In 1965 Ramon and Maria Cardenas took over a small restaurant called Casa Grande in downtown Salt Lake City, with Maria cooking and Ramon waiting tables, sharing the Mexican dishes they had grown up with in Chihuahua. Twenty years later, in 1985, they reinvented it as Red Iguana on North Temple. The original location accommodated […]
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Mexican, Restaurants, Salt Lake City, Season 4, UtahThe name is a pun — a schooner is a 24-ounce chalice of beer — and it sets the tone for a breakfast and lunch spot that operates on Long Beach marina time, which is to say unhurried, waterfront, and worth the wait. Schooner or Later at Alamitos Harbor has been open since 1985, sitting
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American, Breakfast, Califonia, Restaurants, Season 2Crystal Restaurant on Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh appeared in Season 4, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “A Taste of Everywhere,” which aired September 15, 2008, as a Lebanese and Mediterranean kitchen bringing authentic Middle Eastern cooking to Pittsburgh’s downtown dining scene. Also listed as Crystal on Penn, the restaurant earned its DDD
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Mediterranean, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4Cheryl Chin was raised in Kingston, Jamaica with four siblings and a father who told them all they were going to America and all going to college. She came in 1980 and has been running Jamaica Kitchen since 1986, having taken over from the family that started it. The restaurant opened in 1980 as a
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Carribean, Florida, Miami, Restaurants, Season 4Bryant-Lake Bowl on West Lake Street in Minneapolis is a bowling alley, a theater, and a restaurant, all operating under one roof since 1993, and the combination works better than it has any right to. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008, as
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American, Gastropub, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Restaurants, Season 4Smokey Valley Truck Stop appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as a Kentucky truck stop serving Southern comfort food the way truck stops used to before chains took over every highway exit. The operation has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant:
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Kentucky, Restaurants, Season 3, SouthernSol Food Puerto Rican Cuisine started in 2003 with four employees selling at the San Rafael 4th Street Farmers’ Market. The food was so well received that a brick-and-mortar location followed in 2004, and the restaurant has since grown to four locations across Marin and Sonoma Counties. Sol Food appeared in Season 6, Episode 7
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Califonia, Restaurants, Season 6Otto’s Sausage Kitchen and Meat Market on SE Woodstock Boulevard in Portland has been making sausages the German way — house-ground meat, traditional spicing, natural casings, smoked over real wood — since the Eichentopf family opened it in 1936. Four generations later the family operation is still running, still making the same bratwurst, knockwurst, and
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Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6Black Duck Cafe on Riverside Avenue in Westport has been a Connecticut shoreline institution, combining fresh seafood with pub food in a waterfront setting that earns the loyalty of Fairfield County residents who know the difference between a proper fish sandwich and what passes for one in most suburban restaurants. It appeared in Season 6,
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Connecticut, Gastropub, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 6Roberto’s Mexican Food appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 — as an authentic Mexican restaurant in the Anthem area north of Phoenix serving the kind of homemade, scratch-made Mexican food that earned a DDD segment. The operation has since rebranded as Tortas
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