Joe 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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