Cheryl Chin was raised in Kingston, Jamaica with four siblings and a father who told them all they were going to America and all going to college. She came in 1980 and has been running Jamaica Kitchen since 1986, having taken over from the family that started it. The restaurant opened in 1980 as a […]
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 4Flakowitz of Boynton on West Boynton Beach Boulevard has been the go-to deli and bakery for South Florida’s Jewish community and anyone else who found their way in since it opened, serving classic Jewish-style breakfast and deli food with the house-baked breads, bagels, and pastries that distinguish a real deli from a deli in name
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Bakery, Florida, Restaurants, Season 6Grampa’s Bakery and Restaurant in Dania Beach, Florida built its reputation on baking everything from scratch in house and then building a comfort food menu around that baking foundation. The cinnamon rolls, the bread, the pies, the biscuits — all of it comes from the kitchen rather than a supplier. It appeared in Season 3,
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Bakery, Comfort Food, Florida, Restaurants, Season 3Benny’s Seafood Restaurant appeared in Season 3, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “In the Family,” which aired June 30, 2008, as a family-run South Miami seafood operation serving fresh South Florida seafood in the tradition of the city’s immigrant fishing communities. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Benny’s Seafood RestaurantCity:
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Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 3Most steakhouses are just steakhouses. Alpine Steakhouse in Sarasota, Florida is a steakhouse, a butcher shop, a specialty grocery, a German deli, and the place that introduced Guy Fieri to the Turducken — a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey, twelve hours in the oven, and one of the most elaborate things ever served
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Florida, Restaurants, Season 2, SteakhouseThe 11th Street Diner started its life in 1948 when the Paramount Dining Car Company of Haledon, New Jersey built an Art Deco aluminum-sided diner and shipped it to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It operated there for 44 years before being dismantled, transported to Miami Beach, and reassembled in the heart of the South Beach Art Deco
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Diner, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Scully’s Tavern appeared in Season 3, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Something Different,” aired April 14, 2008 — as a Miami pub and bar kitchen serving food well above the standard tavern fare. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: Scully’s TavernCity: Miami, FloridaCuisine: Pub / Bar FoodDDD Season: 3DDD
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Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 3Indian Rocks Beach sits on a narrow barrier island on Florida’s Gulf Coast, a short drive from Clearwater and St. Pete, and Keegan’s Seafood Grille has been the locals’ go-to for fresh Gulf seafood since 1985. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Seaside Eats,” aired October 15, 2007
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Florida, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 2There are places that define a region’s food culture, and then there is Ted Peters Famous Smoked Fish in South Pasadena, Florida — a place that arguably invented a category. Open since 1947, it appeared in Season 2, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Viewer’s Choice,” aired October 29, 2007 — and was
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