Kent Pfeiffer wanted to name his restaurant Eddy’s Westside Cafe, but he and his wife Diana settled on a name after a diner they loved in Louisiana — something involving a nice flower, a magnolia maybe. Magnolia Cafe opened in 1979 on Lake Austin Boulevard and expanded to South Congress in 1988. The story of […]
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American, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasSophia’s Place appeared in Season 5, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Not What You’d Expect,” which aired November 24, 2008, as an Albuquerque breakfast and lunch operation built around New Mexican-style Mexican food with the kind of scratch-made chile and homemade tortilla cooking that defines the state’s food identity. Both the original Sophia’s
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Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Pizzeria Luigi on 25th Street in San Diego’s Golden Hill neighborhood has been making New York-style pizza by the slice since 1992, run by Luigi Agostini who left his native Italy and eventually landed in Southern California with a determination to make pizza the way he grew up eating it. It appeared in Season 5,
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Califonia, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5Luigi DiPasquale arrived from Corropoli in the Abruzzo region of Italy at age 14 and opened a small corner store on Claremont Street in Baltimore’s Highlandtown neighborhood in 1914. He sold chickens tied to the light pole out front, made his own bleach, and stocked groceries and household goods for the Italian immigrant community settling
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Maryland, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 5LoBello’s Spaghetti House appeared in Season 5, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Real Deal Italian,” which aired November 17, 2008, as a family-run Coraopolis Italian restaurant serving scratch-made pasta and old-school Italian-American cooking that had built a multi-generational following west of Pittsburgh. The restaurant closed in 2017. Quick Facts Restaurant: LoBello’s Spaghetti HouseCity:
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Italian, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5The Dor-Stop Restaurant sits on a corner of Potomac Avenue in Dormont, a borough just south of Pittsburgh on the other side of the Liberty Tunnels, and Bob and Vicki Lawhorne have been running it as a family operation for over 25 years. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,
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Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5Harry Shapiro grew up in Philadelphia, trained as a chef, and eventually landed in Santa Fe, where he brought his Philadelphia food sensibility — particularly a deep affection for scrapple — into a Southwestern roadhouse setting. Harry’s Roadhouse has been on Old Las Vegas Highway just outside of downtown Santa Fe since the 1990s, earning
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Breakfast, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Surrey’s Café and Juice Bar sits on Magazine Street in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District, in a small, warm space that has been filling up every morning since it opened. The café earned its reputation on house-made bagels, fresh-squeezed organic juices, boudin hash with andouille, and shrimp and grits that belong in the conversation about
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Breakfast, Louisiana, Restaurants, Season 5The Talanco family has been cooking BBQ in South Texas for four generations, and Texas Pride Barbecue in Adkins is the current expression of that tradition. The restaurant sits on East Loop 1604 about 20 miles southeast of San Antonio, and San Antonio locals have been making that drive for decades. Texas Pride appeared in
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 3, TexasSurrey’s Café and Juice Bar sits on Magazine Street in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District, in a small, warm space that has been filling up every morning since it opened. The café earned its reputation on house-made bagels, fresh-squeezed organic juices, boudin hash with andouille, and shrimp and grits that belong in the conversation about
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