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Melt Eclectic Cafe – Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 21

Melt Eclectic Cafe on Hamilton Avenue in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood has been a city cafe institution since it opened, building a menu around the eclectic scratch-made comfort food, creative sandwiches, and the from-scratch cafe plates that earn a Cincinnati neighborhood restaurant its loyal following in a community that values independent food culture over chain options.

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Cincinnati, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 21

Blue Ash Chili Restaurant – Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 9

Blue Ash Chili on Kenwood Road has been serving Cincinnati-style chili since 1969, which means it has been serving a style of chili that most of the country doesn’t recognize as chili — Greek-spiced, cinnamon-forward, served over spaghetti or as a coney dog — for over 50 years. It appeared in Season 9, Episode 7

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Cincinnati, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 9

Momocho – Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Mexican, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 8

Momocho on Fulton Road in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood has been one of the city’s most celebrated Mexican restaurants since Eric Williams opened it, building a menu around modern Mexican cuisine — house-made salsas, creative guacamoles prepared tableside, and the kind of upscale approach to Mexican food that challenges the Tex-Mex assumptions most Midwesterners carry.

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Cleveland, Mexican, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 8

Melt Bar & Grilled – Lakewood, Ohio

Comfort Food, Ohio, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 8

Melt Bar and Grilled appeared in Season 8, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “By Request,” which aired February 8, 2010, as a Lakewood, Ohio grilled cheese operation building creative, over-the-top comfort food sandwiches with the kind of audacious approach that earned national attention. The featured Lakewood location has since permanently closed, though other

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Comfort Food, Ohio, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 8

Sterle’s Slovenian Country House – Cleveland, Ohio – Closed

Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 8

Sterle’s Slovenian Country House appeared in Season 8, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Pizza, Pork and Paprikash,” which aired January 11, 2010, as a Cleveland East Side institution serving Slovenian and Central European food in a setting that reflected the city’s deep Eastern European immigrant heritage — schnitzel, kielbasa, and the Old World

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Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 8

Geraci’s Restaurant – Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Italian, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 7

Geraci’s Restaurant on Warrensville Center Road in Cleveland’s University Heights neighborhood has been serving Italian-American food since 1945, building a multi-generational following around house-made pasta, meatballs, and the kind of family recipe Italian cooking that earns eight decades of loyal regulars. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Legacies,” which

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Cleveland, Italian, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 7

Lucky’s Cafe – Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 7

Lucky’s Cafe on Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood has been one of the city’s most beloved brunch destinations since Heather Haviland opened it in 2002, building a menu around seasonal local ingredients and scratch-made breakfast and lunch plates in a neighborhood that was already becoming one of Cleveland’s most interesting food corridors. It appeared

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Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 7
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