Dish on Thomas Avenue in Charlotte’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood has been one of the city’s most beloved Southern comfort food restaurants since it opened, building a menu around the kind of scratch-made Southern classics — chicken pot pie, shrimp and grits, pimento cheese — that earn a neighborhood restaurant its loyal following one plate at
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Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 8Three Greek brothers — Sam, George, and Nick Copsis — immigrated to the United States and in 1955 opened a drive-in on South Boulevard in Charlotte small enough to hold a grill, a toaster, two deep fryers, and a drink station. The Independence Boulevard location, which opened in 1959, is the one that has been
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Burgers, Charlotte, North Carolina, Restaurants, Season 8The Penguin in Charlotte, North Carolina brought burger-joint comfort and neighborhood personality to Season 1, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. In an episode called Blue Plate Special, it fit right into the early Triple D groove: casual food, local character, and the kind of place that did not need a fancy pitch to
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Burgers, Comfort Food, North Carolina, Season 1Barbecue King Drive-In in Charlotte, North Carolina was the kind of place that sounded ready-made for early Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Featured in Season 1, Episode 5, this old-school stop brought barbecue and fried chicken into an episode built for smoke, crunch, and comfort food that does not bother with subtlety. Though Barbecue King Drive-In
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