James “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 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 5Nadine’s Restaurant in the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh has been a neighborhood bar and diner since 1977, serving the kind of honest American comfort food that earns 45-year reputations. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Cookin’ It Old School,” which aired October 6, 2008, as a Pittsburgh neighborhood
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American, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4Crystal 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 4Pierogies and stuffed pepper soup are not the first things that come to mind when someone thinks of a bar outside Pittsburgh. But the Starlite Lounge in Blawnox has been drawing locals in with exactly those two dishes for over 50 years. Owner Ron “Moondog” Esser has run the place with a deep commitment to
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Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4Kelly O’Connor grew up in a huge family around kitchens, not cooking school. She had no formal culinary training when she opened Kelly O’s Diner on Perry Highway in Pittsburgh’s North Hills. What she had was a handful of family recipes — including her grandmother’s haluski — and the conviction to build a neighborhood diner
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Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 5Joe Morozin launched his first diner in 1940 at age 16. Over the next two decades he opened and closed more than a dozen restaurants before landing in Northeast Philadelphia in 1960, where he opened the Torresdale Diner at 8828 Frankford Avenue. The name changed to The Dining Car in 1976, and a fire destroyed
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Diner, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 2Daddypops opened in 1953 and has not tried very hard to update itself since. The single-room diner in Hatboro, Pennsylvania — one row of barstools, two antique barber chairs anchoring each end of the counter, vintage memorabilia on every wall including a portrait of Guy Fieri — is a Back to the Future moment for
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Breakfast, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 3Silk City Diner – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia has no shortage of places worth eating, but Silk City Diner on Spring Garden Street occupies a category all its own. It appeared in Season 2, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Totally Fried,” aired October 1, 2007 — and it brought something to that episode
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