Kent Pfeiffer wanted to name his restaurant Eddy’s Westside Cafe, but he and his wife Diana settled on a name after a diner they loved in Louisiana — something involving a nice flower, a magnolia maybe. Magnolia Cafe opened in 1979 on Lake Austin Boulevard and expanded to South Congress in 1988. The story of
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American, Breakfast, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasThe Talanco family has been cooking BBQ in South Texas for four generations, and Texas Pride Barbecue in Adkins is the current expression of that tradition. The restaurant sits on East Loop 1604 about 20 miles southeast of San Antonio, and San Antonio locals have been making that drive for decades. Texas Pride appeared in
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Barbecue, Restaurants, Season 3, TexasJamaica Gates Caribbean Cuisine on West Arkansas Lane in Arlington has been bringing authentic Jamaican and Caribbean cooking to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since opening, serving jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, and the kind of from-scratch Caribbean food that makes the drive from Dallas or Fort Worth worth it. It appeared in Season 6, Episode
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Carribean, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasTwisted Root Burger Co. opened in Dallas’s Deep Ellum neighborhood in 2006, built around the same creative burger philosophy that Kuma’s Corner was developing simultaneously in Chicago: take a serious 10-ounce beef patty and build something unexpected on top of it. At Twisted Root the wildcard is game meat — venison, elk, bison, wild boar,
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Burgers, Dallas, Restaurants, Season 6, TexasPaul Eighmey moved from Buffalo to Austin in 1990 with a dream of owning a bar. In 1994 he and his partner Mark Supples opened Casino El Camino on East Sixth Street, named after Eighmey’s stage name from his punk rock days. For the first 14 years, the bar’s food was what Eighmey calls Sixth
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Austin, Burgers, Restaurants, Season 4, TexasThe Cove in San Antonio is a laundromat, car wash, and restaurant operating from the same building, which either sounds like the most impractical business concept imaginable or the most practical one depending on your perspective. It appeared in Season 4, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Totally Unexpected,” which aired August 18, 2008,
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American, Burgers, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 4, TexasChef Franson Nwaeze opened Chef Point Cafe inside a car wash in Watauga, Texas — a detail that made it exactly the kind of place Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was built to find. The “funky joint” framing was literal: a fine dining kitchen operating inside a functioning car wash, producing upscale comfort food and seafood
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Restaurants, Seafood, Season 6, TexasLouie’s on North Henderson Avenue in Dallas has been a Lower Greenville neighborhood fixture serving pizza, pub food, and Italian-American comfort food to a community of regulars who have been coming since the restaurant opened. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 13 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Family Favorites,” which aired March 23, 2009. Guy
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Dallas, Gastropub, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5, TexasDeWese’s Tip Top Café has been on Fredericksburg Road in San Antonio since 1938, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in the city. The official name is DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe, though it is widely known simply as the Tip Top. It appeared in Season 3, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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American, Comfort Food, Restaurants, San Antonio, Season 3, TexasMaria Corbalan started Taco Xpress in 1997 with her income tax refund, a little trailer, $500 cash, some dishes from her house, and a friend who painted the trailer real cute. For the first three months sales ran about $17 a day. Then a review in the Austin American-Statesman ran, and as Maria describes it:
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