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Honey’s Sit-N-Eat – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 11

Honey’s Sit-N-Eat on North 4th Street in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood has been one of the city’s most beloved breakfast and brunch spots since it opened, combining Southern comfort food with Jewish deli traditions in a combination that sounds unexpected and tastes completely natural. It appeared in Season 11, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and […]

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Pineville Tavern – Pineville, Pennsylvania

Gastropub, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 11

Pineville Tavern on Durham Road in Pineville has been a Bucks County institution since 1742 — a colonial-era tavern that has been serving food and drink to the community through nearly three centuries of American history. It appeared in Season 11, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Soup and Sandwiches,” which aired March 7,

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Good Dog Bar & Restaurant – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Burgers, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Restaurants, Season 10

Good Dog Bar and Restaurant on South 15th Street in Philadelphia’s Center City has been one of the city’s most beloved bar kitchens since it opened, building a reputation around the Good Dog Burger — a beef patty stuffed with Roquefort cheese, sealed inside, and cooked until the cheese melts into the meat from within.

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Big Jim’s – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Sandwiches, Season 5

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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LoBello’s Spaghetti House – Coraopolis, Pennsylvania – Closed

Italian, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5

LoBello’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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Dor-Stop Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Restaurants, Season 5

The 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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Nadine’s Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

American, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Nadine’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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Crystal Restaurant – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Closed

Mediterranean, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Crystal 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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Starlite Lounge – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 4

Pierogies 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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Kelly O’s Diner – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Breakfast, Diner, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Restaurants, Season 5

Kelly 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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