Monument Cafe on South Austin Avenue in Georgetown has been a Texas Hill Country institution since it opened in 1995, serving the kind of from-scratch American comfort food and diner classics that earn a small Texas town its destination dining reputation well beyond the community that surrounds it. It appeared in Season 14, Episode 1
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American, Comfort Food, Diner, Restaurants, Season 14, TexasPepe’s and Mito’s on Elm Street in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood has been serving authentic Mexican food to the Dallas community since it opened, building a menu around the slow-braised meats, house-made tortillas, and the traditional Mexican comfort food that earns a neighborhood restaurant its multigenerational loyal following in a city with a deep Mexican
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Dallas, Restaurants, Season 13, TexasMagnolia Pancake Haus on Embassy Oaks in San Antonio has been building a reputation as one of the city’s essential breakfast destinations since it opened, serving the kind of creative, generously portioned pancake and breakfast plates that earn a San Antonio community its go-to morning restaurant. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 11 of Diners,
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Breakfast, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasEl Bohio appeared in Season 12, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Global Comfort,” which aired October 24, 2011, as a San Antonio Puerto Rican restaurant serving the comfort food of the island — mofongo, pernil, pasteles, and the slow-cooked Caribbean dishes that are genuinely difficult to find in Texas. The restaurant has since
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Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasTaco Taco Cafe on East Hildebrand Avenue in San Antonio has been serving the breakfast taco that defines the city’s morning food culture since it opened — fresh tortillas, house-made fillings, and the kind of from-scratch Mexican breakfast that San Antonio does better than anywhere else in the country. It appeared in Season 12, Episode
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Mexican, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasBeto’s Comida Latina appeared in Season 12, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Latin Street Food,” which aired October 10, 2011, as a San Antonio Latin and Puerto Rican restaurant serving the Caribbean island cooking traditions that are genuinely rare in Texas — mofongo, pernil, and the comfort food of the Puerto Rican table
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Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasDough Pizzeria Napoletana on Blanco Road in San Antonio has been earning its Neapolitan pizza credentials since it opened, producing wood-fired pizza with the VPN-certified technique that requires proper dough fermentation, San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and an 800-plus-degree wood-fired oven to achieve the blistered, charred crust the style demands. It appeared in Season 11,
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Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 11, TexasMoroccan Bites on Evers Road in San Antonio has been bringing the fragrant, spice-driven cooking of Morocco to a city that had very little access to North African cuisine since it opened, serving tagines, couscous, bastilla, and the slow-cooked Moroccan comfort food traditions that are genuinely rare in Texas. It appeared in Season 12, Episode
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Mediterranean, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasBun ‘N’ Barrel on Austin Highway in San Antonio has been a city institution since it opened in 1950, serving the kind of honest Texas burgers and BBQ that earns a neighborhood restaurant its multigenerational loyal following. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 4 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Grillin’ and Smokin’,” which aired September
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Barbecue, Burgers, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 12, TexasThe Red Lion on South Shepherd Drive has been Houston’s go-to British pub since it opened, serving fish and chips, bangers and mash, scotch eggs, and the full British pub food canon alongside a deep selection of imported ales and lagers in a setting that transplanted Brits and anglophile Houstonians have been calling home for
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