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Bro’s Cajun Cuisine – Nashville, Tennessee – Closed

Nashville, Restaurants, Season 10, Southern, Tennessee

Bro’s Cajun Cuisine appeared in Season 10, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Timeless,” which aired September 13, 2010, as a Nashville Cajun restaurant bringing the bold flavors of Louisiana cooking — crawfish étouffée, gumbo, jambalaya — to a city better known for its country music and hot chicken than for Gulf Coast cuisine. […]

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Arnold’s Country Kitchen – Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Restaurants, Season 9, Tennessee

Jack Arnold started his restaurant career as a dishwasher at age 12. He studied art at Vanderbilt University, managed the campus cafeteria, and in 1982 purchased a concrete block building on 8th Avenue South in Nashville’s Gulch neighborhood, installed a steam table and a tray line, and named it Arnold’s Country Kitchen. His son Kahlil

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Athens Family Restaurant – Nashville, Tennessee

Greek, Nashville, Restaurants, Season 9, Tennessee

Athens Family Restaurant on Franklin Pike in Nashville has been serving Greek-American diner food to the city since the Sarris family opened it, combining the Greek immigrant diner tradition — gyros, moussaka, and spanakopita sitting comfortably alongside eggs, pancakes, and burgers — with the kind of from-scratch approach that earns a Nashville neighborhood its loyal

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Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint – Nolensville, Tennessee

Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 9, Tennessee

In October 2006, Pat Martin walked past his favorite Mexican restaurant in Nolensville and found it had closed. He ran into the landlord on the spot, signed a lease on the 950-square-foot shack, and opened Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint with no restaurant experience and a consuming passion for West Tennessee whole hog barbecue he had learned

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Alcenia’s – Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Restaurants, Season 4, Tennessee

In 1996 BJ Chester-Tamayo’s only son Will, known as Go-Go, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Her whole world changed. She had always wanted to manufacture her mother’s preserves, so she took that dream and opened a restaurant named after her mother and her granddaughter, both named Alcenia. She never cooked growing up. She learned

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Uncle Lou’s Fried Chicken – Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Restaurants, Season 4, Tennessee

Uncle Lou’s Fried Chicken on Millbranch Road in Memphis has been serving the kind of fried chicken that makes people drive across town without explanation since Louis Martin opened it decades ago. The sweet and spicy sauce that goes on the bird is the item that has built a national reputation, and it was what

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Marlowe’s Ribs – Memphis, Tennessee

Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, Tennessee

Marlowe’s Ribs sits on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, which means it occupies a stretch of road that carries the weight of the city’s most famous son. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution for years, serving Memphis-style ribs and BBQ to locals and the Graceland tourist crowd alike, with the quality earning a loyal

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Cozy Corner – Memphis, Tennessee

Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, Tennessee

Ray Robinson opened Cozy Corner in Memphis in 1977 after years of perfecting his BBQ recipes at home in Colorado, where he and his wife Desiree had moved from Memphis before eventually returning. The Cornish game hen was on the menu from the beginning because, as Desiree explains it simply, “We liked it.” Cozy Corner

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Tom’s Bar-B-Q – Memphis, Tennessee

Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, Tennessee

Tom’s Bar-B-Q has been feeding Memphis from its New Getwell Road location for decades, operating as a classic neighborhood pit stop where the regulars know exactly what they’re getting and first-timers figure it out quickly. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 9 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “The Memphis BBQ Tour,” which aired May 26,

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Leonard’s Pit Barbecue – Memphis, Tennessee

Barbecue, Memphis, Restaurants, Season 3, Tennessee

In 1922 Leonard Heuberger traded a Model T Ford for a 7-stool sandwich stand in South Memphis and started selling chopped pork sandwiches for five cents. That modest beginning grew into what became, by the 1940s and 1950s, the world’s largest barbecue drive-in restaurant, with 20 car-hops working the canopied lot serving a daily parade

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