Mambo’s Cafe on Victory Boulevard in Glendale has been bringing Cuban and Latin cooking to the San Fernando Valley since it opened, serving the kind of from-scratch Cuban food — ropa vieja, lechon asado, pressed cubanos — that earns a devoted following in a market with no shortage of options. It appeared in Season 7, […]
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Califonia, Cuban, Restaurants, Season 7Cafe Pita+ appeared in Season 7, Episode 11 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Style,” which aired November 2, 2009, as a Houston Bosnian restaurant serving the food of the former Yugoslavia — cevapi, burek, and the Eastern European-Mediterranean cooking that Houston’s Bosnian immigrant community brought with them — in a setting that gave the
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Houston, Mediterranean, Restaurants, Season 7, TexasParkview Nite Club on West 58th Street in Cleveland’s Stockyards neighborhood has been a West Side institution since it opened, serving the kind of no-nonsense pub food and cold beer that earns a neighborhood bar its regulars one generation at a time. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Dives
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Cleveland, Ohio, Restaurants, Season 7Nickel Diner appeared in Season 7, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Blast from the Past,” which aired October 19, 2009, as a downtown Los Angeles diner on South Main Street serving scratch-made breakfast and diner food with a creative bent — most notably the maple-bacon donut that became something of a city landmark.
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Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Los Angeles, Restaurants, Season 7Sam LaGrassa’s on Province Street in downtown Boston has been making sandwiches since 1909, operating as a working-class lunch counter in the heart of the Financial District for over a century with a menu anchored by house-roasted meats, hand-carved on the spot. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Blast
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Boston, Massachusetts, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 7Cattlemen’s Cafe opened in 1910 in Oklahoma City’s Stockyards City, feeding cowboys, ranchers, and cattle haulers in a district where herds were driven from across the state to meet the East’s demand for beef. In 1945, owner Hank Frey ran out of luck and money at a dice game at the Biltmore Hotel and wagered
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Oklahoma, Restaurants, Season 7, SteakhouseLucky’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 7Pizzalchik appeared in Season 7, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Barbequed, Baked and Brined,” which aired October 12, 2009, as a Boise fast food pizza operation combining the pizza and chicken concepts in a format that earned its DDD segment. The restaurant has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: PizzalchikCity: Boise, IdahoCuisine: Pizza
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Boise, Idaho, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 7Honky Tonk BBQ on South Racine in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood has been smoking low-and-slow since it opened, bringing serious Southern BBQ to a Mexican-American neighborhood that appreciated the food immediately and made it a local institution. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Barbequed, Baked and Brined,” which aired October
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Barbecue, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7Niko Niko’s on Montrose Boulevard has been a Houston institution since Niko Pappas opened it in 1977, serving Greek food to a city that didn’t know it needed a neighborhood Greek restaurant until it had one. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “You Can Say That Again,” which aired
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