Harold and Dorothy Hoersch opened a 14-stool lunch counter called the Juniper Café on a corner in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood in May 1944. Dorothy had previously worked as a secretary at Consolidated Aircraft and had no restaurant experience. Within two years the café had outgrown its space and moved to 2271 First Avenue, […]
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American, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, San Diego, Season 5Tune-Up Cafe on Hickox Street in Santa Fe has been combining the cooking traditions of El Salvador and New Mexico in a small neighborhood restaurant that earns regulars who come back weekly and visitors who plan their Santa Fe trips around a table there. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Blow Fly Inn on Washington Avenue in Gulfport has been a Mississippi Gulf Coast seafood and Southern food institution since the 1940s, surviving hurricanes, ownership changes, and decades of competition to remain one of the most authentic dining experiences on the coast. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Neighborhood
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Mississippi, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 5, SouthernPat’s BBQ on West Commonwealth Avenue in Salt Lake City has been making a case that Utah deserves a serious BBQ reputation since Pat Hughes opened it with a conviction that low-and-slow smoked meat is not a regional specialty but a universal truth. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 5, UtahEmily’s Lebanese Deli on University Avenue NE in Minneapolis has been serving Lebanese home cooking to the Twin Cities since 1980, built around the recipes that owner Emily Kalil brought from her family’s Lebanese tradition and served in a straightforward deli setting that prioritizes the food over the atmosphere. It appeared in Season 5, Episode
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Middle Eastern, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 5Vito and Nick Barraco opened their pizzeria on South Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side in 1932, originally as a tavern that served food. The pizza program became the focus over time, and Vito and Nick’s developed one of the most distinctive styles in Chicago: a thin, crispy, cracker-like crust cut into squares rather than
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Chicago, Illinois, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5Valencia Luncheria brought Venezuelan food to Norwalk, Connecticut in a setting that looked more like a casual lunchroom than a destination restaurant, which made it exactly the kind of place Guy Fieri was built to find. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Something from Everywhere,” which aired January 12,
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Connecticut, Restaurants, Season 5James “Big Jim” Bochicchio opened Big Jim’s in 1977 in the lower Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh — the area locals call “The Run” — with his mother’s recipes for Italian wedding soup, meatballs, and spaghetti sauce, and a conviction that portions should never leave anyone wondering if they got enough. Big Jim passed away in
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Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 5Joe Tess Place appeared in Season 5, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Long Time Legends,” which aired January 5, 2009, as an Omaha fish house institution serving fresh carp and other freshwater fish in a tradition that stretched back decades on the south side of the city. The restaurant has since permanently closed.
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Nebraska, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 5Tommy Harris was a popular young radio crooner on KFRC in San Francisco in the 1930s before moving to NBC. In 1947, he and partners Al Pollack and the Veprin family opened Tommy’s Joynt at the corner of Van Ness and Geary on Route 101, calling it “the most gorgeous joynt in S.F.” and welcoming
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