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Roberto’s Mexican Food (Tortas Chano) – Phoenix, Arizona

Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

Roberto’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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Arizona, Mexican, Phoenix, Restaurants, Season 3

Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In – Boise, Idaho

Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6

Chef Lou’s Westside Drive-In on West State Street in Boise has been a drive-in institution in the Treasure Valley since it opened, serving the Idaho specialty of finger steaks — beef strips battered and deep-fried, invented in Boise in the 1950s — alongside classic American drive-in burgers and the kind of comfort food menu that

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Boise, Burgers, Idaho, Restaurants, Season 6

Jamaica Gates Caribbean Cuisine – Arlington, Texas

Carribean, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Jamaica Gates Caribbean Cuisine on West Arkansas Lane in Arlington has been bringing authentic Jamaican and Caribbean cooking to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since opening, serving jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, and the kind of from-scratch Caribbean food that makes the drive from Dallas or Fort Worth worth it. It appeared in Season 6, Episode

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Carribean, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Sweetie Pie’s – St. Louis, Missouri – Closed

Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, St. Louis

Sweetie Pie’s was a St. Louis soul food institution founded by Miss Robbie Montgomery, a former Ikettes backup singer who turned to cooking after an asthma diagnosis ended her performing career. The Manchester Avenue location appeared in Season 3, Episode 2 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Like Mama Made,” aired March 17, 2008 —

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Missouri, Restaurants, Season 3, Southern, St. Louis

Flakowitz of Boynton Bakery & Deli Restaurant – Boynton Beach, Florida

Bakery, Florida, Restaurants, Season 6

Flakowitz of Boynton on West Boynton Beach Boulevard has been the go-to deli and bakery for South Florida’s Jewish community and anyone else who found their way in since it opened, serving classic Jewish-style breakfast and deli food with the house-baked breads, bagels, and pastries that distinguish a real deli from a deli in name

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Bakery, Florida, Restaurants, Season 6

Bubba’s Diner – San Anselmo, California – Closed

Breakfast, Califonia, Diner, Restaurants, Season 6

Bubba’s Diner appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Biscuits, Bagels and BLTs,” which aired May 4, 2009, as a San Anselmo diner in Marin County serving the kind of generous, scratch-made breakfast and diner food that built a loyal community following in one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s most

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Brownstone Diner & Pancake Factory – Jersey City, New Jersey

Breakfast, Diner, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 3

Peter and Irene Bournias emigrated from Chios, Greece in the 1950s and opened a tiny subway car diner in downtown Jersey City in 1968. They had no idea what a pancake was when they started. By the time their children took over, the family had invented 31 varieties of them. The Brownstone Diner and Pancake

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Breakfast, Diner, New Jersey, Restaurants, Season 3

Arleta Library Bakery & Cafe – Portland, Oregon

Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

Arleta Library Bakery and Cafe on SE 72nd at Harold in Portland’s Woodstock neighborhood takes its name from the Arleta School building that once occupied the site — a neighborhood institution repurposed into a bakery and cafe that functions as a neighborhood institution of a different kind. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 5 of

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Bakery, Breakfast, Oregon, Portland, Restaurants, Season 6

Twisted Root Burger Co. – Dallas, Texas

Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas

Twisted Root Burger Co. opened in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood in 2006, built around the same creative burger philosophy that Kuma’s Corner was developing simultaneously in Chicago: take a serious 10-ounce beef patty and build something unexpected on top of it. At Twisted Root the wildcard is game meat — venison, elk, bison, wild boar,

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Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, Texas
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