La Texanita on Sebastopol Road in Santa Rosa has been serving Sonoran and northern Mexican food to Sonoma County since it opened, building a reputation around carne asada, birria, and the kind of regional Mexican cooking that reflects the traditions of the Mexican state of Sonora rather than a generic Tex-Mex menu. It appeared in
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Califonia, Mexican, Restaurants, Season 7Fab Hot Dogs on Victory Boulevard in Reseda has been making a case for the San Fernando Valley as a serious hot dog destination since it opened, splitting and griddling all-beef dogs and building them with scratch-made toppings that go well beyond the standard stand. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins
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Burgers, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 7Polka Restaurant on Verdugo Road in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles has been serving authentic Polish home cooking to a city that doesn’t see much of it since it opened, building a following around pierogi, bigos, and the kind of Eastern European comfort food that earns loyal regulars fast. It appeared in Season
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Califonia, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 6Dottie’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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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6Rocco’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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Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Season 6Gorilla Barbeque operates from a tiny yellow shack in a parking lot on Highway 1 in Pacifica, with the Pacific Ocean visible in the distance and a smoker that has been running since 2003. The setup is as minimal as BBQ gets: a shack, a smoker, picnic tables, and some of the best ribs on
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Barbecue, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 5Harold 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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American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5Tommy 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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American, Califonia, Restaurants, San Francisco, Sandwiches, Season 5Pizzeria 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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Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5Tioli’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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