Folsom Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood has been serving Italian-American breakfast and lunch to the city since it opened, built around the kind of straightforward, generous, scratch-made food that earns a neighborhood diner its regulars one plate at a time. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and

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Hob Nob Hill – San Diego, California

American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5

Harold and Dorothy Hoersch opened a 14-stool lunch counter called the Juniper Café on a corner in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood in May 1944. Dorothy had previously worked as a secretary at Consolidated Aircraft and had no restaurant experience. Within two years the café had outgrown its space and moved to 2271 First Avenue,

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Tommy’s Joynt – San Francisco, California

American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Sandwiches, Season 5

Tommy Harris was a popular young radio crooner on KFRC in San Francisco in the 1930s before moving to NBC. In 1947, he and partners Al Pollack and the Veprin family opened Tommy’s Joynt at the corner of Van Ness and Geary on Route 101, calling it “the most gorgeous joynt in S.F.” and welcoming

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Pizzeria Luigi – San Diego, California

Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5

Pizzeria Luigi on 25th Street in San Diego’s Golden Hill neighborhood has been making New York-style pizza by the slice since 1992, run by Luigi Agostini who left his native Italy and eventually landed in Southern California with a determination to make pizza the way he grew up eating it. It appeared in Season 5,

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Tioli’s Crazee Burger – San Diego, California

Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 4

Tioli’s Crazee Burger on 30th Street in San Diego’s North Park neighborhood has built its reputation on a burger menu that takes “crazee” seriously: exotic meat options including elk, kangaroo, ostrich, and wild boar alongside the standard beef, all ground fresh and cooked to order. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins

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Schooner or Later – Long Beach, California

American, Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2

The name is a pun — a schooner is a 24-ounce chalice of beer — and it sets the tone for a breakfast and lunch spot that operates on Long Beach marina time, which is to say unhurried, waterfront, and worth the wait. Schooner or Later at Alamitos Harbor has been open since 1985, sitting

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Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine – San Rafael, California

Califonia, Restaurants, Season 6

Sol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine started in 2003 with four employees selling at the San Rafael 4th Street Farmers’ Market. The food was so well received that a brick-and-mortar location followed in 2004, and the restaurant has since grown to four locations across Marin and Sonoma Counties. Sol Food appeared in Season 6, Episode 7

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Bubba’s Diner – San Anselmo, California – Closed

Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, Season 6

Bubba’s Diner appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Biscuits, Bagels and BLTs,” which aired May 4, 2009, as a San Anselmo diner in Marin County serving the kind of generous, scratch-made breakfast and diner food that built a loyal community following in one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most

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