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WOW Worth Our Weight – Santa Rosa, California – Closed

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WOW Worth Our Weight appeared in Season 11, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Funky Finds,” which aired January 17, 2011, as a Santa Rosa nonprofit cafe and culinary training program building a scratch-made American comfort food menu while providing at-risk youth with culinary education and job skills. The restaurant has since permanently closed.

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Gatsby’s Diner – Sacramento, California – Closed

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Gatsby’s Diner appeared in Season 11, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Little Twisted,” which aired January 31, 2011, as a Sacramento American diner and burger operation serving creative scratch-made diner food with a retro character that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Gatsby’s DinerCity: Sacramento,

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Aunt Mary’s Cafe – Oakland, California – Closed

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Aunt Mary’s Cafe appeared in Season 11, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Favorites With a Twist,” which aired February 28, 2011, as an Oakland brunch cafe serving Southern-influenced breakfast and seafood with the creative, quality-forward approach that made it one of the East Bay’s most celebrated morning destinations before it closed. The restaurant

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Dad’s Kitchen – Sacramento, California

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Dad’s Kitchen on Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood has been a community institution since it opened, serving the kind of honest, scratch-made American diner food that earns a neighborhood its go-to lunch counter one loyal regular at a time. It appeared in Season 11, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Soup and

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Jimtown Store – Healdsburg, California

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Jimtown Store on CA-128 in the Alexander Valley has been a Wine Country roadside institution since Carrie Brown and John Werner restored it in 1991, transforming a dilapidated general store dating to 1895 into a beloved cafe, sandwich shop, and artisan market. It appeared in Season 11, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Porktastic,”

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Sunflower Caffe – Sonoma, California

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Sunflower Caffe on First Street West in the heart of Sonoma’s historic plaza has been a Wine Country breakfast and lunch institution since it opened, serving California comfort food built around local ingredients with the kind of warm, community-focused cafe atmosphere that earns a Sonoma Valley neighborhood its go-to morning spot. It appeared in Season

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Putah Creek Cafe – Winters, California

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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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Catelli’s – Geyserville, California

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Catelli’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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HRD Coffee Shop – San Francisco, California – Closed

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HRD 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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Broken Record – San Francisco, California – Closed

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Broken 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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